Salem’s long-running Converge dropped their new single “Love Is Not Enough” exactly when everyone expected it—right after a week of cryptic teasers built around Roman numerals and shifting visual fragments.
The track hit streaming services today and immediately confirmed what those clues had been pointing toward: the song is also the title track of the band’s next full-length album, their first major release since “The Dusk in Us” in 2017 and the collaborative “Bloodmoon: I” in 2021.
The rollout mirrors the hints fans have been dissecting for days, so nothing about this release feels accidental. “Love Is Not Enough” opens with sharp, jagged guitars and rhythmic cuts that leave no breathing room.
Jacob Bannon’s voice tears in early—raw, direct, and sitting right at the surface of the mix. The production leans into that uneven edge, sounding both clean and scuffed at once, which lines up with recent comments from the band about having a large batch of new material ready.
Lyrically, the track locks into emotional strain and the kind of relationship fractures that Converge have never shied away from. The structure stays tight and quick, more of a strike than an introduction. As a lead single, it functions like a signal flare rather than a warm-up, hinting at the tone of the full record without overexplaining anything.
The full track list for “Love Is Not Enough” lays out the direction more plainly, with songs titled “Bad Faith”, “Distract And Divide”, “To Feel Something”, “Beyond Repair”, “Amon Amok”, “Force Meets Presence”, “Gilded Cage”, “Make Me Forget You”, and “We Were Never The Same”. The album lands on February 13 through Epitaph, following an early on-air premiere of the title track on SiriusXM.
Teasers earlier this week suggested something significant was coming, and the timing lines up with the band’s upcoming Saddest Day Festival appearance in Boston this December.
With tour dates already announced through mid-2026, listeners are expecting more new songs to surface onstage as the next chapter fully opens. Can’t wait!
Converge tour dates 2025–2026
December 13, 2025 — Roadrunner, Boston, MA
June 25, 2026 — Jera On Air, Ysselsteyn, Netherlands
June 27, 2026 — Outbreak Festival, Manchester, UK
July 1, 2026 — Obscene Extreme Festival, Trutnov, Czechia
July 4, 2026 — Resurrection Fest, Viveiro, Spain
