Converge Announce Second 2026 Album 'Hum of Hurt': Tracklist, Single, and June Release Date
Converge don't wait. They already released Love Is Not Enough back in February, and now they've announced a second full-length for 2026. Hum of Hurt drops June 5 on Deathwish Inc./Epitaph Records — and if you thought the band was spent for the year, you weren't paying attention.
Two Albums, One Session
Both Love Is Not Enough and Hum of Hurt came out of the same recording sessions at guitarist Kurt Ballou's God City Studio in Salem, Massachusetts. The band had more material than one record could hold and decided — correctly — not to compress it.
Where Love Is Not Enough leaned harder into the band's metal side, vocalist Jacob Bannon has described Hum of Hurt as the rawer, more emotionally exposed counterpart. The Epitaph press copy is blunt about it: "the songs are more raw and exposed." That's not marketing language for a band like Converge — that's a warning.
The album's concept circles around "The Hum," a real phenomenon — an unexplained low-frequency sound heard globally by a small percentage of people. Bannon reframes it as something more elemental: the accumulated pain of the world becoming audible. The artwork, a collaboration between Bannon and UK artist Thomas Hooper, visualizes this as an EKG signal fusing with seismography — a heartbeat dissolving into seismic noise.
This is peak Converge thinking. Dense concept, simple image, maximum weight.
Tracklist: Hum of Hurt
Slip the Noose
Doom in Bloom
It Only Gets Worse
Detonator
I Won't Let You Go
It's Not Up To Us
Dream Debris
It Used to Matter
Hum of Hurt
Nothing Is Over
Ten tracks. The first single and title track is out now, and it showcases something the band has always deployed when the moment calls for it — three-vocalist interplay that turns the song into a collision rather than a performance.
European Tour in June
Converge will be in Europe when the album drops, including festival appearances and club shows with Heriot, Boneflower, and Crouch as support on select dates:
June 25 — Ysselsteyn, Netherlands — Jera On Air
June 25 — Rennes, France — Superbowl of Hardcore
June 27 — Manchester, UK — Outbreak Fest
June 28 — Antwerp, Belgium — Zappa
June 29 — Cologne, Germany — Essigfabrik
June 30 — Berlin, Germany — SO36
No North American dates have been announced yet. Given the two-album cycle, expect something stateside before the year's out.
What to Expect From Hum of Hurt
The title track gives a clear signal. The three-vocalist dynamic — Bannon plus contributions from other band members — keeps the song from settling into any single emotional register. There's grief in it. There's also something harder underneath. If you've been listening to Converge since Jane Doe or You Fail Me, the texture here will feel familiar, but the restraint is different. This is not a band trying to out-aggressive itself. They're cutting to the bone.
Bannon's concept — the aggregated pain of the world rendered audible — is ambitious to the point of grandiosity when described in a press release. But Converge has always been able to make grand themes feel physically real in the music. Whether Hum of Hurt carries that weight across ten tracks won't be clear until June 5. The title track alone suggests they're not overreaching.
The artwork, developed with UK artist Thomas Hooper, continues the band's tradition of treating album packaging as an extension of the work itself. The EKG-meets-seismograph visual isn't metaphor for metaphor's sake — it's a direct representation of the album's core premise. That kind of alignment between art, concept, and sound is increasingly rare.
The Bigger Picture
Two full-lengths in the same calendar year, both recorded in the same sessions, both distinct enough to stand on their own — this is either a band that couldn't be stopped or one that's been building toward something it needed to say in full. With Converge, the answer is always the same: both.
For context: the last time Converge put out new studio material before this year was the Bloodmoon: I collaboration with Chelsea Wolfe in 2021. That was a deliberate, patient record. Love Is Not Enough and Hum of Hurt feel like the opposite energy — an outpouring rather than a construction. Jacob Bannon, guitarist Kurt Ballou, bassist Nate Newton, and drummer Ben Koller have been one of the most consistently serious creative units in heavy music for thirty years. This two-album cycle is them operating without a ceiling.
Love Is Not Enough has been out six weeks. Hum of Hurt drops in two months. The band that made Jane Doe didn't slow down. They doubled down.
