Killswitch Engage Discography
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 Killswitch EngageKillswitch Engage [2009] Release Date 2009 06 23 Label Roadrunner Records Rating:  Westfield, MA-based metalcore kings Killswitch Engage's fifth full-length album (and second eponymous release) was co-produced by Brendan O'Brien (Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Mastodon), resulting in the group's most commercially viable collection of progressive/thrash/emo-metal to date. Where 2006's As Daylight Dies hinted at an accelerated focus on the more melodic aspects of extreme metal, Killswitch Engage cements the notion. After a typically brutal opener that epitomizes the band's penchant for scorching thrash-heavy verses and sweeping, melodious choruses, the quintet spits out the radio-ready &"Starting Over." Flanked by dual guitar leads that echo classic Iron Maiden and shot through with a truly great vocal take from lead singer Howard Jones (who sounds remarkably like a classically trained Trent Reznor throughout the album), it's one of the album's finest, though ultimately divisive moments. It sets a significantly different template for the remainder of the record, trading tight machine-gun riffs (&"Save Me," &"A Light in a Darkened World") for angst-fueled midtempo dirges (&"Lost," &"This Is Goodbye") that might disappoint fans who feel that the punk-infused slow-burn post-hardcore albums like Alive or Just Breathing and End of Heartache are the barometers for which all future endeavors must be compared. James Christopher Monger, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Never Again | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 3:09 |
| 2 | Starting Over | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 3:51 |
| 3 | Forgotten | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 3:17 |
| 4 | Reckoning | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 2:40 |
| 5 | Return | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 4:28 |
| 6 | Light in a Darkened World | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 2:50 |
| 7 | Take Me Away | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 2:45 |
| 8 | I Would Do Anything | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 3:22 |
| 9 | Save Me | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 3:46 |
| 10 | Lost | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 3:45 |
| 11 | This Is Goodbye | Jones, Stroezel, Dutkiewicz, D'Antonio, Foley | 4:17 |
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