L'impressionnante liste de guests d'après Wikipedia:
Personnel
Converge
* Jacob Bannon – vocals, lyrics, visuals
* Kurt Ballou – guitars, vocals
* Nate Newton – bass, vocals
* Ben Koller – drums
Guest musicians[40]
* Steve Brodsky (Cave In)
* Adam McGrath (Cave In)
* John-Robert Connors (Cave In, Doomriders)
* Uffe Cederlund (Disfear, ex-Entombed)
* George Hirsch (Blacklisted)[41]
* Brad Fickeisen (The Red Chord)[42]
* Hamilton Jordan (Genghis Tron)[43]
* Mookie Singerman (Genghis Tron)
* John Pettibone (Undertow, Himsa)
* Steve Von Till (Neurosis)
* Sean Martin (ex-Hatebreed, Cage)[4]
Guest Performance Descriptions
* "Reap What You Sow" features ex-Hatebreed Sean Martin performing lead guitar.[4]
* "Axe To Fall" features Blacklisted's George Hirsch providing backing vocals.
* "Effigy" features Cave In's Steve Brodsky on lead guitar, Adam McGrath providing additional guitar and J.R. Connors performing drums.
* "Wishing Well" features Disfear's Uffe Cederlund performing lead guitar and backing vocals.
* "Cutter" features John Pettibone on backing vocals.
* "Cruel Bloom" features Neurosis' Steve Von Till providing lead vocals.
* "Wretched World" features Genghis Tron’s Mookie Singerman providing lead vocals and Hamilton Jordon providing backing guitar, The Red Chord's Brad Fickeisen and Cave In's J.R. Connors on backing drums.[44]
Ainsi que la petite histoire du leak début octobre:
Internet leak
On October 4, 2009 a digitally watermarked advance copy of Axe to Fall had leaked onto the internet. The watermark was linked to the advance copy given to Shaun Hand, a staff member of the music news and reviews website MetalSucks.net. Converge posted a number of Twitter messages regarding the leak, one of which read, "Special thanks to Shaun Hand at Metal Sucks for leaking our album," and another one was posted shortly thereafter directed at MetalSucks' Twitter account stating, "have fun with that."[35][36] The source of an album leak is rarely discovered or publicly announced. Converge's method of dealing with their album leaking, referred to as "street justice" by Every Time I Die and Jamey Jasta, avoided a costly lawsuit yet still inflicted damages upon MetalSucks by means of viral negative publicity.[37][38] The staff at MetalSucks issued a formal apology, stating that the leak was completely unintentional and the first incident since the website's inception.[39] They went on to say:
“ We are also deeply embarrassed and regretful. We would never knowingly betray the trust of any band or label. And if you've been following this site, you know that we're huge fans of Converge and Axe to Fall. That this happened with a band and record we hold in such high regard makes the whole thing especially upsetting to us. [...] And for what's it's worth, we'd like to re-emphasize that we think that Axe to Fall is a terrific album, and absolutely worth PAYING FOR when it is released on October 20. ”
—Axl, Vince, and Everyone at MetalSucks[39]
