New Killswitch Engage album has another silly title

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by Raziq Rauf [Edit this content] ▾ 6 comments 11:42 August 31st, 2006

Massachusetts metalcore merchants, Killswitch Engage are set to release their third album this autumn

The quintet, fresh from a staggeringly good Main Stage performance at The Carling Weekend, are to give As Daylight Dies to the masses on November 21 via Roadrunner Records.

They're actually still finishing it off but that's not why they've gone for such an emo title. I don't actually know the reason but it reminds me of such ridiculously overblown names as It Dies Today and a Scottish metal band which has a similar name that I just can't remember right now. Needless to say, it causes a chuckle.

Since their astonishingly wicked breakthrough album, The End Of Heartache, got Grammy-nominated and their DVD sold loads, there will be lots of interest in this record. It will also probably be wicked.

It's really good because KsE have got a Mike D and so has DiS! Their one is probably better at bass guitar though!

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what is a killswitch

is that like something you get in a 'leccy chair?

prole-art-threat | 31 Aug '06, 11:48 | X | Reply

they're not usually self operated

i wouldn't have thought

-Raz- @prole-art-threat | 31 Aug '06, 11:56 | X | Reply

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Killswitch is an circuit-breaking instrument on a guitar for cutting off the signal without having to resort to pedals or mute buttons on the amp.

On other instruments like computers and mechanical devices, a kill switch has a similar function, being used to terminate a function completely - regardless of whether doing so would be damaging to the machine, in contrast to the on/off switch, which terminates a function in a way that isn't damaging.

KillSwitch Engage are an Emo band with a metal name and... I suppose metallic riffs.