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10.0
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10.0 |
The Skinny
On Converge's tenth studio album, the band enlist goth-rock artist Chelsea Wolfe to create a record unlike anything they've produced before
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10.0
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10.0 |
Kerrang!
Does Bloodmoon: I sound much like Converge? Only occasionally. Could it be their best album to date nevertheless? Quite possibly
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10.0
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10.0 |
Sputnik Music (staff)
Blood Moon I is, truly, an essential album for 2021, and may all celestial bodies allow me this infatuated omen: the beginning of something very special
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10.0
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10.0 |
The Guardian
The band’s long-awaited collaboration with dark rocker Wolfe is slower and more melodic than their usual albums, yet even heavier
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9.1
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A.V. Club
Converge and friends find an alternative to ripping your face off on Bloodmoon
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9.0
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All Music
Even at its most melodic - the opulent goth pop stunners "Coil" and "Blood Dawn" - Bloodmoon: I bristles with nervy unease. That particular brand of agitation is textbook Converge, but with Brodsky's inventive arrangements and Wolfe's ethereal soprano added to the arsenal, that innate disquiet is glorious to behold
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PopMatters
Metalcore pioneers Converge unite with Chelsea Wolfe and Cave In’s Stephen Brodsky to craft a brooding work of goth-inflected metal with Bloodmoon: I
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8.0
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8.0 |
Mojo
A collaboration where each sulphurous element perfectly complements the others. Print edition only
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8.0
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Northern Transmissions
The act’s most immersive, cohesive collaboration yet
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7.0
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7.0 |
Punk News
While not immediately as grabbing as previous Converge albums, with repeated listens it does warm up. You just wouldn't think with this expanded line up, you'd be comparing a new Converge record to other bands
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6.6
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6.6 |
Beats Per Minute
There is certainly potential here, but this first Bloodmoon record definitely feels like a testing ground. There is an uncertainty in tone, and a clashing of sensibilities that is thrilling at times, awkward at others
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Pitchfork
After 30 years together, the hardcore dynamos hit a nadir. Their collaborative album with Chelsea Wolfe and Stephen Brodsky is exhausting and predictable, a ceaseless barrage of the banal
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