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Killswitch Engage (Music)
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Killswitch Engage is a five-piece metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in the late nineties. The band currently consists of vocalist Jesse Leach, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D'Antonio and drummer Justin Foley.Original singer Jesse Leach was replaced with former Blood Has Been Shed singer Howard Jones for almost a decade, before returning when Howard quit due to health problems. note Two types of Diabetes that were not helped by the band's hectic touring lifestyleThe band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "the founders of metalcore", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of Melodic Death Metal and clean singing, producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore. At any rate, Killswitch Engage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as Lamb of God. | |
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Soft Water | |
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Soft Water — The "Arms of Sorrow" music video, which has a man falling off what looks like a very tall apartment building, ends with said man landing in a swimming pool and apparently surviving in one piece. | |
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Power Ballad | |
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Power Ballad — "The End of Heartache" and "The Arms of Sorrow" for the Jones era; "Always" for the Leach era. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Adam Dutkiewicz in the music video for "Holy Diver." | |
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Longest Song Goes Last | |
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Longest Song Goes Last: Alive or Just Breathing ends with "Rise Inside" (5:56) As Daylight Dies ends with "Reject Yourself" (4:44) Atonement ends with "Bite the Hand That Feeds" (4:48) | |
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Older Than They Look | |
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Older Than They Look — Believe it or not, Howard Jones is 50. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism — Generally idealistic. | |
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Metalcore | |
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Metalcore: They're credited with launching the genre into the mainstream. | |
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Metal Scream | |
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Same thing with "My Curse," which starts with melodic, lightly distorted guitar chords that segue into a crushing riff and a Metal Scream. | |
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Obsession Song | |
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Obsession Song — Quite a few of them. They even made a song called "My Obsession" for the Roadrunner Records collaboration album for God of War III entitled God of War: Blood and Metal. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash — "My Last Serenade" opens with quiet ambient sounds, gentle acoustic guitar, and soft singing before launching into a steam-rolling metal assault. Same thing with "My Curse," which starts with melodic, lightly distorted guitar chords that segue into a crushing riff and a Metal Scream. | |
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Heavy Metal | |
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Heavy Metal — Though some purists would argue that since they're metalcore, they're merely a form of hardcore punk... | |
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Self-Titled Album | |
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Self-Titled Album — Two, their debut and their fifth album. | |
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Cloudcuckoolander | |
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Cloudcuckoolander — Adam is known for acting a little...out there during live performances. | |
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Cover Version | |
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Cover Version: Of "Holy Diver", originally by Dio. The music video is notable for being a fairly close homage to the original, but with much higher production values and a clearer plot. | |
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Subdued Section | |
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Subdued Section — The band utilizes this trope very often; "Desperate Times", "The Arms of Sorrow" and "The End of Heartache" are examples. | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance — They have tons of aggressive, super heavy songs with surprisingly positive lyrics. | |
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Start My Own | |
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Start My Own: How they started. By 1998, Overcast was basically done and Aftershock was seeing its own twilight, and both Mike D'Antonio and Adam Dutkiewicz had plenty of musical ideas kicking around in spite of their mutual lack of functioning bands to make those ideas happen, which led to the formation of Killswitch Engage. | |
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Soprano and Gravel | |
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Soprano and Gravel — Both Leach and Jones utilize the one-man variant. | |
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Solo Side Project | |
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Solo Side Project: Guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage started a solo project (with former Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach) called Times of Grace and also had the onetime studio project Serpentine Dominion with George Fisher and Shannon Lucas. Subverted with Death Ray Vision; while Mike D'Antonio is a member, it was more Brian Fair's project than his and was conceived as the Spiritual Successor to Overcast; with Fair gone, the leadership has largely shifted to Pete Cortese. | |
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Running Gag | |
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Running Gag — The video for "Holy Diver" features the king taking a large bite out of a chicken leg three separate times. | |
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