Killswitch Interact singer Jesse Leach has provided perception into the sound of the band’s new album This Consequence.
The frontman, who fronted the metalcore titans from 1999 to 2002 and rejoined in 2013, makes the feedback in a brand new look on the Discuss Toomey podcast. He describes their ninth album, out on February 21 through Steel Blade, as “offended, darkish and aggressive”, saying it’s “what the world wants proper now”.
“I feel a whole lot of us can relate to frustration, anger, betrayal, all these issues, and that’s sort of what I highlighted lyrically with this album,” the vocalist elaborates (through Blabbermouth). “I used to be actually specializing in that stuff.”
Nevertheless, Leach provides that there’s some “positivity” which shines by way of all of This Consequence’s “righteous anger”. He continues: “[It’s] anger that wishes to kind of wake folks up and have folks select their very own path as an alternative of simply the blind main the blind, which is what we see a lot in society and our governments and organised faith and all these items that management us as folks.
“It’s very a lot about breaking out of the matrix, if you’ll,” the frontman finishes, “and carving your individual path. And there’s a righteous anger beneath all of it, and that’s the place the positivity lies. However I feel with steel music, the wonderful thing about it’s you may speak about darkish stuff and it’s therapeutic. That’s why a whole lot of us get into this sort of music.”
Killswitch introduced This Consequence final month and launched its lead single, Without end Aligned, on November 20. Leach mentioned through Instagram that the track was impressed by his love for his spouse.
This Consequence can be Killswitch’s first studio album in six years, following 2019’s Atonement. Nevertheless, they’ve been something however slouches. They’ve performed many, many reveals because the pandemic ended, together with a blockbuster headline set at Bloodstock Open Air in Derbyshire final yr.
The band will proceed to tour with a run throughout North America subsequent spring. See dates and particulars under.
In the meantime, guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz has been arduous at work on a brand new collaboration with former Killswitch singer Howard Jones, who fronted the band throughout Leach’s 11-year absence. The 2’s new undertaking was not too long ago named as Burn Everlasting and their debut album has been combined.
Killswitch Interact 2025 North American tour dates:
Mar 05: Nashville The Pinnacle, TN
Mar 06: Chesterfield The Manufacturing facility, MO
Mar 08: Fayetteville JJ’s Dwell, AR
Mar 09: Oklahoma Metropolis The Criterion, OK
Mar 11: El Paso Don Haskins Heart Enviornment, TX
Mar 13: Las Vegas The Theater at Virgin Lodges Las Vegas, NV
Mar 14: Reno Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort, NV
Mar 15: Wheatland Laborious Rock Dwell, CA
Mar 17: Backyard Metropolis Revolution Live performance Home, ID
Mar 18: Seattle The Paramount, WA
Mar 19: Vancouver PNE Discussion board, Canada
Mar 21: Penticton South Okanagan Occasions Centre, Canada
Mar 22: Tsuut’ina Gray Eagle Occasion Centre, Canada
Mar 24: Winnipeg Burton Cummings Theatre, Canada
Mar 27: Peoria Civic Heart, IL
Mar 28: Waukee Vibrant Music Corridor, IA
Mar 29: La Vista The Astro, NE
Mar 30: Kansas Metropolis The Midland Theatre, MO
Apr 01: Grand Rapids GLC Dwell 20 Monroe, MI
Apr 03: Corbin The Corbin Enviornment, KY
Apr 04: Pittsburgh Stage AE, PA
Apr 05: Philadelphia Franklin Music Corridor, PA
Apr 06: Greensboro Particular Occasions Heart, NC
Apr 08: New Haven School Road Music Corridor, CT
Apr 09: Buffalo Riverworks, NY
Apr 11: Laval Place Bell, Canada
Apr 12: Portland Cross Insurance coverage Enviornment, ME
