The energy here is amazing. You know it if you've ever attended a small hardcore show.

@pimtool9351

10 ай бұрын

its also incredibly corny looking back at it.

@robinswiththestuds

6 ай бұрын

@@pimtool9351 Definitely not. Tap into your local hardcore scene and experience what the unity is all about

@magpie-yf8gf

4 ай бұрын

i can smell the cigarettes and b.o from reading this

@magpie-yf8gf

4 ай бұрын

@@aannddrreewwcosta when i went to see jeromes dream the whole place smelled like cigarettes and when we walked out everyone was smoking them

This video makes me feel nostalgic for a time I never lived and a gig I never attended

@nightmareformula

2 жыл бұрын

you literally described anemoia. Nostalgia from a time you never lived it

@increasement

2 жыл бұрын

they were the best of times, im ready to bring it back!

@digital.hamaki

2 жыл бұрын

@@nightmareformula i shit you not i just watched that video because emo gives me anemoia and then the next thing you know this vid is in my recommended

@alexbeattie6868

2 жыл бұрын

only the chosen few witnessed these events

@SxSxG666

2 жыл бұрын

@@alexbeattie6868 Saw them 1998 with With Love together with maybe 100 poeple in the crowd. Epic show!

this is the greatest footage of any band ever.

@konstantinjarkov

6 жыл бұрын

what about have heart final show?

@chuckyLarmed

6 жыл бұрын

Dillinger playing Destro's Secret & 43% Burnt at whatever that venue was is hard competition

@chuckyLarmed

5 жыл бұрын

SunflowerField kzread.info/dash/bejne/fmp6lbeDo72pk6g.html enjoy!

@GVilleAnarcho

5 жыл бұрын

The people-explosion from when they played Conduit during this set is still one of the bestest videos ever. This show seems like a really special place in time.

@greghelfrich41

3 жыл бұрын

@@chuckyLarmed agreed

this video captures everything that’s missing from modern hardcore shows nowadays

converge is the best band, this is the best song, great crowd, you really appreciate the drummer in this recording

@ObsidianContraption

8 ай бұрын

Converge rules! 🤘👾🤘

damn what a nice scene. decently-sized space, guys hanging out high af and/or moshing, guitarist up and says fuck it and does vocals, vocalist dribbles spit

How is there no comments about this drummer? This dude is awesome!

@therealfauxstradamus1135

Жыл бұрын

Watch his videos where he has a gopro strapped to his chest.

Before Kurt Ballou looked like my dad.

I was at this show... it was typical converge. Best band ever

@lillianwhite760

2 жыл бұрын

What year was this?

@glitterbug6236

Жыл бұрын

@@lillianwhite760 2001 :)

not once in my life have I ever seen a video as hardcore as this

@terminaldeity

2 жыл бұрын

This was a pretty typical show back in the late 90s. Shit was fucking wild.

@mavisevelyn618

2 жыл бұрын

@@terminaldeity it’s like, you can tell they’re popular in the underground because of how many people are there, but they’re not a mainstream band so they’re not playing on a stage but rather in a basement of some kind. It’s a perfect combination of popularity and obscurity. You kinda get that at shows nowadays. They’re still really fun but not quite the same. Then again I wouldn’t know, I wasn’t alive in the 90s lol.

@joelglanton6531

Жыл бұрын

@@mavisevelyn618 Only the biggest cities have a big enough scene to support this kind of show now. Now it's like either $40 tickets for a 1k person venue or it's a venue like this/house show but there's only like 30 people there who aren't affiliated with one of the bands.

If converge and lightning bolt did a small room floor show for their biggest fans it would be the greatest moment in history of hard music.

@terminaldeity

2 жыл бұрын

But that's already happened. You're watching a video of that happening.

i found this video when i was in the third grade and it shocked me. i had never seen people react to a band like that, i had never seen a band make people act in such a way. it blew my mind. that’s when i realized this was for me. that this was and is me

Seriously, one of the best bands ever existed!

@solacedayys

5 ай бұрын

fr

Insanity of a Converge gig at the time. Anything can happen. Pure chaos and great ol'hardcore/punkrock ways

Damn. That kid in the white shirt is high af.

@GVilleAnarcho

5 жыл бұрын

@ResetButton lol, jake also tried to get his ass up and the kid gets up and flicks them off. That was hilarious, fucking kid is wild'n

@madLphnt

3 жыл бұрын

He's at their show from 97' in kingston Pennsylvania too lol check it out. front row. Maybe he knows them or something kzread.info/dash/bejne/oZx1udR8pM_HqZM.html

Being a teenager in the late 90s nothing can top it, i was 21 here obsessed with as the sun sets we all went from salem ,ma to prodivence which was atleast once a month this night was amazing

The kid drumming at like 1:55 is my hero.

@chrismara4929

2 жыл бұрын

That’s 15 year old me. You should choose another hero though. What people should know is that it was roughly 500 degrees in there, and that’s why everybody looks exhausted.

@HalfdanMCMX

2 жыл бұрын

@@chrismara4929 No more heroes :(

Omg I remember shows like this back in the day. So fun. Kids these days missed this shit.

@travisfletcher900

2 жыл бұрын

Kids these days can’t do this shit, cuz their parents will sue. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@jakethemistakeRulez

2 жыл бұрын

@@travisfletcher900 Yeah you're right. It's sad. I was wondering a while back if shows like this exist anymore at all.

@ptwkk

2 жыл бұрын

@@jakethemistakeRulez Shows like this still happen

@DaisyHead666

Жыл бұрын

@@jakethemistakeRulez They definitely still do happen, its hard to find them though sadly.

That kid with the charles bronson youth attack shirt gets mad respect from me

This just shows how amazing converge is as a band. Kurt's guitar stopped working so he just starts moshing with the crowd n screaming with jakob.

This reminds me of a Converge show in Amsterdam at a tiny place (Volta) beginning of the 2000s. It fit like 100-150 people. Sold out. Mayhem. The show was with Shikari, Rise and Fall, Instil, Greyline, Dead Rivers, and - last minute addition - Bleeding Through! (Cause they started their Euro tour with Sick Of It All and Walls of Jericho the next day at the Melkweg in Amsterdam - squeezed in, for free, at the last moment)

@HalfdanMCMX

2 жыл бұрын

Shikari was the fucking shit

@iggysixx

2 жыл бұрын

@@HalfdanMCMX Definitely. As I recall, my face was melting ;)

This is the most hilarious live set I've ever seen lmao

@VioletAOP416

4 жыл бұрын

You like this, check out some early Dillinger Escape Plan shows. ‘97-‘04 were their best live years IMO

@jaredburke7461

Жыл бұрын

As The Sun Sets were just as good, if not weirder

@thinkingjack

Жыл бұрын

@@VioletAOP416 back when a Dillinger show was a hazard to your health and well being 😂

@Kekster3000

Жыл бұрын

Search for "THE CHARIOT PERTH 2011" this shit is hysterical

@FaithFallRepentGraceRepeat

10 ай бұрын

@@Kekster3000is that the show they did at someone’s house on top of the slanted roof? That was infamous & insane!

Converge has always been before their time which makes them timeless. I've been to hundreds of shows and seen thousands of bands. I'll still say to this day, the best show I've ever been to was the first time I saw Converge. Maybe '06? Cleveland, OH

3:20 lmao dude's trying to tie his shoes and everyone's fucking with him and untying them

@chemicalimbalance7030

Ай бұрын

There are many injustices I can never forgive. This is chief among them.

Wow, this looks like such a fucking good time! Wish I had the chance to see these guys back in their earlier days.

@jakethemistakeRulez

2 жыл бұрын

It was amazing. There used to be shows like this all the time. Idk what happened. Everyone are pussies now I guess.

Nothing will ever get better than this.

I miss this so much. What a time to see hardcore shows.

The saddest day, will be the day that Converge call it a day...;(

Saw Converge live in July 2019 and they had every bit as much energy as on this video! Awesome live band.

@SxSxG666

2 жыл бұрын

Says the one who haven't seen them 20 years before ;)

I love how Ben just gets up, and walks right ontop of the crowd, like he needed it

I miss this Converge.

gotta love a show with full ceiling lighting

this is the best video I've ever seen on KZread

Not only can I see the fun while watching this video but I feel it,GS cOnVeRgE 🖤🖤🖤

Love that Ben and Kurt just hop in the audience.

I worked the door at this show . It was Insane!!! In scrantont pa at sessions skatepark

@eugenelucas4701

2 жыл бұрын

Looks just like sessions when they played there.

I have never wanted to be in a hardcore band more than ever after watching this.

kinda wish id been born early enough to live this era of live music

i wish i could go back and time to be there

BRUTAL!!! Converge rules!!!

This footage is at the same level of Waiting room live..No problem

I am that girl in the green

@6Perdita6Durango6

6 жыл бұрын

Yureka Cash lol its literally me like in reality that is me

@Yurekacash

6 жыл бұрын

Jen Millis nice

@siey2

6 жыл бұрын

We're you the only girl there?

@6Perdita6Durango6

6 жыл бұрын

Sie Fi no you can see a few other women if you look, but obviously I certainly stood out

@chemicalimbalance7030

6 жыл бұрын

Yureka Cash that crowd surfer dude really blindsided you there. Did you feel that the next day?

This video reminded me that part of a ceiling fell on my head at a Converge show in 2003.

So awesome

Look at KB taking charge at 2:45 after his amp apparantly went fucked xD Converge are so cool! Love them forever... by the way, did ATSS also play at this gig? Would be such a badass bill!

@kevinpatrick8843

6 жыл бұрын

Deathkampdrone yes they did. As well as There Were Wires

Damn I mis those days.

Hell yeah!

Sick practice space!

Wow do you happen to have the full set? Have never seen this song from this show. Only Conduit on The Long Road Home DVD.

まさしくカオス！！

Do floor shows like this even exist anymore?

@xxmetalcorexmoneyxx

6 жыл бұрын

Rarely. But they do. Look up a video of full of hell playing sometime in 2013. Floor was packed and everyone was moshing or headbanging. Nobody had their phone out and if you did, it would get broken immediately. Shit looks intense. I also saw Revocation at a small ass bar not too long ago and the stage was small as fuck so they might as well have been on the floor. Show was just as crazy as this. People jumping off the stage and shit into people was crazy.

@danieljoel5203

6 жыл бұрын

Look at lightning bolt, though i don't think they do them anymore.

@TheEvilMonkeyZ

6 жыл бұрын

I promote some floor show at this pub near me called The White Lion, but they're never this crazy

@christopherfettes390

6 жыл бұрын

If memory serves, Dylan from Full of Hell would perform on the floor while the band was on stage back in their earlier days, but I haven't seen them do that in a long time. I'm seeing them this summer at a venue where the stage is not much higher than the club floor, we'll see what happens.

@benindc83

6 жыл бұрын

Daniel Joel i saw lightning bolt play a show exactly like this at mass art in boston circa 2005

3:41 Jacob punches the cymbal

this is killer gig

this is the way

I want this footage injected directly into my veins

2:45 kurt 's head hahaha

@lucamarin5421

3 жыл бұрын

2:24 :p jacob just let it flow

God Damn.

This looks more like circa 97-99

Ah, the good old days...

the best time to be alive

you know it's gonna go crazy when you see the raggedy green shirt in the thumbnail

Best ever

Watching this in 2020 makes me extremely sad ...the saddest year ever!

Omg I need this kinda of put more then I need air

Haha. I had that same Bane tree of life shirt back in the day. I miss these types of shows, VFWs, Library basements, people's houses... ...I feel a little too old and silly to be getting swept in a wave of sweaty arms flailing everywhere. Always wondered why the old dudes hung out in the back. Now I am that old dude.

It's like a zombie apocalypse

1:04 that dude in black

Description! As The Sun Sets practice space!? MORE AS THE SUN SETS FOOTAGE!!!!!!!!!

@xlifeiswarx

5 жыл бұрын

its hopefully in the works, h2k just needs to get all his footage to Hate5six.. scalpthepioneer.bandcamp.com

Title of the video says it all

лампово

There's always that one brave punk girl.

🤘🤘

Boston hardcore at it's finest

i'm nearly 40 and i couldn't go to shows like this anymore.... well, yeah i guess i could. fuck it, these were great times.

@creekandseminole

7 жыл бұрын

I'm almost 33 and if I still went to shows like this I'd most likely be standing near a wall leaning against it because I have bad knees. No more stage dives and high fives for this dude. lolz

@joeyclemenza7339

7 жыл бұрын

it's nuts to think that the kids in this video are all in their 30's now - and even 40's. i was 21, though not in this video...i wasn't in this video. still, going to these shows.. converge, dillinger, melvins, botch, cave-in, isis, pig destroyer..... those were only the heavyweights!!! I probably went to 200 shows from 1999 to 2004.... and they were all the best years of my life.

@m4dchico

7 жыл бұрын

I say still go. I turn 34 in January and next month I'm flying out to Sound & Fury in LA for the second year in a row. I've been going to shows like this since I was 15 and fractured my wrist at a Burn show as recently as a year and a half ago. Attending these shows now just means we've got better health insurance to pay the medical bills!

@raoulduke1661

6 жыл бұрын

Joey Clemenza it is nuts. This was such a good time in music to be a part of. I still go to the same shows but only once in a while do I lose my shit and end up front and center getting hurt and blowing my voice out. It keeps you young to get back in there occasionally. It does hurt more than it did when I was 20 though.

@gazzy_burns

6 жыл бұрын

I'd just be too old for this now....but I'd love to watch from a few metres back! 37..mehhhhh

w video nuff said

Good rock 'n' roll show

Another angle? On a classic show? Yes!

@David-sp9vd

7 жыл бұрын

Who knew there was a girl in a green shirt in the front!

@David-sp9vd

7 жыл бұрын

*dress.

@David-sp9vd

7 жыл бұрын

This is entirely different hardcore still sucks.

@David-sp9vd

7 жыл бұрын

Also the fuck that guy diving into her tits, harcore is even worse than it was before.

@m4dchico

7 жыл бұрын

Nobody cares. Consolidate your posts.

If anyone ever asked me what hardcore was I would point them to this video

this was almost every show in the northeastern united states from 1997-2004-ish. you kids missed the fuck out.

@terminaldeity

2 жыл бұрын

From PA, can confirm.

Kurt was like, um, a bar too early on that EVERY TIME YOU JUSTIFY riff?

I would imagine this is what the showers in prison sound like

2:22 ecstasy

kurt ballou is my fuckin hero

love how at 2:59 the bassist nearly clatters jacob with his headstock.

when he points the mic at the drummer >>>>

they need to send this to space for aliens to find

2:24 tasty

Poor Kurt. Did someone unplug his amp?

0:37 Dawson Leery

pretty sure im there lol i dont remember.. old school onlyville era

FUCKING GREAT

Who has the rest of this show!!?

Holy fucking fuck!

Group stimming

3:36 haha

the world before coronavirus

green girl is legend for standing up still after getting that head injury. also why the fuck she wearing a dress

@AW-qz4kk

7 жыл бұрын

Fernando Nagode she almost got hit it swung in front of her

@balgusha

6 жыл бұрын

lol, girls wearing dresses, you know )

@DJPANINO

6 жыл бұрын

When i saw the hit i felt pain for her. Ouch!

@6Perdita6Durango6

6 жыл бұрын

And yeah i was 16 and just weird so i cant really defend the outfit

@AW-qz4kk

11 ай бұрын

@@6Perdita6Durango6 lmao legend looking like a time traveler from the 50s who wanted to experience converge xD

does anybody know what song is being played from 2:20? either its an intro or sum kind of breakdown but it sounds sick af

@grandpunk99

4 ай бұрын

they are playing the saddest day on the whole video

@razberrysoda4887

4 ай бұрын

thank you

This doesn't have enough views!

epic fucking video