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"I Can Tell You About Pain" is a single by American metalcore band Converge. It was released on July 25, 2017, as a 7-inch vinyl record via Epitaph and Deathwish, Inc.,[2][3] with the much longer track "Eve" as a B-side. The music video for the song "I Can Tell You About Pain" was directed by Tony Wolski.[4]

"I Can Tell You About Pain"
Single by Converge
from the album The Dusk in Us
B-side	"Eve"
Released	July 25, 2017 (2017-07-25)
Genre	Hardcore punk metalcore post-metal sludge metal
Length	10:00
Label	Epitaph Deathwish
Songwriter(s)	Jacob Bannon Kurt Ballou Nate Newton Ben Koller [1]
Producer(s)	Kurt Ballou
Converge singles chronology
"'Converge / Napalm Death'" (2012) "I Can Tell You About Pain" (2017) "Endless Arrow" (2020)

Music and critical reception

Consequence of Sound's Randall Colburn wrote: ""Eve" serves as a contrast to "I Can Tell You About Pain", as its seven-plus minutes incorporate group chants and menacing synths into its crashing guitars and pummeling percussion, giving the song an eerie epicness."[2] Stereogum writer Tom Breihan described "Eve" as "a monstrous epic", and stated: "Both songs are punishing in very different ways."[4] Pitchfork critic Saby Reyes-Kulkarni thought that "I Can Tell You About Pain"'s production style "almost leans in a black metal direction, giving the song a deceptively quick-and-dirty sound." Reyes-Kulkarni further stated: "This ability to switch from surgically precise to blunt and back again is what keeps Converge continually gripping."[5]

Andy Cush of Spin wrote: "The former ["I Can Tell You About Pain"] is quick and raw, finding the band in full-on firebreathing madness mode; the latter ["Eve"] is an unusually moody epic that clocks in at nearly eight minutes long."[3] Graham Hartmann from Loudwire described "Eve" as "a more experimental piece of Converge's catalogue", stating: "Focusing on doom and drone characteristics, Converge stretch out the expansive track in a way that feels truly inspired. Kurt Ballou's production is top-notch, as always, building a colossal wall of sound for "Eve" that remains dense even in its softest moments."[6] Treble Zine wrote that the former track is "an intense, rhythmically jerky noise-rock burner" while the latter "has some common traits with Oakland sludge innovators Neurosis, with whom the band is touring this summer."[7]

Accolades

Publication	Accolade	Rank	Ref.
Loudwire	25 Best Metal Songs of 2017	10	[8]
SPIN	The 25 Best Metal Songs of 2017	8	[9]

Track listing

All songs written by Converge.

1. "I Can Tell You About Pain" – 2:24
2. "Eve" – 7:36

Personnel

Converge

• Jacob Bannon – vocals, lyrics
• Kurt Ballou – guitars, vocals, keyboards, production
• Nate Newton – bass
• Ben Koller – drums, percussion

References

External links

• I Can Tell You About Pain at Discogs (list of releases)

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