Grammy-nominated and Gold-selling hard rock heavyweights KILLSWITCH ENGAGE have announced their eighth album Atonement, out August 16 on Metal Blade Records. The album is available for pre-order here.
The band has also shared the first song “Unleashed”, which premiered on SiriusXM’s Liquid Metal and Octane.
Watch the visualizer for the song here and here.
“‘Unleashed’ is about inner passion and rage coming up to the surface,” said singer Jesse Leach. “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. I feel we were able to capture something raw and intense on this song and I’m stoked for everyone to hear it! The new album Atonement is a reflection of perseverance and passion through the trials and suffering of our existence.“
Indeed, Atonement is the culmination of a trying and turbulent two-year period. KsE started kicking around ideas for the album as early as 2017. The band recorded the bulk of the material separately on both coasts. However, in the middle of the process, a polyp developed scar tissue in Leach’s throat, forcing him to undergo surgery. The intense three-month recovery ended with speech therapy, vocal therapy, and scream therapy. The band ultimately emerged with an album that is further evidence of their undeniable legacy as one of the most enduring metal bands of the last two decades and beyond.
The elaborate illustration on the Atonement album cover was created by none other than talented UK based artist Richey Beckett (Metallica, Mastodon) with the band’s own Mike D’Antonio handling art direction and layout duties.
ATONEMENT TRACK LISTING:
01. Unleashed
02. The Signal Fire [Featuring Howard Jones]
03. Us Against the World
04. The Crownless King [Featuring Chuck Billy]
05. I Am Broken Too
06. As Sure As the Sun Will Rise
07. Know Your Enemy
08. Take Control
09. Ravenous
10. I Can’t Be the Only One
11. Bite the Hand That Feeds
KsE will spend the summer on a co-headline tour with Clutch followed by a just announced fall Europe headline tour. All confirmed dates are below.
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE + CLUTCH TOUR DATES:
07/08 – Quebec City, QC – Festival D’ete#^
07/11 – London, ON – Rock The Park#
07/12 – Syracuse, NY – SI Hall
07/13 – Inwood, WV – Earth Rocker Fest#
07/14 – Myrtle Beach, SC – House of Blues
07/16 – Fort Wayne, IN – The Clyde
07/18 – Sioux City, IA – Hard Rock & Casino
07/19 – Cadott, WI – Cadott Rock Fest#
07/20 – OshKosh, WI – Rock USA#
07/22 – Tulsa, OK – The Brady Theater
07/23 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
07/25 – Bethlehem, PA – Sands Event Center
07/26 – Asbury Park, NJ – Stone Pony Outdoors
07/27 – Montreal, QC – Heavy MTL#
07/28 – Bangor, ME – Impact Festival#
07/30 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount
08/01 – Columbus, OH – Express Live!
08/02 – Pittsburgh, PA – Stage AE Outdoors
08/03 – Port Chester, NY – Capital Theater
08/04 – Worcester, MA – Palladium Outdoors
#Festival
^KsE Only
KILLSWITCH ENGAGE IN EUROPE:
10/14 – Norwich, UK – UEA
10/15 – Bristol, UK – O2 Academy
10/17 – Glasgow, UK – Barrowland
10/18 – Manchester, UK – Academy
10/19 – Birmingham, UK – O2 Academy
10/20 – London, UK – O2 Academy Brixton
10/22 – Brussels, BEL – AB
10/23 – Amsterdam, HOL – Melkweg
10/25 – Oberhausen, GER – Turbinenhalle
10/26 – Berlin, GER – Huxleys
10/28 – Helsinki, FIN – Circus
10/30 – Stockholm, SWE – Fryshuset
10/31 – Oslo, NOR – Rockefeller
11/01 – Karlstad, SWE – Nojesfabriken
11/02 – Copenhagen, DEN – Amager Bio
11/04 – Warsaw, POL – Stodola
11/05 -Leipzig, GER – Werk 2
11/06 – Munich, GER – Tonehalle
11/08 – Lausanne, SWI – Les Docs
11/09 – Prattelen, SWI – Z7
11/10 – Nurnberg, GER – Loewensaal
