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"My dad smashed the tape of Number Of The Beast: ‘I’m forbidding Devil’s music in my house!’ That only made it more appealing.” How Jesse Leach went from "Flanders kid" to future metalcore icon

How Jesse Leach went from preacher's son to metalcore icon with Killswitch Engage

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"The vocals make David Vincent sound like Sabrina Carpenter." This Consequence is the heaviest Killswitch Engage album in over a decade. And it absolutely slaps

Killswitch Engage go rawer and heavier than they have in some time, led by an impassioned Jesse Leach

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"People characterised both of our bands as being arrogant and cocky." How Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium helped revitalise metal in 2005

How Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine ushered in metal's next generation

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The 12 best new metal songs you need to hear right now

Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage and Electric Callboy lead a stacked week of brilliant new metal singles. Plus, vote for your favourite!

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Millennial metalheads, rejoice! Killswitch Engage announce US shows with fellow metalcore champions Shadows Fall

Fit For A King and Boundaries will support the New England heavyweights during their four dates together in May

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New Killswitch Engage album is “angry, dark and aggressive” because that’s “what the world needs right now”, says Jesse Leach

“I think a lot of us can relate to frustration, anger, betrayal, all those things, and that’s kind of what I highlighted lyrically with this album”

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“Our schedules have caused this to take longer than expected, thanks for bearing with us”: Former Killswitch Engage bandmates Howard Jones and Adam D’s new project has a name, album almost finished

The former metalcore cohorts have been hard at work on their first album together since 2009

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Listen to the first Killswitch Engage song in five years, Forever Aligned

The metalcore mavens have also announced ninth album This Consequence, due next year

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"We will be playing new songs." Killswitch Engage announce 2025 North American tour with Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King and Frozen Soul

The kings of metalcore will hit the road next Spring!

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Watch Killswitch Engage reunite with ex-singer Howard Jones at emotional homecoming show in Massachusetts

Howard joined his old bandmates for the performance of three songs on Saturday night

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“For a pissed-off, disillusioned teenager that hated the government, Banned In D.C. was the moment I found my tribe”: The 10 best Bad Brains songs according to Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach

Killswitch Engage singer and Bad Brains uber-fan Jesse Leach’s ultimate 10-track Bad Brain playlist

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“Killswitch has always been strong and positive. We wanted something a little darker, a bit more personal, spiritual almost”: how Killswitch Engage reinvented themselves with their divisive self-titled fifth album

The story of Killswitch Engage’s controversial self-titled album – released 15 years ago today

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"I was like, 'This stuff is Undertaker music!'" WWE World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest on the many ways that heavy metal changed his life

From discovering Metallica and Ozzy as a kid to blasting In Flames, Soilwork and Motionless In White in the gym, Damian Priest is a metalhead through and through

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“It is by far the most difficult album I’ve ever worked on”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach gives update on long-awaited ninth record

Killswitch Engage’s vocalist has reflected on making the band’s first album in five years, saying he sees “the distant light at the end of this long tunnel”

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Watch Killswitch Engage’s full headline set at Bloodstock festival 2023

Metalcore leaders Killswitch Engage played 90 minutes stacked with bangers at UK metal fest Bloodstock in August. Watch the show in full here.

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Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam D and ex-singer Howard Jones have nearly finished making an album together: “More to come.”

Former Killswitch Engage singer Howard Jones is “finishing vocals” for his collaboration with his ex-bandmate

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"It was the right time and the right place, with the right words." How In Due Time and the return of Jesse Leach saved Killswitch Engage

With In Due Time, Killswitch not only produced a song that perfectly encapsulated the return of Jesse Leach, but a new anthem to get their careers back on track

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Killswitch Engage's stunning Bloodstock headline set was a moment two decades in the making

Killswitch Engage made the most of their first outdoor UK festival headline set with buckets of bangers, a beefed up stage show and some brilliantly daft stage banter

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Roadrunner Records held a “funeral” for nu metal in 2002 in honour of Killswitch Engage's Alive Or Just Breathing album and the footage is hilarious

To promote Killswitch Engage’s Alive Or Just Breathing, Roadrunner Records Australia put turntables and baseball caps in a coffin and buried it on camera

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Jesse Leach: "After Alive Or Just Breathing came out, I was not in a great place"

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks new music, who he'd pick for his Roadrunner United team and the greatest hardcore song ever written

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Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach says this is the best hardcore song ever written

"That song encapsulates why I love hardcore and punk"

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Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks tour safety, metal roots, mental health and more

A historic moment in metalcore took place in 2019 when Killswitch Engage released “The Signal Fire,” a true fire-breathing track sung by lead singer Jesse Leach with a very special guest: Howard Jones.

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