After nearly a decade, Converge’s Jacob Bannon still screams loud enough for the hearing impaired and angrily enough to cause an uprising. Most hardcore singers ruin their vocal chords and go soft after a few albums, but Bannon has been touring and turning out seething album after seething album with guitarist Kurt Ballou since 1991.

The band is successful in no small part because of Bannon’s ability to do what everyone has wanted to do at one time or another: unleash. He’s completely unrestrained on “You Fail Me”; the album is built around more than 30 minutes of him screaming dark and livid things. It’s kind of like “The Jerry Springer Show” set to music.

Ben Koller’s drums build up to each vocal outburst with mechanical precision and anchor the tempo with flawless repetition that speeds the album along. If I was going to imagine anything marching to the beat of this different drummer, it would be robotic and it would have an axe in its hand.

With Nate Newton rounding out the sound with bass guitar, the band makes hardcore punk-metal at its hardest. It’s hard to believe the "You Fail Me" is proof that Converge is certainly in no danger of going emo.