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| Killswitch Engage is a heavy metal band from Westfield, Massachusetts that are known as being one of the main founders of the subgenre of metalcore. The band was formed by former members of Overcast and Aftershock including Adam Dutkiewicz (drums), Mike D’Antonio (bass), Joel Stroetzl (guitar), and Jesse Leach (vocals). This original lineup is best known for releasing Alive Or Just Breathing in 2002 which is known as the benchmark metalcore album.
After releasing their initial demo in 1999, the band signed with Ferret Music and released their debut album Killswitch Engage in 2000. The album contained the classic songs “Soilborn”, “Irreversal” and “Temple From Within”. The album sparked interest from Roadrunner Records executives who wanted to make the band the next “Pantera”. Knowing that they needed help with distribution, the band accepted a deal from Roadrunner in late 2000.
The band’s second release, the metalcore classic, Alive Or Just Breathing was their first album for Roadrunner. It contains the popular tracks “Fixation On The Darkeness” and “My Last Serenade”. A music video for the latter gained the band a decent amount of mainstream exposure. The critical reviews of the album were highly positive
Shortly after the release of the album, Dutkiewicz moved to guitar and Tom Gomes formerly of Aftershock took over on drums making the band a five piece. During the recording of Alive Or Just Breathing, lead singer Jesse Leach would become discouraged with the recording of his vocals wanting to make things absolutely perfect. Leach had always been one to put a lot of pressure on himself and that pressure would finally get to him. When the band began touring in 2002, Leach became depressed and quit the band through an email to the other members angering a couple members of the band. Philip Labonte of All That Remains would help the band finish out their tour. Killswitch Engage Official Site Disponible sólo a los usuarios 2005 (Set This) World Ablaze DVD Tracklist:
Live at Worcester Palladium in July of 2005
01. A Bid Farewell 02. Breathe Life 03. Fixation On The Darkness 04. When Darkness Falls 05. Self-Revolution 06. The End Of Heartache 07. Take This Oath 08. Numbered Days 09. The Element Of One 10. Hope Is Not Lost 11. Life To Lifeless 12. My Last Serenade 13. Rose Of Sharyn 14. Vide Infra 15. Temple From The Within
Videos: Rose Of Sharyn Fixation On The Darkness The End Of Heartache My Last Serenade Life To Lifeless
Over 75 minutes of live footage captured at the Sold-Out Worcester Palladium All of the band s videos On the Road & Behind the Scenes footage Extensive interviews with the band Interviews with other bands from Ozzfest 2005
Quality: DVD9 Format: DVD Video Video codec: MPEG2 Audio codec: AC3 Video: NTSC 16х9 (720x480) VBR Audio: AC3 2.0 224
Label: Roadrunner Records
I'm sure a lot of people are having doubts right now about KsE. AoJB was absolutely awesome, but TEOH was fairly emo-ish, and the vocals weren't as good etc. This is good proof that KsE are still a kick ass band.
It doesn't start off too promisingly though. Bid Farewell always had a fairly lame intro, and it sounds ten times worse live. Sounds like something Limp Bizkit would do. But after that serious misstep, the live show is a cracker. Howard Jones hasn't mastered the art of talking to the crowd yet, but he has a good stage presence and is a much, much better singer live. His screams are still good, but his clean voice is far better then it was in the studio.
The guitars, bass and drums are all super awesome too. Adam D adds a few cool little extra licks in Breathe Life and a few other songs. For the most part, he's content to run around like Angus Young in dodgy Denim cut offs and a Vampire cloak (WTF Mate?). Joel and Mike for the most part are content to head bang all the time, it's pretty good stuff. Also the drummer, Justin Foley. He sounded fairly generic on the album, but like Howard, he's much, much better live, doing a few cool fills and putting a lot more personality into the drums.
The setlist is definetly worth mentioning, it's really good. Lots of stuff of AoJB, a bit off TEOH and even a song of their debut album. It seems like Howard isn't as enthusiatic with the earlier stuff, but it still all sounds super good. I just wish they'd played Just Barely Breathing.. Oh well. HIghlights of the set would be Temple from the Within, Numbered Days and Take this Oath.
The extras are pretty good too. It's a fairly in-depth history of KsE, complete with some pretty cool old home videos from their early days, their days in Overcast/Aftershock etc. Lots of interviews from band members, former band members, other metalcore bands etc.
So it's a pretty solid dvd, I guess the one whinge I have is that it sounds like the live mix was really, really screwed with in the studio. The guitars and bass are all super chunky, and I have no problem with Adam D adding a bit more chunk and definition, but come on, is the crowd really that loud? Maybe they are just rabid fans. But it's only a minor complaint. I'd say this is a must buy for KsE fans, there's some real good stuff here.
Edit: Dropping it down by ten percent. It's a good DVD, but there are quite a few better ones out there, so, only 82% for this one now.
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