Converge announce new EU/UK headline dates for November 2026
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Share video for “It Used To Matter”
Second album of 2026:
Hum of Hurt out now via Deathwish / Epitaph
Tour poster
Today, Converge have announced details of an EU/UK tour for autumn 2026. The dates follow a packed-out summer live run and festival appearances including a closing set at Manchester’s Outbreak Festival, which Kerrang! described as “an untouchable way to end an almost perfect day”. All of this comes in the wake of their widely acclaimed new album Hum of Hurt, which followed Love Is Not Enough as the band’s second full-length release of 2026, and saw them on receiving end of emphatic plaudits from writers and fans alike.
The new dates will see Converge tour across Germany, The Netherlands, France and the UK this November, with support from Sanguisugabogg, Blackbraid, and Pupil Slicer. The run will culminate in a London show at Electric Brixton. Full dates below.
Tickets will go on sale at 10AM BST on Friday 10th July HERE.
12.11 – München, DE – Backstage
13.11 – Karlsruhe, DE – Substage
14.11 – Eindhoven, NL – Helldorado (No Blackbraid)
15.11 – Strasbourg, FR – La Laiterie
16.11 – Paris, FR – Bataclan
18.11 – Leeds, UK – Project House
19.11 – Bristol, UK – Electric Bristol
20.11 – Glasgow, UK – SWG3
21.11 – Nottingham, UK – Rock City
22.11 – London, UK – Electric Brixton
To mark the announcement, the band have also shared a new video for the dark album track “It Used To Matter”. The uncanny cinematic perfectly encapsulates the tone and foreboding nature of the monolithic instrumental track, which is at once tense and poignant.
Watch / share the video for “It Used To Matter” HERE
You feel it before you hear it. And once you hear it, you can’t unhear it. A low, persistent noise throbbing in the background. Scientists say it registers between 30 and 40 hertz. It’s been heard in Ipswich, Massachusetts; Auckland, New Zealand; and Windsor, Ontario. It has haunted the population of Taos, New Mexico, for decades. It’s been linked to suicides in the UK. Not everyone can hear it. No one knows where it’s coming from. They call it The Hum.
Converge have taken this mysterious real-world phenomenon and reimagined it as a physical manifestation of human suffering. Then an idea struck. “What if ‘The Hum’ is the culmination of all the pain in the world, creating an audible signal across the universe?” vocalist and lyricist Jacob Bannon posits. “Something noticeable to others operating on a similar emotional plane.”
Like its predecessor, Hum of Hurt offers a bleak yet empathetic assessment of the human condition and its ongoing deterioration. With this album, the songs are more raw and exposed. “When we came together to write, we ended up with a wealth of material,” Bannon says. “As work progressed we realized we had created two separate albums, and treated them as such.”
Hum of Hurt is distinct from Love Is Not Enough, but just as volatile and potent. “It’s not a sequel,” Bannon explains. “The unifying musical idea early on was, ‘Let’s make a noise rock album.’ But we never really did. The first one wasn’t. This one touches on that spirit, but it’s much more dynamic than that descriptor. To me, it leans more into being an emotional hardcore album, while Love Is Not Enough feels more metal leaning album. In the end, we simply gave creative birth to another Converge record with its own unique identity and character.”
Hum of Hurt was recorded and mixed by Kurt Ballou at God City in Salem, Massachusetts, with engineering assistance from Zach Weeks. Bannon and renowned UK artist Thomas Hooper collaborated on the album artwork.
Stream / pick up Hum of Hurt HERE and see Converge on tour this autumn.
Photo by Nick Fancher
