What happened that night was enrapturing, thrilling, so it was no surprise that Converge, Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chrisholm and Steve Brodsky willingly managed to keep the flame lit for years to come, with doors wide open in all fronts for possible future endeavors. The phenomenon came to be referred to as "Blood Moon", and after it shook the festival on that spring night in 2016, nothing was ever known about it. The Dutch stage was ready to witness a performance for the ages and footage of the event shows it did. It was the perfect scenario for a magical reinterpretation of Converge classics in which Chelsea Wolfe and Ben Chrisholm would take the Salem collective's music to somewhere beyond, but that wouldn’t have been entirely possible without the addition of another key element: the ever-present, ever-charming Steve Brodsky, OG Converge man and friendest of friends. The same grounds that gave birth to Emma Ruth Rundle collaborative affairs with sludge troopers Thou had also witnessed Mariner, the child of Swedish post metal masters Cult of Luna and certified banshee Julie Christmas, being performed in the flesh. It all culminated with one of those things that can only happen in Tilburg's Roadburn festival. As ties strengthened and new emotional connections were built between them, the tour reached an end. Needless to say, Wolfe didn't think for a second she would miss the chance either. In other words: sometimes, you just have to let it happen.Ĭonverge had a feeling during that tour, a strong one, a powerful desire of dragging the likes of Ben Chrisholm, Chelsea Wolfe's eternal partner in crime, to make him become one with the entity they have been part of for more than 30 years now. Little is known about the invisible strings that tie our minds and hearts to one another in the presence of the unknown, and not every chosen path, and the million possibilities that stem from every twist of fate, can be explained by reason or logic. Stars aligned during an European tour in 2016 in the way that cosmic forces send entire planets into black holes and galaxies die. Review Summary: “The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of th"CONVERGE!
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