“Some of the people I thought were good were actually bad. I felt a lot of betrayal and uncertainty”: Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach explains the trauma and anger behind new album This Consequence

Killswitch Engage in 2024.

Killswitch Engage will release their first album in six years, This Consequence, next month – and they have six years of pent-up fury to unfurl!

In this exclusive interview taken from the new issue of Metal Hammer, singer Jesse Leach reveals that he initially wanted to write sage songs containing “words of wisdom”, but that the band saw through the holy positivity of his lyrics. Ultimately, the frontman’s penned 10 savage tracks, laced with trauma and anger from the COVID-19 pandemic.