Killswitch Engage reveal "Unleashed", set date for Atonement

Killswitch Engage's new album is a reflection of perseverance

Massachusetts metalcore band Killswitch Engage have announced the release date for their upcoming 8th studio album. Titled Atonement, the album is due for release August 16th on Metal Blade Records, and is the follow-up to 2016's Incarnate. To preview the album, the band have revealed the first single from the release, the opening track, "Unleashed", which you can listen to below.

Regarding the new single, vocalist Jesse Leach has said about the song;

"Unleashed is about inner passion and rage coming up to the surface. We all have that wild within that often stays dormant until a tragic event triggers and awakens it. This song is about that awakening within"

The new album is the third album to feature Jesse Leach after his return in 2013's terrific Disarm the Descent. Atonement's most anticipated song perhaps (at least in our eyes), is the second track "Signal the Fire", which features guest vocals from the man who voiced KsE for a decade, Howard Jones. We have fluctuated between preferring Leach at the vocals to Jones at the vocals all through the KsE discography- teased by how Leach songs sounded with Jones singing ("Fixation on the Darkness") and how Jones songs sounded with Leach singing, but the thought of having them both sing together on one song..................

Atonement has been in the making since 2017, but was temporarily derailed after Leach had to undergo throat surgery. Killswitch Engage will hit the road across North America all through July before jetting off to Europe in October.

Listen to "Unleashed":