Killswitch Engage was a difficult record to make

After all, Killswitch Engage was a difficult record to make, and during its gestation, the band faced some of the greatest challenges of their 10-year career. Support In an effort to break the mold of their last two similarly structured albums, 2004′s The End of Heartache and 2006′s As Daylight Dies, Killswitch started writing new material in September 2008 and wrangling in ideas through the end of December. In the end, they demoed 16 songs that incorporated a stunning, virtuosic array of jazzy prog rock, atmospheric psychedelia, and ’80s fist-in-the-sky metal, along with their trademark thrash and metalcore parts.

Then, the bandmates upped the ante by leaving the safety of their home away from home, Westfield, Massachusetts’ Zing studio, and working for the first time with an outside producer, hit maker Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen, AC/ DC, Mastodon). Server Status It wasn’t a match made in rock-and-roll heaven. Not long after they arrived at O’Brien’s posh Atlanta studio, Killswitch felt so uncomfortable that Dutkiewicz, D’Antonio, and guitarist Joel Stroetzel packed up and returned to Westfield to finish recording with Dutkiewicz, who produced all the band’s previous records, at the helm.

As for Jones, he was going through some major issues of his own. Knowledgebase Although he won’t really talk about it, the intensely personal lyrics of Killswitch Engage say it all. Songs like “Never Again,” “The Return,” and “This Is Goodbye” seem to chronicle a seriously damaged relationship that ends in pieces (girl betrays boy, boy leaves girl, boy returns to girl, girl screws boy over again, boy leaves girl and becomes suicidal).

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