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3 июл 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH: The Two Tours We Did With IRON MAIDEN Were 'Highlights Of My Life And My Career'
25 июн 2025 :	JESSE LEACH Says New KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Album 'This Consequence' Is 'A Cry For Unity'
24 июн 2025 :	Watch: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Rejoined By Singer HOWARD JONES At Tampa Stop Of 2025 'Summer Of Loud' Tour
17 июн 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Shares 'Aftermath' Music Video
12 апр 2025 :	Watch: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Rejoined By Singer HOWARD JONES On Stage In New Haven
10 апр 2025 :	JESSE LEACH: 'The Timing Is Perfect' For New KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Album 'This Consequence'
14 мар 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH: 'I Know We Can Do Better As A Human Race; I Know We Can Do Better In Our Country'
11 мар 2025 :	Watch: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Kicks Off 2025 North American Tour In Nashville
25 фев 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Shares Music Video For 'Collusion' Single From 'This Consequence' Album
24 фев 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH: 'I Think Bands Can Fall Into The Trap Of Pleasing The Audience Too Much'
19 фев 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH: I Wanted 'To Rediscover Myself As A Writer' On 'This Consequence' Album
15 фев 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's MIKE D'ANTONIO Denies Using Artificial Intelligence To Create 'This Consequence' Album Art
12 фев 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH On Making Of 'This Consequence' Album: 'The Only Pressure I Felt Was Pressure We Put On Ourselves'
28 янв 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH Opens Up About His Friendship With HOWARD JONES: 'I'd Always Admired Him'
23 янв 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Shares Music Video For New Single 'I Believe'
14 янв 2025 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH: 'I Love The Idea Of Continuing To Evolve As A Human'
21 дек 2024 :	Former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Singer HOWARD JONES Is Working On His Debut Solo Album
16 дек 2024 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JUSTIN FOLEY On 'This Consequence' Album: 'We Stick To Our Strengths But Also Change And Evolve'
5 дек 2024 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH On Upcoming 'This Consequence' Album: 'Angry, Dark And Aggressive' Is 'What The World Needs Right Now'
29 ноя 2024 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's JESSE LEACH: 'The Big Thing I've Been Learning A Lot Lately Is Being Considerate'
20 ноя 2024 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Releases New Single 'Forever Aligned'
25 сен 2024 :	Watch: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Rejoined By Singer HOWARD JONES At 2024 NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL
25 июл 2024 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Live At Wacken Open Air 2023; Pro-Shot Video Released
20 май 2024 :	KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Guitarist ADAM DUTKIEWICZ And Ex-Singer HOWARD JONES Have Begun Mixing Debut Album From New Project
10 мар 2024 :	JOEL STROETZEL Says There Are' A Lot Of Fast Songs' On Upcoming KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Album
26 фев 2024 :	New KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Album Is 'Almost Complete', Says JESSE LEACH

24 июн 2025

Watch: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Rejoined By Singer HOWARD JONES At Tampa Stop Of 2025 'Summer Of Loud' Tour

Massachusetts metallers KILLSWITCH ENGAGE were rejoined by their former singer Howard Jones on Sunday, June 22 at the second show of the "Summer Of Loud" tour at MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida. Jones made an appearance for the song "The Signal Fire", sharing the lead vocal duties with KILLSWITCH's longtime frontman Jesse Leach. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below.

In a January 2025 interview with Nik Nocturnal, Leach spoke about KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's status as one of the leaders of the so-called New Wave Of American Heavy Metal scene, alongside such acts as SHADOWS FALL, LAMB OF GOD, UNEARTH and GOD FORBID. He said: "I think I'd be remiss not to mention the behemoth that is Howard Jones as well. Him at the helm really took what we started out as sort of, like, I'd say fairly underground. That first record is not commercially viable. [2002's] 'Alive Or Just Breathing' was when we started to lean into that, but [2004's] 'The End Of Heartache' [which was Howard's first album with KILLSWITCH], to me, is when that band just blew up into the stratosphere. So I can't not mention that legacy. And to be able to be part of the legacy with rotating members and we're still at it, that's unreal. On paper, it shouldn't work, but it does somehow."

Regarding how KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ended up inviting Jones to make a guest appearance on "The Signal Fire", a song on the band's 2019 album "Atonement", Leach said: "I felt it was important in my heart. Those guys had to work some stuff out internally between them and Howard — a lot of unspoken stuff, which I respect highly that they kept it out of the public eye. They had to just settle some things. Once that was done and he started up again with — it was DEVIL YOU KNOW at the time, which turned into LIGHT THE TORCH, I'd always admired him. I always thought he was an incredible vocalist. I would even take it back to even before BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED, he was in a band called DRIVEN. And his band used to play with my band CORRIN, and I remember the first time seeing him sing and scream, and being, like, 'This guy, he's different. He doesn't sound like anybody else' that was doing it at the time. And back then, you're young; we didn't really know each other that well, and respecting him as a vocalist, but not really knowing him. So when it was water under the bridge and he started to show face and he came out to a show in Canada, it was the first time I got to hang with him and actually talk to him, which led to an entire evening of us hanging hard. He doesn't drink, but I was drinking. And I got enough liquid courage in me to sit him down and look him in the face, like, 'Dude, you know what, man? I've gotta tell you this. Out of respect for you, I've never had to sing anyone else's material. I was reluctant to do that when I rejoined the band. I was, like, 'Oh, this is awkward. I didn't write these lyrics.' I didn't know how I was gonna connect with them, but it became such a huge inspiration to me. And 'The Arms Of Sorrow' was the first song that really hooked me in. And I told Howard, I was, like, 'That song is what brought me in. You are great at what you do and I need to tell you to your face. People have tried to divide us and compare us and I have so much respect for you.' And then, within a half hour, he's, like, showing me LIGHT THE TORCH demos. And I'm, like, 'Dude. DEVIL YOU KNOW was good, but LIGHT THE TORCH, you're shining in this. This is really cool.' And then, at the end of the night, we're arm and arm singing old-school hip-hop songs together. We became friends. And then from there, it was, like, okay, so he's back. He's part of the legacy. He's part of the family."

Leach continued: "[In August 2018, Howard] was in London doing press while we were opening for IRON MAIDEN, and I knew he was gonna be around. So, of course, we invited him out, like, 'Let's just hang with Howard.' As we were walking to the arena in London, I looked over and was, like, 'Dude, you should do 'The End Of Heartache' tonight on your own. Are you cool with that?' He's, like, 'Yeah. Let me just listen to it 'cause I haven't listened to it for years.' I was, like, 'Cool. You've got a couple hours, man. Just get up on that stage and do what you do. It'd be good for everybody.' So there's a picture of him online with us. And the wheel started turning. And as I was writing 'The Signal Fire', which comes from the scene in 'The Lord Of The Rings' where they're lighting the fires on top of the mountain; to me it was like this call to arms and it was a song about unity. I'm, like, 'Dude, why don't we get Howard? It's perfect. The song is about unity. It's about asking for help.' And the back end of this story is this is pre-vocal surgery. I was having a hard time because I was singing on polyps for about 10 years, according to the doctors. I was singing on broken vocal folds for 10 years. Making of 'Atonement' was when it all went to shit. And I was having a hard time hitting simple notes. And Adam's [Dutkiewicz, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist and producer], like, 'Something's not right with you, dude.' So within two days of that, we had Howard flown out. And he jumped in the studio. I had to be quiet. I sat there and listened to him record 'The Signal Fire'. I went home, went to see the doctor. The doctor's, like, 'Bad news. Put the tour on hold, album on hold. You need to sit and be quiet. We're gonna pump you up with a bunch of drugs. Hopefully there's something we can do for you, which led to me three months of complete silence and vocal surgery and total, like, 'I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do this anymore.' So, interesting timing of him coming in… And in my mind, it was, like, worst-case scenario, I'm done. He's already on the record. Maybe he just finishes the record up and I passed the torch to him. So that's the backstory to it all. But thankfully I was able to continue on."

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's latest album, "This Consequence", came out on February 21, 2025 via Metal Blade. "This Consequence" is KILLSWITCH ENGAGE's ninth album overall, and sixth with Leach, who rejoined the band in 2012.

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