This is the title track from Converge´s 2009 album Axe To Fall. In an interview with Metalsucks, Jacob Bannon spoke about the lyrical themes of the song:

The song “Axe to Fall” is a song I wrote about in my own life and my own perception of battling depression, battling a lot of… I don’t want to call it self-loathing, but battling the demons that pull me down psychologically. I think we all have them in some way. We all have dark places that we go for a variety of reasons in our lives, and we use music and art as a doorway out of those things. The song is very much about trying to split that aspect of myself from myself.