Anna Dave Bertram of Sweden’s Access: Rock recently conducted an interview with vocalist Jesse Leach of Massachusetts metallers Killswitch Engage. You can now watch the chat below.
Killswitch Engage‘s new album, Disarm The Descent, will be released on April 2 via Roadrunner Records. The follow-up to Killswitch Engage‘s 2009’s self-titled release is the band’s first album with original singer Jesse Leach at the vocal helm since 2002’s now-classic, genre-defining Alive or Just Breathing. Leach returned to the band in January 2012 after a decade-long absence. The artwork for the new CD was created by D’Antonio.
You can now pre-order Killswitch Engage‘s forthcoming album ’Disarm The Descent’ on iTunes. As well as the standard 12 track version you can also pre-order ’Disarm The Descent’ Special Edition. If you pre-order the Special Edition, which comes with 2 bonus live tracks, you will also get an instant download of the new single ‘In Due Time.’
Click here to pre-order Disarm the Descent special edition & get new single In Due Time right now.
Killswitch Engage will be touring the UK this May & ‘Disarm The Descent’ will be on general release in the UK on April 1st! Dates & locations are listed below.
The lyric video for In Due Time the new single from Massachusetts metallers Killswitch Engage — singer Jesse Leach, guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D’Antonio, guitarist Joel Stroetzel and drummer Justin Foley — can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The song comes off the band’s forthcoming album, Disarm The Descent, which will be released on April 2 via Roadrunner Records.
Disarm The Descent was mixed by veteran British producer Andy Sneap, who has previously worked with Megadeth, Testament, Exodus, Accept, Arch Enemy and Nevermore.
“[The recording process] was great,” Leach told Loudwire. “I came off tour I was filled with energy, ready to go, we knocked out a bunch of stuff. I had joined the band, the record was there, we’re on tour so I really didn’t have time to write. I took the past two months not only recording but writing so I’m there with an idea, being in the other room writing and going to Adam saying, ‘Here’s my idea I just wrote, what do you think?’ So there’s real spontaneity some of the songs that we just finished up. I had maybe five or six solid ideas when I came off tour and the rest had to be developed as we were recording it. It was exciting but at the same time tough because for me I’m digging deep down into my emotions and my psyche trying to come up with stuff that is honest and emotive and relevant, hopefully for the listener. It’s tiring but well worth, anything that’s worth achieving you got to suffer a little bit for it. I think mentally and spiritually and a little bit physically we were suffering but all of that made for an amazing record that I’m really proud of.”
He added, “The music is definitely the fastest Killswitch record ever. It’s very heavy but still maintains the signature Killswitch hooky, melodic stuff there, too. There’s definitely melody attached, but I pulled out some new styles vocally, yelling and screaming and growling and layers and it sounds massive.”
Asked what the vibe has been working on the new record with the other members, Leach said, “These guys have welcomed me back with open arms and just very encouraging and digging the stuff that I’m doing and these guys were just like, ‘Wow! We’re really excited. We feel like it’s been a long time since we’ve been this excited about music,’ and that just makes me feel amazing. It makes me feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing.”
Track Listing:
1) The Hell In Me”
2) Beyond the Flames”
3) New Awakening”
4) In Due Time”
5) A Tribute to the Fallen”
6) The Turning Point”
7) All That We Have”
8) You Don’t Bleed for Me”
9) The Call”
10) No End in Sight”
11) Always”
12) Time Will Not Remain”
Upcoming Shows:
Feb 23 Soundwave Festival, Brisbane, Australia
Feb 24 Soundwave Festival, Sydney, Australia
Mar 01 Soundwave Festival, Melbourne, Australia
Mar 02 Soundwave Festival, Adelaide, Australia
Mar 04 Soundwave Festival, Perth, Australia
Mar 07 Hawaiian Brians, Honolulu, HI
Mar 16 William a Egan Civic and Convention Center, Anchorage, AK
Apr 28 Groezrock, Meerhout, Belgium
May 02 – Manchester, Ritz, U.K
May 03 – Glasgow, ABC, U.K
May 04 – Birmingham, Institute, U.K
May 05 – London, Shepherds Bush Empire, U.K
May 06 – Cardiff, University, U.K
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