"Converge used to call themselves “hardcore kids with leftover Slayer riffs,” and that hasn’t fully described them since solidifying the lineup of J Bannon, Kurt Ballou, Nate Netwon, and Ben Koller that made every album from 2001’s Jane Doe onwards, but it was a pretty perfect descriptor back in the ’90s when Bannon and Ballou were still working their way through different lineups and finding their sound. Converge would go on to become one of the most definitive metal/punk bands of the 21st century, one with a sound too diverse to tie to any one genre, but they fit somewhat neatly into the burgeoning metalcore movement when they released their first three ’90s records."
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