Killswitch Engage Announce ‘Atonement’

“‘Unleashed’ is about inner passion and rage coming up to the surface,” explains singer Jesse Leach. “We all have that wild within that often stays dormant until a tragic event triggers and awakens it. This song is about that awakening within. I feel we were able to capture something raw and intense on this song and I’m stoked for everyone to hear it! The new album Atonement is a reflection of perseverance and passion through the trials and suffering of our existence.”

Atonementis the culmination of a trying and turbulent two-year period. KsE started kicking around ideas for the album as early as 2017. The band recorded the bulk of the material separately on both coasts. However, in the middle of the process, a polyp developed scar tissue in Leach’s throat, forcing him to undergo surgery. The intense three-month recovery ended with speech therapy, vocal therapy, and scream therapy. The band ultimately emerged with an album that is further evidence of their undeniable legacy as one of the most enduring metal bands of the last two decades and beyond. The elaborate illustration on the Atonement album cover was created by talented UK-based artist Richey Beckett (Metallica, Mastodon) with the band’s own Mike D’Antonio handling art direction and layout duties.

ATONEMENT TRACK LISTING: 1. Unleashed 2. The Signal Fire [featuring Howard Jones] 3. Us Against The World 4. The Crownless King [featuring Chuck Billy] 5. I Am Broken Too 6. As Sure As The Sun Will Rise 7. Know Your Enemy 8. Take Control 9. Ravenous 10. I Can’t Be The Only One 11. Bite The Hand That Feeds KsE will spend the summer on a co-headline US tour with Clutch from July 8th – August 4th including a number of US festival dates. Today, the band are pleased to announce their return to Europe for a headline run in the autumn, kicking off in Norwich, England on October 14th and wrapping up November 10th in Nuremberg, Germany. Support bands will be announced at a later date.

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE IN EUROPE: Mon 14th Oct – NORWICH (UK) UEA Tue 15th Oct – BRISTOL (UK) O2 Academy Thu 17th Oct – GLASGOW (UK) Barrowland Fri 18th Oct – MANCHESTER (UK) Academy Sat 19th Oct – BIRMINGHAM (UK) O2 Academy Sun 20th Oct – LONDON (UK) O2 Academy Brixton Tue 22nd Oct – BRUSSELS (BEL) AB Wed 23rd Oct – AMSTERDAM (HOL) Melkweg Fri 25th Oct – OBERHAUSEN (GER) Turbinenhalle Sat 26th Oct – BERLIN (GER) Huxleys Mon 28th Oct – HELSINKI (FIN) Circus Wed 30th Oct – STOCKHOLM (SWE) Fryshuset Thu 31st Oct – OSLO (NOR) Rockefeller Fri 1st Nov – KARLSTAD (SWE) Sat 2nd Nov – COPENHAGEN (DEN) Amager Bio Mon 4th Nov – WARSAW (POL) Stodola Tue 5th Nov – LEIPZIG (GER) Werk 2 Wed 6th Nov – MUNICH (GER) – Tonhalle Fri 8th Nov – LAUSANNE (SWI) Les Docs Sat 9th Nov – PRATTELN (SWI) Z7 Sun 10th Nov – NUREMBERG (GER) Loewensaal Tickets go on general sale at 9am on Friday, 28th June. Tickets for the UK dates can be bought online via https://www.livenation.co.uk/artist/killswitch-engage-tickets and www.gigsinscotland.com ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 1999. 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 pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002’s Alive Or Just Breathing became avowed as a definitive album, being named among “The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer & Revolver. Not only did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but they also garnered two GRAMMY® Award nominations in the category of “Best Metal Performance” in 2005 and 2014, respectively, and gold certifications for The End of Heartache[2004] and As Daylight Days[2006]. The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the BillboardTop 200 with Killswitch Engage [2009], Disarm The Descent[2013], and their career high best bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases would also both capture #1 on the Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. Their total streams have exceeded half-a-billion to date. Along the way, the band has shared stages with some of the biggest acts in the world and have sold out countless headline gigs in six continents across the globe.