History Music / KillswitchEngage

* BaldOfAuthority -- Howard Jones.
* CarefulWithThatAxe -- "My Curse" and the start of "Rose of Sharyn".

* GriefSong -- "My Curse" and "Rose of Sharyn."

* ObsessionSong -- Quite a few of them.
** They even made a song called "My Obsession" for the ''Creator/RoadrunnerRecords'' collaboration album for ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' entitled ''God of War: Blood and Metal''.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis -- Prechorus of "My Curse".

* RefrainFromAssuming -- "My Curse" getting called "This is My Curse".

* NotChristianRock: Jesse Leach was raised Christian, and some of the band's lyrics sound vaguely religious, but the band has rejected the Christian label, stating that their music is meant to be enjoyed by people of all religious backgrounds.

* FilkSong: "Loyalty", released in 2015, is about the Martell family of Series/GameOfThrones.

* BaldBlackLeaderGuy -- Howard Jones.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Mostly around a hard 7-standard 8, but they can go up to a 9 at their hardest.
** MohsScaleOfLyricalHardness: Amusingly, not that high given both Jesse and Howard focused on more positive feelings for lyrics instead of the death, angst and destruction that permeates metal.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Definitely around an 8. Think about it, and it's probably gonna be hard to say otherwise.

* GenrePopularizer: Of melodic metalcore.

* {{Metalcore}}

* OlderThanTheyLook -- Believe it or not, Howard Jones is ''49''.

* NotChristianRock --The band is often assumed to be Christian due to lead singer Jesse Leach's faith.
** Which is kind of doubly ironic, given that WWE Superstar Wrestling/{{Christian}} is such a fan he renamed his FinishingMove after them.

* OlderThanTheyLook -- Believe it or not, Howard Jones is ''48''.

* FiveManBand:
** TheLeader: Mike
** TheLancer: Joel
** TheSmartGuy: Adam
** TheBigGuy: Justin
** [[SixthRanger Fifth Ranger]]: Jesse

* RefrainFromAssuming -- "My Curse" getting called "This is My Curse". Overlaps with FandomBerserkButton.

* SoloSideProject: Guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage started a solo project (with former Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach) called Times of Grace and also had the onetime studio project Serpentine Dominion with [[Music/CannibalCorpse George Fisher]] and [[Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder Shannon Lucas]]. Subverted with Death Ray Vision; while Mike D'Antonio was (or is; the band's status is up in the air) a member, it was more [[Music/ShadowsFall Brian Fair's]] project than his.

* OlderThanTheyLook -- Believe it or not, Howard Jones is ''41''.

** They even made a song called "My Obsession" for the ''Roadrunner Records'' collaboration album for ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' entitled ''God of War: Blood and Metal''.

** TheLancer: Jesse

** TheHeart: Joel

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[SmallReferencePools the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, [[TropeCodifier producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore]]. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as Music/{{Lamb of God}}.

!!KillswitchEngage contains the following tropes:

KillswitchEngage is a five-piece {{metalcore}} band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in the late nineties. The band currently consists of vocalist Jesse Leach, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D'Antonio and drummer Justin Foley.

* FilkSong: "Loyalty", released in 2015, is about the Martell family of GameOfThrones.

* SoloSideProject:Guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz of Killswitch Engage started a solo project (with former Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach) called Times of Grace.

** Which is kind of doubly ironic, given that WWE Superstar Christian is such a fan he renamed his FinishingMove after them.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[SmallReferencePools the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, [[TropeCodifier producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore]]. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

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