“Killswitch has always been strong and positive. We wanted something a little darker, a bit more personal, spiritual almost”: how Killswitch Engage reinvented themselves with their divisive self-titled fifth album

Killswitch Engage posing for a group portrait in 2009.

Massachusetts metalcore heroes Killswitch Engage’s self-titled fourth album (their last with second singer Howard Jones) proved to be divisive with its more mainstream sound - leading fans to speculate that they’d been strongarmed into it by their label. But in this classic 2009 Metal Hammer interview, guitarist Adam D reveals that it was all down to the band themselves.

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