You might call them the Magnificent Seven. After many months spent collaborating over a distance of several thousand miles, this summer the authors of the one of the year’s most inventive albums convened at God City Studio, in Salem, Massachusetts, to supervise the final mixes of their new creation. Gathered around the console were the four members of Converge – vocalist Jacob Bannon, bassist Nate Newton, drummer Ben Koller and guitarist Kurt Ballou – the metal and folk singer-songwriter Chelsea Wolfe, her bandmate and writing partner Ben Chisholm, and Stephen Brodsky, the guitarist with New England underground legends Cave In. Comprised of 11 songs, the album in question is titled Bloodmoon: I, credited to Converge and Chelsea Wolfe. Like all albums that you will hear this...