Converge have made their new track “Dark Horse” available online here.
It is the first song to be made available from the groups upcoming new album “Axe To Fall”, which will see an October 20th release date through Epitaph. In related news, more details have surfaced on the various guest appearances that mark the aforementioned album, here’s how the track listing now looks:
01 - “Dark Horse”
02 - “Reap What You Sow”
03 - “Axe To Fall”
04 - “Effigy” (feat. Cave In’s Steve Brodsky on lead guitar, Adam McGrath on guitar, J.R. Connors on drums)
05 - “Worms Will Feed”
06 - “Wishing Well” (feat. Disfear’s Ulf Cederlund on lead guitar/backing vocals)
07 - “Damages”
08 - “Losing Battle”
09 - “Dead Beat”
10 - “Cutter” (feat. John Pettibone (ex-Himsa) on backing vocals)
11 - “Slave Driver”
12 - “Cruel Bloom” (feat. Neurosis’ Steve Von Till on backing vocals)
13 - “Wretched World” (feat. Genghis Tron’s Mookie Singerman on lead vocals/synths, Michael Sochynsky on synths and Hamilton Jordan on guitars)
Further guest appearances from The Red Chord drummer Brad Fickeisen, Blacklisted frontman George Hirsch and Trivikrama Dasa of 108 are all also said to be on unspecified tracks of the effort as well.
In addition, band frontman Jacob Bannon has confirmed that all members of Cave In perform on the record alongside the band. When asked how it pertains to the groups once planned Verge-In project, he had to the following to say:
"All of Cave In perform on the album.
All of Genghis Tron also perform on the album.
Both along WITH us. Many of the other contributors have been announced as well. So yes, this album is essentially the collaborative idea that we had previously, taken to greater extremes."
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