 Artist: Killswitch Engage: mp3 download Genre(s): Metal: Alternative Metal Discography:  As Daylight Dies Year: 2006 Tracks: 11  The End Of Heartache Year: 2004 Tracks: 12  Alive Or Just Breathing Year: 2002 Tracks: 12  Killswitch Engage Year: 2000 Tracks: 9 The 4 that came together and created Killswitch Engage already had strong fan followings. Mike D'Antonio (bass) was at unitary time the loss leader and lead sum songster of Overcast, the fabled underground metal grouping. When Overcast tear in 1998, D'Antonio sought for a year to find the right combination of players to fuse hardcore and metallic element with tonal pattern. During the summer of 1999, D'Antonio connected with Adam Dutkiewitz, wHO was the drummer for Aftershock, and Joel Stroetzel, Aftershock's guitar player. Jesse Leach, vocalist for Corrin and Nothing Stays Gold, joined on, and the tetrad took the name Killswitch Engage. Killswitch Engage made their debut by opening for In Flames on circuit. The Ferret label heard and liked the combination of ferociousness, sophistication, and breathtaking originality that the chemical group produced, and signed them. Ferret released Killswitch Engage's self-titled debut album in June 2000 and it like a shot began capturing rave reviews. The grouping lays out its heavy riffs mixed with both telling vocals and screaming vocals that handle a reach from low-pitched death growls to the higher-pitched hyaena screams. Stroetzel developed a guitar beat that gallops, and the others maintain up as they combine elements of hardcore and metallic element and ferret in their melody. They get along on with an vividness that does non give in. During 2001, the banding recorded "Numbered Days" for WERS' Nasty Habits live CD, a compilation with bands such as God Forbid, Haste, Unearth, and Poison the Well. Also in 2001, Killswitch Engage signed with Roadrunner Records and started recording their second full album, Alive or Just Breathing, at the Zing Studio in Westfield, MA. They expanded to a five-piece with the addition of former Aftershock drummer Tom Gomes, as Dutkiewitz stirred over to guitar. The album included favorites such as "Self-Revolution," "Just Barely Breathing," and a re-recorded version of "Temple From the Within." Andy Sneap was signed on to integrate and professional this one in his English studio apartment. The album aimed at even more than of the growl sea bass tone, heavier guitar crunch, and thicker/faster double freshwater bass that permeate the music of the band, and it was greeted with high extolment upon its release in May 2002 (it even shot to number 37 on Billboard's Heatseeker Chart). Tours with Soilwork and Hypocrisy finished in front the band suffered a reversal that June; lead isaac M. Singer Leach short leftfield the mathematical group, citing representative problems and personal issues. (He later went on to join alloy outfit Seemless.) Breaking up was not an alternative, simply Killswitch was still unsure of their future -- until auditioning Howard Jones that is, vocalizer for local metalcore outfit Blood Has Been Shed. The isthmus and Jones clicked immediately, and his charismatic even menacing stage presence sealed the deal. He made his debut with the band at summer 2002's Hellfest, and the guys stayed on the road for the remainder of the year, both habitation and overseas, winning over skeptics along the mode. Gomes exited the chemical group following their stint on 2003's Ozzfest and he was replaced by another Blood Has Been Shed graduate, drummer Justin Foley. The End of Heartache appeared in springiness 2004, debuting at turn 21 on the Top cc and even earning Killswitch a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. Much touring followed, including playacting as independent financial support for Slayer and floater on package tours like Ozzfest and Taste of Chaos, spell the banding too released the DVD Arrange This World Ablaze in late 2005. Killswitch Engage further rocked a independent stage spot at the U.K.'s Reading festival in summer 2006; all of this activity ultimately light-emitting diode up to the release of their fourth full-length, As Daylight Dies, that November. |
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