For other uses, see Killswitch Engage (disambiguation).
"Aftershock (band)" redirects here. For other uses, see Aftershock (disambiguation).
Killswitch Engage
Killswitch Engage performing in 2014
Background information
Origin
Westfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Genres
Metalcore
melodic metalcore
Discography
Killswitch Engage discography
Years active
1999 (1999)–present
Labels
Roadrunner
Ferret
Metal Blade
Columbia
Sony
Members
Mike D'Antonio
Adam Dutkiewicz
Joel Stroetzel
Jesse Leach
Justin Foley
Past members
Pete Cortese
Tom Gomes
Howard Jones
Website
killswitchengage.com
Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbanding of Overcast and Aftershock. Killswitch Engage's current lineup consists of vocalist Jesse Leach, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D'Antonio, and drummer Justin Foley. The band has released eight studio albums and three live performance albums. Their eighth studio album, Atonement, was released on August 16, 2019.
Killswitch Engage rose to fame with its 2004 release The End of Heartache, which peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold by the RIAA in December 2007 for over 500,000 shipments in the United States. The title track, "The End of Heartache", was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Metal Performance, and a live DVD titled (Set This) World Ablaze was released in 2005. Killswitch Engage has performed at festivals such as Soundwave Festival, Wacken Open Air, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Ozzfest, Download Festival, Rock on the Range, Rock am Ring, Mayhem Festival, Monsters of Rock, Pointfest, Knotfest and Heavy MTL. The band has sold over four million records in the U.S. and has been considered notable within the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, and has also been considered one of the earliest leading forces of the metalcore genre.[1]
^"'New Wave of American Heavy Metal' Book Documents Over 600 Bands". Blabbermouth.net. Archived from the original on May 21, 2008. Retrieved April 27, 2008.
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the metalcore band KillswitchEngage. He is also a vocalist for Times of Grace and The Weapon. Leach co-founded KillswitchEngage in 1999, but left the...
of the metalcore band KillswitchEngage. He is also a former member of the band Blood Has Been Shed along with KillswitchEngage's former lead singer, Howard...
metalcore band KillswitchEngage. It was released on May 21, 2002, through Roadrunner Records. Alive or Just Breathing was KillswitchEngage's first album...
producer, best known as the lead guitarist of the metalcore bands KillswitchEngage, Aftershock and Times of Grace, as well as the guitarist and co-lead...
known as the rhythm guitarist from the Massachusetts metalcore band KillswitchEngage. Stroetzel attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston but did...
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independent metal labels signing metalcore bands. This led to bands such as KillswitchEngage, All That Remains, Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Bullet for My Valentine...
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Dutkiewicz (KillswitchEngage) and Jesse Leach (KillswitchEngage, The Empire Shall Fall, and Seemless) while guitarist Joel Stroetzel (KillswitchEngage), bassist...
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