– Might sixth, 2025 –
SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE HATEBREED, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, DECAPITATED, AND EMPLOYED TO SERVE
DATES MARK THE BAND’S FIRST HEADLINE TOUR HERE IN SIX YEARS
NEW ALBUM THIS CONSEQUENCE OUT NOW VIA METAL BLADE
Three-time Grammy-nominated metalcore titans and platinum-selling band KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D’Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums – have introduced a long-awaited, headlining return to the UK & mainland Europe with what’s certain to be one of many premiere steel line-ups this 12 months.
For the UK & IRISH dates, the line-up will probably be: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, HATEBREED, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, and DECAPITATED.
For the EU dates, the line-up will probably be: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, DECAPITATED, and EMPLOYED TO SERVE.
The tour includes 25 dates over 2 legs from September – December 2025, kicking off in Lisbon and wrapping up in Helsinki, and features a cease at London’s OVO Enviornment Wembley.
Some of the influential bands in fashionable steel, the trek will see KILLSWITCH ENGAGE dominate phases performing fan favourites and deep cuts from throughout their 25-year discography, in addition to new songs from their extensively praised, lately launched album This Consequence.
Identified for his or her explosive dwell performances and genre-defining sound, this isn’t one to overlook!
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach enthuses, “I’m very desperate to get to share the stage with prime tier bands like Decapitated, Hatebreed, Match For An Post-mortem, and Employed To Serve! This can be a monster of a line up and a possibility to play a few of these new songs in addition to a strong combine from our catalogue! Headlining over in Europe and the UK is effectively overdue because it’s been about 6 years since we final have been ready to do that! I’m sure this will probably be a tour that may completely flip heads and make for some nice reminiscences!“
Tickets and VIP packages go on basic sale on Friday ninth Might at 10am BST right here.
Look out for earlier artist, O2, and Stay Nation pre-sales starting from Tuesday sixth Might at 10am BST.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ON TOUR:
Leg 1:
Mon twenty ninth Sep – POR – LISBON LAV
Wed 1st Oct – SPA – MADRID La Riviera
Thu 2nd Oct – SPA – BARCELONA Razzmatazz
Sat 4th Oct – ITA – MILAN Fabrique
Solar fifth Oct – SWI – ZURICH Halle 622
Mon sixth Oct – FRA – PARIS Bataclan
Wed eighth Oct – UK – WOLVERHAMPTON Civic Corridor
Thu ninth Oct – UK – MANCHESTER Manchester Academy
Sat eleventh Oct – UK – NEWCASTLE NX
Solar twelfth Oct – UK – CARDIFF Depot
Mon thirteenth Oct – UK – LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Wed fifteenth Oct – SCO – GLASGOW O2 Academy
Fri seventeenth Oct – UK – LONDON OVO Wembley Enviornment
Solar nineteenth Oct – UK – BELFAST Telegraph Constructing
Mon twentieth Oct – IRE – DUBLIN Nationwide Stadium
Leg 2:
Thu twentieth Nov – GER – COLOGNE Palladium
Fri twenty first Nov – GER – LUDWIGSBURG MHP Enviornment
Sat twenty second Nov – GER – BERLIN Columbiahalle
Mon twenty fourth Nov – CZE – PRAGUE SasaZu
Tue twenty fifth Nov – GER – LEIPZIG Haus Auensee
Thu twenty seventh Nov – GER – HAMBURG Sporthalle
Fri twenty eighth Nov – DEN – COPENHAGEN Amager Bio
Sat twenty ninth Nov – SWE – STOCKHOLM Fallan
Mon 1st Dec – NOR – OSLO Sentrum Scene
Wed third Dec – FIN – HELSINKI Home of Tradition
Final week, EU tourmates Employed To Serve shared new single “Whose Facet Are You On?“, that includes visitor vocals from none apart from Jesse Leach. Watch the video for that monitor right here.
Newest KILLSWITCH ENGAGE album This Consequence was launched in February 2025 by way of Steel Blade. Followers acquired their first style with pulverising monitor “Perpetually Aligned“, swiftly adopted up with the moment traditional “I Imagine,” which has already notched up over 1 million views on YouTube. Most lately, the group shared a video for brand new track ‘Collusion‘.
“Making this document lit a fireplace beneath my ass and made me rethink all the pieces,” admits Jesse. “It needed to be subsequent degree. It needed to be totally different sufficient for folks to essentially acknowledge we’re placing forth an effort-or what’s the purpose of doing this? There was no repeating ourselves. It was very rigorously deliberate out and passionately written. It appears like Killswitch, but there’s additionally a contemporary spirit to it.”
This time round, the group emphasised working collectively face-to-face in a Massachusetts rehearsal spot. The method enabled them to use the strain on each component. On the collective urging of his bandmates, Jesse poured over his phrases like by no means earlier than.
“We pushed him to do extra vocal demos and have been tremendous powerful on him,” remembers Adam. “He was so open to suggestions although, and he undoubtedly acquired the lyrics proper. I find it irresistible when he and I are face-to-face, and concepts are flying round. We work particularly effectively collectively after we’re within the warmth of the second. All the demoing made for a greater document, and there was a lot communication between the entire band members.“
“It felt like everybody put a ton of effort into this,” Mike provides. “It’s the primary time since Alive Or Simply Respiratory that we actually hashed all the pieces out collectively in the identical room. It was a mixed effort, and there are even some belongings you’ve by no means heard from Killswitch.”
“I by no means thought of myself to be part of mainstream society,” he goes on. “I’ve at all times been within the center. To me, this document is in regards to the penalties of our actions as people as we interact in warfare, hatred, division, and falling in keeping with management. Historical past repeats itself. We’re going to must reply for our actions-whether it’s how we deal with the earth or one another. There will probably be an rebellion and a backlash from nature. Trigger-and-effect is a driving theme. We’ll face a consequence.”
Purchase This Consequence right here.
ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE:
Killswitch Interact first shook the construction of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, on-stage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the tempo for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002′s Alive Or Simply Respiratory turned avowed as a definitive album, being named amongst “The Prime 100 Biggest Steel Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everybody from Steel Hammer to Revolver. Not solely did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to comply with, however in addition they garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations within the class of “Finest Steel Efficiency” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The Finish of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive Prime 10 debuts on the Billboard Prime 200 with Killswitch Interact [2009], Disarm The Descent [2013], and their profession excessive finest bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases, together with 2019′s Atonement, would additionally each seize #1 on the Prime Rock Albums and Prime Onerous Rock Albums charts. The band’s whole streams are nearing 3 billion to this point, whereas they’ve remained consummate highway warriors who’ve offered out numerous headline excursions and have shared phases with everybody from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testomony to their capability to cross genres and enchantment to all followers of arduous rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at each main North American and European pageant by way of the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year profession as some of the very important and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its unimaginable legacy.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ONLINE:
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