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Following the band’s February release of Love Is Not Enough, Converge have confirmed that a second new full‑length album of 2026, titled Hum Of Hurt, is scheduled for release on June 5th via Epitaph Records. You can check out the title track below.
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Posted on April 1st 2026, 11:05a.m.

Amazing split between 2 Screamo/Emoviolence bands, Letterbombs from Finland and Heaven Through Violence from Boston, USA. Two different

For Gianmaria ‘Jommy’ Puledda, a dream has finally come to fruition with Spread Eagle. Though the band has had several great shredders in the past, Jommy has put his stamp on the band, starring across Spread Eagle’s forthcoming record, 2026’s The Brutal Divine. In addition to the new record, Spread Eagle has a range of tour dates and festival appearances planned throughout 2026. Beyond that, Jommy is working on solo music and music for his other project, Screaming Shadows. It’s with this in mind that during a break in the action, Jommy dialed in with ClassicRockHistory.com to talk origins, joining

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Oh, it feels like a million years ago now, but way back in January, I wrote this one up as one of our (meaning, in this instance: “my”) most anticipated releases of 2026, and here it is, in my grubby little hands…

It’s been almost four years since Consume / Deny / Repent, which was a smashing full-length for these DC death / grind / hardcore bruisers, a year-ender then and one I still return to with some frequency. So does No Peace hold up to the expectations both I and its elder sibling have lain upon it?

Short answer: Yes, for sure.

Longer answer: Also, yes, but with more words. No Peace picks up the trail where Consume / Deny / Repent left off, which is to say that it’s not a massive stylistic deviation from what No/Mas has done so far, although it sharpens some points to a finer edge and sands down some other edges to more of a blunt instrument. The production is thicker, a little punchier, with Roger Rivadeneira’s formidable blast-furnace growl sitting snugly atop John Letzkus’ guitars and the powerful push of Henry Everitt and Joe Vasta. That increased stoutness allows these riffs to benefit from both sides of the coin, swinging easily between razor-sharp tremolo-picked death metal runs and swinging beatdown heft. Everitt’s rhythms bounce between blastbeats, hardcore pummeling, and thrashing fury within songs that rarely push past the two-minute mark.

From the machine-gun staccato chug of “Manic” through the whip-tight crush of “Blood Soaked Soil” and the album-highlight “Abolition,” featuring guest vocals by Gobi Longobardi of Violencia, to the closing punch of the title track and “Circle Of Sacrifice,” this latest Mas is 12 tracks in 21 minutes, all savage grinding violence, a tightly wound face-breaking fistfight in aural form, but one wise enough to embed enough monster musical hooks to keep even the non-grinders engaged. There’s even a dash of melodeath in “Leech” for those who require a little more palatability in their sonic destruction, and a Kirk Hammett-esque wah-soaked thrash solo in “Circle Of Sacrifice” for the shred ‘heads.

Through a decade and a handful of splits, an EP, and now two full-lengths, No/Mas has only gotten stronger and stronger, and No Peace is the culmination of that journey (though let us all hope they aren’t done yet). Filled with riffs and fury, with a stouter overall sound and the same pissed-off energy, it’s a total rager, and so, yeah, like I said… I was looking forward to it, and now it’s here, and it’s absolutely worthy.

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Darker Waves have announced the line-up for 2026, and it’s set to be a celebration of alternative music in all its forms.

On headlining duty will be The Smashing Pumpkins, who sit up top alongside Morrissey.

Then further down, you will find Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, The Damned, Cold Cave, Marky Ramone, Mariachi El Bronx, Manic Street Preachers, Soft Cell, Gary Numan, Silversun Pickups and many more.

It’s set to be a wide-ranging affair, celebrating the past, present, and future of so many of these legendary acts.

Set to take place on November 14 at Huntington Beach, CA, tickets will be available on pre-sale from April 02 from DarkerWavesFest.com

The Smashing Pumpkins recently joined forces with none other than YUNGBLUD on a new version of his track ‘Zombie’. That sounds a lot like this:

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After a hiatus Assert are back with their seventh album ‘The Great Resist‘, bursting with thirteen powerful new

The Wound, from Spanish post hardcore group The Distance, consists of nine songs with honest lyrics that are based

Converge may have only just released a new record, but they have already announced the details of a follow-up.

Titled ‘Hum Of Hurt’, the record will be released on June 05 via Epitaph. It comes hot on the heels of ‘Love Is Not Enough’ which was released back in February.

Here is how the tracklisting is looking:

1. Slip the Noose
2. Doom in Bloom
3. It Only Gets Worse
4. Detonator
5. I Won’t Let You Go
6. It’s Not Up To Us
7. Dream Debris
8. It Used to Matter
9. Hum of Hurt
10. Nothing is Over

And the artwork looks like this:

The band have also shared the title track, and it finds them toying with tension in a way only they can. Rollicking drums and quivering guitar tones build and build till they reach breaking point, as vocalist Jacob Bannon bellows and barks the sort of words that admit to life not turning out the way he expected and having to deal with those consequences. It’s a mournful, emotional listen, but no less bludgeoning and belligerent.

One of the best to ever do it is continuing their hot streak.

Converge are set to hit the road alongside Poison The Well and some other very special bands across the US later this month. Here are the dates.

APRIL

02 – CLEVELAND House Of Blues *
03 – CHICAGO Concord Music Hall *
04 – PONTIAC Crofoot *
05 – DAYTON Hidden Gem *
06 – NEW KENSINGTON Preserving Underground *
07 – TORONTO History *
08 – MONTREAL Theatre Beanfield *
09 – WORCESTER The Palladium *
10 – NEW YORK Knockdown Center *
11 – PHILADELPHIA The Fillmore *
12 – BALTIMORE Nevermore Hall *

MAY

07 – DENVER Summit ^
09 – AUSTIN Stubb’s Outdoors ^
10 – HOUSTON House Of Blues ^
12 – MESA Nile Theater ^
13 – LOS ANGELES Belasco Theater ^
15 – ANAHEIM House Of Blues ^
16 – SAN DIEGO The Observatory North Park ^
17 – SAN FRANCISCO The Regency Ballroom ^

* Poison The Well, Spy & Balmora
^ Poison The Well, The Armed & The Barbarians Of California

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