First Look: Convert – ‘Saves’

Convert Hometown: Milwaukee, WI Album: Saves, out now via Triple Eye Industries  Welcome to the Church of Convert! Come one, come all to the theater of horrors, where we put life up to a funhouse mirror and give you the best synth punk around. We welcome the weary of mind, body, or spirit to our industrialized praise band, though we will not be lifting the Lord’s name on high. Indeed, we here aim to dive deeper into the night for, like anyone who adored horror as a child, it is only by peering into the blackest of darkness that we can appreciate the light. Birthed out of the fertile Milwaukee punk scene, Convert wanted to layer on their love of goth, industrial, and post-punk into the members’ collective past in punk and hardcore. The result is a synth punk masterclass that leans hard into...

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