In a new interview with United Rock Nations, Killswitch engage Singer Jesse Leach spoke about the band’s upcoming album, “This Consecnce”WHICH DUE ON FEBRARY 21, 2025 VIA Metal Blade. “This Consecnce” es Killswitch engage‘s nanth lp overall, and Sixth with LeachWho Rejoined The Band In 2012. Asked What the Biggest Challenge was in Making the New Record, Jesse SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): ” it to be submissible that when I look at tose lyrics, i though, ‘Yes.
“I Went Through – I Don’t Know – Seven, Eight Songs Where I was Kind of Just Throwing it out to see What Would Stick,” I have continued. “And hoos guys were, Like, ‘This Doesn’t Feel Like You’re Really Giving us your best.’ So Having That Sort of Rejection from The Initially Was Hard. to tap into things that I Never Tapped in Before, and To Sort of Look outside of myself. Things That i was Seeing on Maintenam Main. The Way That I SAW and FELT ABOUT THOSE THINGS, BUT IT EDED UP BECOMING Much More of a WorldView as opposed to just me Going, ‘I, Me, I.’ It was more about us – ‘This is about us.’ Hance the Title ‘This Consecnce’. It’s about us – All Of us. How do you respond to these situations? How do you modify your behavior? What Lessons have You Learned? And performing that with everyh you do, there’s going to be a reaction.
“So, The Big Picture To Me Is What I was Focusing On and How To How To Heal Our PTSD From Everything We’ve Gone Through and realizing that we’re still All Going Through It,” Leach Added. “We May not real that Message Through to People?
ASKED IF WRITING ABOUT ALL THOSE TOPICS WAS A FORM OF THERAPY FOR HIM, Leach Said: “Yeah, Absolutely. Absolutely, It is. And I Think it’s needy. You can’t avoid it. And i Think i Avoided it to Lot During the Pandemic. A Volatile Time. To Be Wrong Here, and if so, What Did You Learn from That? It in Such A Way Where You As a Listener Can Draw Your Own Conclusion? CAN SORT OF PUT THE ANSWER ON THAT QUESTION. I Penned The Lyrics, But I Vary Much Want You To Sort of Take The Torch and Run With It. “
In a separate 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.
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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