In 2000, the Philadelphia-based hardcore label Too Damn Hype released a tribute album to The Cure titled Disintegrate. Opening with Cave In's take on Plainsong, the opening song on The Cure's 1989 album Disintegration, the album featured contributions from Chimaira, Voice Of Reason, Where Fear And Weapons Meet, Together We Fall and more, with the biggest talking point for hardcore fans being Converge's interpretation of the title track from Disintegration.
Converge frontman Jacob Bannon also contributed the album's artwork, and in a recent interview with The Quietus, he revealed that The Cure had a seismic effect on his life and his band's music.
Bannon admits in the interview that, although many of his friends in high school raved about Disintegration he had decided, without listening to the record, that it wasn't for him.
"That record was gushed over at the time, and I was like, Nah, I can’t do it," he said. "And I didn’t give it a chance. I judged it."
