Track Listing

1. The Saddest Day
2. Forsaken
3. Albatross
4. Dead
5. Shingles
6. Buried But Breathing
7. Farewell Note To This City
8. Color Me Blood Red
9. For You (Live)
10. Antithesis (Live)
11. Homesong (Live)
12. Love As Arson

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #113306 in Music
• Brand: Converge
• Released on: 2005-03-22
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Enhanced, Original recording remastered
• Dimensions: .25 pounds

Customer Reviews

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I look behind me just to make sure I'm alone every time I listen to this

I'd buy this CD alone for Farewell Note To This City, but...Dead, The Saddest Day, Albatross, For You, I could go on

Buy it, and then buy Jane Doe, and then try not to jump out a window

Amazing? Of course! Necessary..........?
The music on this CD is more professional, more polished, and definitely more pummeling than the previous incarnation. But is that better?! Perhaps that depends on how you feel about the original.

I've poured over this album, and the re-release of When Forever Comes Crashing, non-stop since they were both released two days ago. In the opinion of this reviewer, WFCC desperately needed the face-lift. God knows the sound quality on that album was wretched and had to be overhauled- I couldn't even listen to it and enjoy it. But Petitioning an Empty Sky has always been great, no concerns with sound quality at all. The Saddest Day, Forsaken, Color Me Blood Red, the album is littered with classic Converge tracks. Are they improved on this album? Yes and no. Saddest Day re-mastered is unbelievable. That track just leaps off the CD and kicks your ass. However, in the case of Color Me Blood Red, I think the new version is worse- the guitar riffs that I've always loved in that song are almost completely eclipsed by the bass, drums, and vocals.

HOWEVER that's my only complaint about this CD. Would I buy it again? Oh heck yeah. I'd probably pay double just to add this beauty to my collection. The new interior liner notes are chock-full of awesome art by Aaron Turner of Isis, as well as an absolutely kick-ass slip cover, picturing the awesome red painted devil guy you probably saw at the top of this page.

As a bonus, the last song is an alternate version of Love As Arson. God what a fantastic track.

So the bottom line is this. Converge fans: buy this, but keep your original as well. I've been listening to Petitioning for so long I'm happy to have new versions to rock out to as well, and most Converge fans are likely to feel the same way.

It's Converge, What Else Needs To Be Said?
Review by Mike Watson:

The long awaited Converge reissues have FINALLY surfaced, and Converge fanatics nation, and even worldwide are rejoicing as there is even more need to own Converge merchandise. The newly re-done CDs have been given new life through the mastering genius of Godcity Studios and the brilliant art-work of frontman Jacob Bannon. The initial records of both albums, although ground breaking and amazing albums, were both fairly poorly recorded and mastered leaving fans with an unquenched thirst for the clear quality of the music.

Converge has quenched that thirst and more with the newly re-released albums. Both albums have been given complete new life and sound astonishing compared to their original releases. The sound quality on the re-issues is leaps and bounds beyond the original pressings, making the albums far more enjoyable and easily listenable. The most noticeable difference is on Petitioning the Empty Sky. Petitioning was originally recorded fairly empty and powerless, the re-issue however blows the listener away, re-mastered in a way that things in-audible on the original release are now made very apparent.

The Converge re-issues are an absolute must have for any Converge fan.