Killswitch Engage - 2019 - Atonement [FLAC]
Artist: Killswitch Engage
Title: Atonement
Format: CD, Album
Country: US
Release Date: August 16, 2019
Recorded: 2018-2019
Label: Metal Blade Records
Catalog: 3894-15651-2
Barcode: 0 39841 56512 6
Genre: Rock, Metal, Metalcore
Duration: 39:01
Killswitch Engage:
Wikipedia:
Killswitch Engage is an American metalcore band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in 1999 after the disbanding of Overcast and Aftershock. Killswitch Engage's current lineup consists of vocalist Jesse Leach, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D'Antonio, and drummer Justin Foley. The band has released seven studio albums and two live performance albums. Their upcoming eighth studio album, Atonement, is set for release on August 16, 2019.
Killswitch Engage rose to fame with its 2004 release The End of Heartache, which peaked at number 21 on the Billboard 200, and was certified gold by the RIAA in December 2007 for over 500,000 shipments in the United States. The title track, "The End of Heartache", was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2005 for Best Metal Performance, and a live DVD titled (Set This) World Ablaze was released in 2005. Killswitch Engage has performed at festivals such as Soundwave Festival, Wacken Open Air, Reading and Leeds Festivals, Ozzfest, Download Festival, Rock on the Range, Rock Am Ring, Mayhem Festival, Monsters of Rock, Pointfest, Knotfest and Heavy MTL. The band has sold over four million records in the U.S. and has been considered notable within the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, and has also been considered one of the earliest leading forces of the metalcore genre.
Atonement:
Wikipedia:
Atonement is the upcoming eighth studio album by American metalcore band Killswitch Engage, scheduled to be released through Metal Blade Records on August 16, 2019. Lead single "Unleashed" was released on June 25, and followed by "I Am Broken Too" in August. The band began a co-headlining tour of North America with Clutch in promotion of the album in July.
The album was recorded over a period of two years, with ideas for the album beginning in 2017. Recording sessions took place on both coasts of the United States, but they were put on hold when vocalist Jesse Leach developed scar tissue on a polyp in his throat and underwent speech and vocal therapy for three months. Atonement was thus described as a "reflection of perseverance and passion through the trials and suffering of our existence" by the band, and by Leach as "musically the most diverse record we've done as a band".
Wall of Sound writer Ricky Aarons wrote that Atonement "does what [the band's] other releases have, and that is, craft the build-ups and hooks to what we would expect to hear as a crunchy breakdown" but then the band "steadily bring us back down to the start", which "retains old-school metal fans but also attracts the more contemporary metalcore fans". Aarons concluded that "maybe what Killswitch Engage have done here is perfect, and therefore it could be their best album".
Tracklist:
01. Unleashed - 4:35
02. The Signal Fire (Feat. Howard Jones of Light the Torch) - 3:05
03. Us Against the World - 3:19
04. The Crownless King (Feat. Chuck Billy of Testament) - 3:10
05. I Am Broken Too - 2:39
06. As Sure as the Sun Will Rise - 2:49
07. Know Your Enemy - 3:51
08. Take Control - 3:44
09. Ravenous - 2:52
10. I Can't Be the Only One - 4:09
11. Bite the Hand That Feeds - 4:48
Personnel:
Jesse Leach – lead vocals
Adam Dutkiewicz – lead guitar, backing vocals
Joel Stroetzel – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Mike D'Antonio – bass
Justin Foley – drums
Howard Jones (of Light the Torch) – guest vocals (track 02)
Chuck Billy (of Testament) – guest vocals (track 04)
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