12 Hell-Raising Tracks To P*ss People Off With

6. Converge €“ Homewrecker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0-FCmDcb0Q When it comes to screams, few can pop neck-veins quite like Converge's frontman Jacob Bannon. If you're not used to it, Bannon's piercing screeches and high-pitch growls will chew you up and spit you out, leaving you writhing about on the floor as he unloads the contents of his lungs into the next snarling, animalistic expulsion of aggression. You'll find no let-off in the accompanying barrage of sound either. Converge throw time signatures around like confetti, changing their sound as they shift up and down between them as if completely unfazed by the very notion of structure. Still, you wont find a mess of sonic influences desperately propelled by rage, while Converge inject so much into their songs, it's all held together by a smart, thoughtful narrative. Homewrecker appears on the band's fourth studio album, Jane Doe. It's a song that explodes in the first moment and doesn't let up until its final seconds, fusing elements of math-metal, thrash and hardcore into every chorus and verse. Bannon's screams are particularly cutting here, with lines like "No love! No hope!" standing out as some the few audible lines on the album, so nearly drowned out by Ben Koller's superbly measured percussion. The whole production begs for frenzied pits filled with the kind of limb-flailing and head-thrashing that you'd expect from only the best.