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Long Road Home

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This is an enjoyable DVD for the most part. But it suffers from different videos of the same songs. I wish every video was for a different song. I grew somewhat tired of watching repeating renditions of Color Me Blood Red, When Forever Comes Crashing, and My Unsaid Everything. Overall, I did like this DVD, just wish it had a more vast song selection. But the footage of entire sets, the downpour video, and the first version of Color Me Blood Red made it worthwhile. The blazing highlight though, was the video of the set they played in some guy's basement, classic. It also gives you a genuine close-up of the utter madness Drummer Ben Koller is capable of. Everytime I see Converge live, he is always the main event for me. I've never seen a man go buck wild on a kit like he can. For everything it lacks, theres still something to make up for it, so yeah, this is a decent DVD to own. Drop a dollar on it why don't ya. And see what made this band legends in the Live show department.

And the downpour video, best video ever made, should have won an award, a great thing to watch at Thanksgiving or any family gathering.

Wow... This is an awesome DVD, a very large collection of live footage, mostly bootlegged (yes, the sound quality is sometimes lacking). I think the idea of a bootleg collection is perfect for this very raw band which always performs WITH the crowd, not just FOR the crowd. My only wish is that it had been postponed, so their two newest music videos would be included. Full of old performances with various line-ups, 3 shows in their entirety, and a music video... This is an excellent package, definately worth the price for a fan. If you haven't seen this brutal band live, this will give you a good idea. For example, the singer climbing a mass of thrashing bodies piled on top of eachother during "Conduit." Awesome.

What follows here is an extremely sloppy DVD that could have turned out as one of the finest memoirs of the Converge live shows. If the footage isn't grainy and poorly shot then the sound is so appaling that everything degenerates into a mash-up of white noise and occaisional snare drums. There are some videos are truly magnificent - "Conduit" and "Colour Me Blood Red" from the early half of the DVD are both magnificent. The DVD fails because it's comprised of footage that the fans have shot - a nice idea in itself, but it's just crap. The song selections are a little bizzare. There a surprising ammount of songs from early releases such as "Caring and Killing" and not enough from the later, more finely honed, releases like "Petitioning.." "When Forever Comes Crashing" and "Jane Doe".

The DVD cannot be faulted for content. Three complete live sets as a bonus and well over 4 hours in total. For the time that Converge invested in selecting footage and making the DVD, I'm surprised at how extremely below par it is.

Avoid unless you've never seen Converge live, are obsessed, or have money to blow.

Unloved and Weeded out is necessary for any and all Converge fan. It includes new material such as the two first songs 'Downpour' and 'Flowers and Razorwire' which are all done beautiful. I mention this two songs because they embody Converge's ability to go from a bone crushing, chaotic, melodic song, and right into a beautiful, hearfelt song and still sound like it couldn't have been done better. Their is also a rerecording of 'Homesong' which was my only complaint with the whole album, and a minor complaint at that. On the original recording of 'Homesong' on the album Petioning the Empty Sky, Kurt Ballou stops the song to fix his gitar string and Jacob Bannon manages to cut his head on the mic stand, all the conversation during this period of time is recorded and was very amusing, but sadly these events did not transpire during the rerecording. Every rerecording of their old songs are much tighter, cleaner, brighter, heavy, and better sounding. The rerecording of 'The High Cost of Playing God' almost sent me to the hospital it hit so heavy. They also include two live songs off their album The Poacher Diaries, which exemplify Converge's live talent. If you ever wished you could here a small collection of Converge's best songs rerecorded to perfection and some new material that shows promise for the future of hardcore and metal, this is the album that does that. It is also one of the best examples of this band's true talent and true capabilities, and a great CD who wants to hear Converge at their best hour. This new friends and rerecored old will deffianetly keep me going to Converge's next release, but if this is any indication for the future, buckle your settbelts ladies any gents because this is gonna be one wild ride!

That dude in the boston show. Hes looks really out of place, and nate and kurt laughed at him during the saddest day??? funny stuff

Anyways, the dvd is pretty cool. I wish it had more full concerts. Quality is not that great, but still well worth buying.

Ill be honest, I only have their cd Jane Doe at the moment, but mostly because of this dvd im gonna try to get a couple more of there albums because lets face it, Converge are worth it, these guys are f***ing machines and their live preformances are clearly spectacular!!! I love how the first song on the main side is done with a artistic overtone to it, but i honestly prefer the camera angle that was shown during the Germany showning because in that one the person recording the footage did an exellent job of focusing on each member of the band to the point you could see the fingerings that guitarist is doing and get a great idea of what the drummer is doing visually. you also get to see how they would look from the audiences stand point in that one and its pretty funny how it takes a couple of songs for the specators to actually start moving! but thats only a small unimportant fact in the whole sceam of things, because Converge plays all their songs from Jane Doe you see in this dvd perfectly and all these other songs are amazing and i imagine are done perfectly too. a great buy, and a good way to advertise more of their material!

this isnt' any new stuff from converge, its all the stuff that they did between "petitioning the empty sky" and "when forever comes crashing" (well the first 7 tracks at least) my favorite song on the disc has to be either jacobs ladder or downpour...just to make the disc even better than it is...converge puts on a couple demos from their release "when forever..." and 2 live tracks from the poacher diaries split with ANb, no converge fan should be without this!