“I would hide out before the show, play the set, hide out after, not be sociable, not have fun, and that just started wearing thin on me”: Jesse Leach explains his 2002 Killswitch Engage exit

Killswitch Engage in 2024.

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach has opened up about leaving the band back in 2002.

Leach sang on the Massachusetts metalcore favourites’ first two albums before departing. He was replaced by Howard Jones, but returned to the band in 2012.