Such was the reach of Jane Doe that, inevitably, bands saw this new blueprint and did all they could to ape it. Creating music is a really personal thing and people can discuss and dissect it, but they’ll never get close to what it really means.” So it was strange to see, but also at that point I realised really quickly I didn’t want to read about my band from other people. People just didn’t talk about punk or hardcore. “It was either death metal bands, like the early Relapse bands, or it was Cradle Of Filth everywhere. “I used to buy music magazines all the time, and for the longest time that world just wouldn’t acknowledge our scene,” Jacob remembers. It was so perfect that, to the shock and awe of everyone involved, even the metal media had to take notice. From the opening chaotic 79-second blast of Concubine to the closing title-track’s nightmarish 11+ minutes, the album beautifully melds pure punk rock aggression, musical dexterity and heartbreaking emotional honesty to breathtaking effect. Jane Doe was released on September 4, 2001, and immediately sent shockwaves through the punk, hardcore and metal underground. It was an odd feeling to be in this room in pitch black, alone. “I recall recording some vocals in the dark at Fort Apache studio on the stage where they did these live sessions. “I was certainly embracing the emotional chaos,” he tells us. I think going through that and reacting the way I did back then, that was how I found my creative process.”Īs Converge went in to record Jane Doe, Jacob revelled in this process of self-discovery, submerging himself in the bleak feelings that were flowing from his mind. It’s funny: lyrically it’s a pretty put-together album, but at the time I felt like I was just going off on tangents. To own that emotion, that rough place I was in, and make sense of it. When I was writing the Jane… lyrics, I had some stuff going on that wasn’t positive, and I was just trying to find myself. So when I would write, I would write about my life and the things I was going through – it was a way to help me through those things. “When I was first starting to write songs as a teenager, I didn’t feel like I had a fully formed idea of the world that I could put in a bottle and write lyrics about. “One of the things I liked in bands that connected with me was that personal connection,” Jacob says. That was a really important part of that record.”Īs the band began to write, Jacob began to piece together what would become one of Jane Doe’s most essential characteristics: the unflinchingly personal lyrics, giving you a brutally honest perspective of a relationship breakdown. ![]() I think addressing that and having to go through that brought the four of us together. ![]() ![]() The dynamic on one hand was great – the four of us were really evolving and growing as a unit, and we were really happy about that – but there was another thing where we were not happy that our second guitarist just wasn’t as present as we wanted him to be. It weighed on us, it was a stress, there was tension there. ![]() We were writing more together, we rehearsed more together, and when we went in to record it really felt more like a quartet kind of thing. “Aaron is still a friend of ours but we were gelling a bit more as a group without him. “At that time, Aaron was still in the band,” nods Jacob. Newton was a vegetarian for several years, before he returned to eating seafood.A youthful Converge (left to right): Kurt Ballou, Jacob Bannon, Nate Newton, Aaron Dalbec, Ben Koller In 2018, Newton joined Cave In after the death of bassist/vocalist Caleb Scofield. In late 2013, Newton was recruited by Cavalera Conspiracy to contribute on bass guitar for their third studio album. Jesuit later disbanded in 1999, allowing Newton to make Converge his main focus. In 1998, Converge bassist Stephen Brodsky left the band and was replaced by Newton, who initially joined the band as a part-time member while he was still active in another band, Jesuit. Newton has also been a guitarist and vocalist in Jesuit and bassist in Cavalera Conspiracy. He is the bassist and backing vocalist of the hardcore punk band Converge and the rock band Cave In, and plays guitar and sings in Old Man Gloom and Doomriders. Nate Newton (born October 9, 1975) is an American musician.
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