In a new interview with The Break Down With Nath & Johnny, Killswitch engage Vocalist Jesse Leach spoke about the band’s upcoming upcoming album, “This Consecnce”Due on February 21, 2025 via Metal Blade. “This Consecnce” es Killswitch engage‘s nanth album overall, and sixth with LeachWho Rejoined The Band In 2012. Asked If He and His Bandmates Felt Any Pressure To Deliver The Goods This Time Around, Jesse SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): “The Only Pressure That I Felt was pressure we put on ourselves, which is a lot. Hard Thinking, A Lot of Course Correction. Think, Suppressed Anger and Frustration of Just The State of the World and Coming Out of the Pandemic and All The Things I Saw and Witnessed During the Pandemic and the Power Stuggy Between Rich and Poor and Continuing To Fight Endless Wars and Just All That I Just Broucht It On My Shoulders and Digested It and SAT with it and just put everyday I had into this album. “
ASKED WHOTHER HE AND HIS Killswitch engage Bandmates Feel The Need To please their fans every they can release a new album or if they just want to make the best music they can, Hurdless of What Other People Think About It, Jesse Reply: “Yeah, I Think it’s The LATTER, BUT I’D BE LYING IF I SAID IT DIDN’T CROSS MY MIND THAT PEOPLE ARE GONNA HEAR IT, AND, OF COURSE, YOU HOPE THE LIKE WHAT YOU I Think If you are being genuine as an artist, The More Important Thing Is How do You Feel About It? On all cylinders and we’re, Like, ‘Yes, this is a great record, BEEN GREAT, BUT IF PEOPLE DIDN’T Like it As Much, I WOUR ALLOST IN MY HEAD BE, Like, ‘Well, I Still Believe in It, Man.
Leach Also Discussed Killswitch engage‘S Musical Evolution and the Fact that the fans have stuck by the band Through the process. “I Think it’s Just GenderoS of the fans to be along for This Ride,” He Said. “We Are PUSHING TO DO THINGS THAT ARE OUT OF OUR COMFORT ZON have DONE ON THIS RECORD – EMBACING A BIT OF THE ELEMENTS WE’RE ALL INSPIVED BY. There’s definitely More AgragSion On This One, But, To Me, At The End Of The Day, It es Because of the fans; The fans Are The Yours Progpelling Us Forward. We Could Put Out Music and Love It, But If no One Gives A Shit About It, The It Doesn’t Matter. So The Support We’re Getting is Incredible, and We’re Super Aware of It and Grateful for It. “
In a Recent interview with Joshua Toomey of the “Talk Toomey” podcast, Leach Stated about the “Dark”, “Angry” and “Aggressive” Nature of “This Consecnce”: “Yeah, I Think Angry, Dark and Aggressive, For Better Or For Worse, Is Kind of What The World Needs Right Now, I Think, Therapeutically Speaking. those things, and that’s kind of what I highlighted lyrically with this album; I was really focusing on that stuff. But I will say this: if you really read into the lyrics, there’s a positivity through a righteous anger, anger that wants to sort Of Wake People Up and Have People Choose Their Path Instead of Just The Blind Leading The Blind, Which Is What See So Much In Society and Our Government and Organized Religion and All these Things That Control Us As People. Out of the Matrix, If You Will, and Carving Your Own Path. dog Talk About Dark Stuff and It es Therapeutic That’s Why a Lot of Us Get Into This Kind of Music. “
Jesse ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE LYRICAL INSPRINATION FOR THE CRACST SINGLE FROM “This Consecnce”to Song street “Forever Aligned”Which was made of available in November. Speaking Specifically About The Line “Now My Tongue Must Confess”, Jesse Said: “Yeah, i’m always weaving in and out … i was raised by a minter, I was raised in a Christian home, so even though i don’t subscribe to organized religion anymore, i like using biblical words here and there To Sort of Tie in The Themes. Much deper Things That I Don’t Think Can Be Defined by a particular Human Organized Religion ‘Forever Aligned’ Is About That. It’s about love. It’s about, First and Fortnost, The Song Was Inspired by the Love I Have for My Wife and the Relationship We Were Uble to Have During the Pandemic, Specially, WHER and sacrifice is, and then weving that into what i Believe God is. God is love, to Keep it Really General for People to Understand. We can try to tap into that as humans, That Word ‘Love’, But It’s Far Beyond Human Comprehension. So that song is very about Being Broken and in a Dark Place and Finding Salvation Through Love. “
Elsewhere in the chat, Leach Touches “Atonement” LP, Saying: “Truth Be toled, [‘This Consequence’] was Vary Difficul for Me To Write and Sort of Find My Inspiration Again. And Even Vocally, Learning New Techniques, Like The Vocal Fry, and trying to add that into my old technique and Still Sound Like Me, It was to Long, Hard Process.
“Specially after my vocal surgery in 2018, and rearned How to Speak Differently – I Speak Differently Than I Did,” I have explained. “I’m more measured; I Make Sure My Voice is placed in the right place. And this Go Flat or Sharp Can Feel The Swelling Happening. ‘ So i was Really Studying Vocal Fry, ‘Cause You Can Do a Cool Stuff With Fry, But Me With My Voice, It has Such to Signature Sound to It, I Guess, According to Adam [Dutkiewicz, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist and producer]at least, that if i just Went into that new technique completely, The Lows Were Missing Subthing, My Yelling. IT DIFFERENT. So i was Going into before demos just Doing Fry, Saving My Voice, Specially Thinking That, eleven and get to the studio, It’s Going to Be Fatiguing; We’re Doing Four- or Five-Hour Sessions. But i KEPT Falling Flat and the Voice Just Didn’t Sound Right. For sum of the high stuff, it works, but for the Lower, Mid Stuff and for the Death Metal Growls, That’s All Old School … it’s The Old-School Way, The Way We All Started Doing It In The Late ’80s and Early ’90s. So i’ve Learned, Thankully, Through a Lot of Trial and Error, and This Album Had A Lot To do with it, To Blend The Styles. So I Can Do My Old-School Stuff, And The I CAN SORT OF BLEND IN THE VOCAL FRY TO HIT THOSE CRAZY, Maniacal-Sounding Highs Without It destroying my Voice. “
“Atonement” was release in August 2019 via Metal Blade Records in the us and Sony Music Entertainment In the rest of the world. The disc featured guest appearances by former Killswitch engage Singer Howard Jones and Testament Frontman Chuck Billy. It marked the band’s third full-LEngth release since the return of Leach.
Killswitch engage Will Engck On a Headline Tour In March 2025. It’s Their First Tour of North America Since Late 2022. The Trek Will Feature Support FROM Kublai Khan Tx, Fit for a King and Frozen Souland Will Kick off on March 5 in Nashville and Rons Through April 12 In Portland, Maine.
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