– Might sixth, 2025 –
SPECIAL GUESTS INCLUDE HATEBREED, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, DECAPITATED, AND EMPLOYED TO SERVE
DATES MARK THE BAND’S FIRST HEADLINE TOUR HERE IN SIX YEARS
NEW ALBUM THIS CONSEQUENCE OUT NOW VIA METAL BLADE
Three-time Grammy-nominated metalcore titans and platinum-selling band KILLSWITCH ENGAGE – Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D’Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums – have introduced a long-awaited, headlining return to the UK & mainland Europe with what’s positive to be one of many premiere metallic line-ups this 12 months.
For the UK & IRISH dates, the line-up can be: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, HATEBREED, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, and DECAPITATED.
For the EU dates, the line-up can be: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY, DECAPITATED, and EMPLOYED TO SERVE.
The tour includes 25 dates over 2 legs from September – December 2025, kicking off in Lisbon and wrapping up in Helsinki, and features a cease at London’s OVO Enviornment Wembley.
One of the influential bands in fashionable metallic, the trek will see KILLSWITCH ENGAGE dominate phases performing fan favourites and deep cuts from throughout their 25-year discography, in addition to new songs from their extensively praised, just lately launched album This Consequence.
Recognized for his or her explosive reside performances and genre-defining sound, this isn’t one to overlook!
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE frontman Jesse Leach enthuses, “I’m very desperate to get to share the stage with prime tier bands like Decapitated, Hatebreed, Match For An Post-mortem, and Employed To Serve! It is a monster of a line up and a chance to play a few of these new songs in addition to a stable combine from our catalogue! Headlining over in Europe and the UK is properly overdue because it’s been about 6 years since we final had been in a position to do that! I’m sure this can be a tour that may completely flip heads and make for some nice recollections!“
Tickets and VIP packages go on normal sale on Friday ninth Might at 10am BST right here.
Look out for earlier artist, O2, and Reside Nation pre-sales starting from Tuesday sixth Might at 10am BST.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ON TOUR:
Leg 1:
Mon twenty ninth Sep – POR – LISBON LAV
Wed 1st Oct – SPA – MADRID La Riviera
Thu 2nd Oct – SPA – BARCELONA Razzmatazz
Sat 4th Oct – ITA – MILAN Fabrique
Solar fifth Oct – SWI – ZURICH Halle 622
Mon sixth Oct – FRA – PARIS Bataclan
Wed eighth Oct – UK – WOLVERHAMPTON Civic Corridor
Thu ninth Oct – UK – MANCHESTER Manchester Academy
Sat eleventh Oct – UK – NEWCASTLE NX
Solar twelfth Oct – UK – CARDIFF Depot
Mon thirteenth Oct – UK – LEEDS O2 Academy Leeds
Wed fifteenth Oct – SCO – GLASGOW O2 Academy
Fri seventeenth Oct – UK – LONDON OVO Wembley Enviornment
Solar nineteenth Oct – UK – BELFAST Telegraph Constructing
Mon twentieth Oct – IRE – DUBLIN Nationwide Stadium
Leg 2:
Thu twentieth Nov – GER – COLOGNE Palladium
Fri twenty first Nov – GER – LUDWIGSBURG MHP Enviornment
Sat twenty second Nov – GER – BERLIN Columbiahalle
Mon twenty fourth Nov – CZE – PRAGUE SasaZu
Tue twenty fifth Nov – GER – LEIPZIG Haus Auensee
Thu twenty seventh Nov – GER – HAMBURG Sporthalle
Fri twenty eighth Nov – DEN – COPENHAGEN Amager Bio
Sat twenty ninth Nov – SWE – STOCKHOLM Fallan
Mon 1st Dec – NOR – OSLO Sentrum Scene
Wed third Dec – FIN – HELSINKI Home of Tradition
Final week, EU tourmates Employed To Serve shared new single “Whose Aspect Are You On?“, that includes visitor vocals from none aside from Jesse Leach. Watch the video for that observe right here.
Newest KILLSWITCH ENGAGE album This Consequence was launched in February 2025 by way of Metallic Blade. Followers bought their first style with pulverising observe “Endlessly Aligned“, swiftly adopted up with the moment traditional “I Imagine,” which has already notched up over 1 million views on YouTube. Most just lately, the group shared a video for brand spanking new tune ‘Collusion‘.
“Making this report lit a hearth underneath my ass and made me rethink every little thing,” admits Jesse. “It needed to be subsequent stage. It needed to be totally different sufficient for individuals to essentially acknowledge we’re placing forth an effort-or what’s the purpose of doing this? There was no repeating ourselves. It was very rigorously deliberate out and passionately written. It feels like Killswitch, but there’s additionally a recent spirit to it.”
This time round, the group emphasised working collectively face-to-face in a Massachusetts rehearsal spot. The method enabled them to use the strain on each factor. On the collective urging of his bandmates, Jesse poured over his phrases like by no means earlier than.
“We pushed him to do extra vocal demos and had been tremendous robust on him,” recollects Adam. “He was so open to suggestions although, and he positively bought the lyrics proper. I find it irresistible when he and I are face-to-face, and concepts are flying round. We work particularly properly collectively after we’re within the warmth of the second. The entire demoing made for a greater report, and there was a lot communication between the entire band members.“
“It felt like everybody put a ton of effort into this,” Mike provides. “It’s the primary time since Alive Or Simply Respiratory that we actually hashed every little thing out collectively in the identical room. It was a mixed effort, and there are even some stuff you’ve by no means heard from Killswitch.”
“I by no means thought of myself to be part of mainstream society,” he goes on. “I’ve at all times been within the center. To me, this report is concerning the penalties of our actions as people as we interact in struggle, hatred, division, and falling consistent with management. Historical past repeats itself. We’re going to need to reply for our actions-whether it’s how we deal with the earth or one another. There can be an rebellion and a backlash from nature. Trigger-and-effect is a driving theme. We’ll face a consequence.”
Purchase This Consequence right here.
ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE:
Killswitch Have interaction first shook the construction of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, on-stage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the tempo for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002′s Alive Or Simply Respiratory grew to become avowed as a definitive album, being named amongst “The High 100 Biggest Metallic Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everybody from Metallic Hammer to Revolver. Not solely did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to comply with, however additionally they garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations within the class of “Greatest Metallic Efficiency” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The Finish of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive High 10 debuts on the Billboard High 200 with Killswitch Have interaction [2009], Disarm The Descent [2013], and their profession excessive greatest bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases, together with 2019′s Atonement, would additionally each seize #1 on the High Rock Albums and High Exhausting Rock Albums charts. The band’s complete streams are nearing 3 billion thus far, whereas they’ve remained consummate street warriors who’ve offered out numerous headline excursions and have shared phases with everybody from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testomony to their potential to cross genres and attraction to all followers of onerous rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at each main North American and European competition by the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year profession as some of the important and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its unimaginable legacy.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ONLINE:
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