Killswitch Engage will return to the road for a June 2026 U.S. headline tour with support from Machine Head, Iron Reagan and Havok. It will be the band's first U.S. tour since its 2025 Summer of Loud run. The tour kicks off June 3 in Detroit, Michigan, and runs through June 27 in San Francisco, California,... Continue Reading →
Summer of Loud. Photos by Greg Maki.
American metalcore standout Killswitch Engage will release its long-awaited new album "This Consequence" on Feb. 21, 2025, via Metal Blade Records. It will be the band's first new studio album since 2019's "Atonement." The band also has shared the video for the record's first single, "Forever Aligned," available below. "'Forever Aligned' is one of those songs... Continue Reading →
Paradise Slaves, a new band featuring former members of 36 Crazyfists and Diecast, have released their debut single, "A Fever to Defeat." Watch the lyric video below. The Boston-by-way-of-Anchorage quartet cements a union between vocalist Brock Lindow (36 Crazyfists), solo artist and guitarist Tyler Stroetzel, guitarist Jon Kita (Diecast), bassist Brad Horion (Diecast) and drummer Ryan Manning (Pentagram, Blitzkid). Their debut album will be released in 2025 via Spinefarm Records.... Continue Reading →
Photos by Greg Maki
Photos by Greg Maki
Killswitch Engage has released a live performance video of an acoustic version of the song "We Carry On." The track was recorded while the members were in quarantine. The original appears on the band's 2016-released album "Incarnate." Watch and listen below. As guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz says in the intro of the video, the band had planned to perform this song during the now-postponed... Continue Reading →
Photos by Greg Maki
Photos by Greg Maki
Review by Greg Maki-----The story of Killswitch Engage is remarkable and unique: Record subgenre-defining album (2002’s “Alive or Just Breathing”); replace vocalist after his sudden departure; achieve even greater success, flying the flag of metalcore while peers quietly fade away; replace second vocalist with first vocalist; continue busting out heavy, catchy, impassioned tunes; do it... Continue Reading →
