For 13 years, Boston's own innovative metallic hardcore heavyweights known simply as Coverge have charged, evolved and pushed the boundaries of their abrasive sonic art while never forsaking their favininess, vision or integrity like a shark that dies is it ever stops swimming, Converge has constantly struggled to push the envelope of the ever-shifting definition of "hardcore" while release a number of albums - some would say "landmark" - that followed a caustic, sometimes painful, but always engaging musical evolution.