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Oh yeah, and it's about weed.
And there we were thinking we were already listening to the recently-finished Killswitch Engage album… but no, frontman Jesse Leach has simply just pranked fans with a little new reggae jam.
Though he jokingly posted the song – which is an ode to weed – on Instagram with the caption: "Exclusive Killswitch Engage leak! I repeat HOLY HELL new Killswitch, holy shit! Listen", it's in actual fact just a fun track produced by Killswitch's own Adam Dutkiewicz, and not a sign of things to come from their main band.
"No… none of it is serious calm down I’m not doing reggae," the vocalist added on the post. Well, we're not gonna complain if you do want to branch out, Jesse. Just saying…
Catch Killswitch Engage back in the UK this month and next supporting the mighty Parkway Drive.
Those dates look like this:
January
29 Manchester O2 Apollo
31 Nottingham Motorpoint Arena
February
1 Cardiff Motorpoint Arena
2 London Alexandra Palace
Grab your tickets at this link.
Following that, both bands will be hitting the States for their co-headlining Collapse The World tour in April and May.
Catch them at the following…
4/18 — San Francisco, CA — Warfield Theatre*
4/19 — Los Angeles, CA — Hollywood Palladium**
4/20 — Mesa, AZ — 98 KUPD - Ufest***
4/22 — Colorado Springs, CO — City Auditorium**
4/23 — Wichita, KS — Cotillion Ballroom*
4/24 — Oklahoma City, OK — Diamond Ballroom**
4/26 — Dallas, TX — South Side Ballroom*
4/27 — Austin, TX — Stubb's Waller Creek Amphitheater**
4/28 — Houston, TX — So What?! Music Festival***
4/30 — Kansas City, MO — Uptown Theater**
5/1 — Indianapolis, IN — Egyptian Room at Old National Centre*
5/3 — Jacksonville, FL — Welcome to Rockville^^
5/4 — Atlanta, GA — Tabernacle**
5/5 — Nashville, TN — War Memorial Auditorium*
5/7 — Niagara Falls, NY — The Rapids Theatre**
5/9 — New York, NY — Terminal 5*
5/10 — New Haven, CT — College Street Music Hall*
5/11 — Philadelphia, PA — Franklin Music Hall (Outdoors)**
5/12 — Rockingham, NC — Epicenter^^
5/12 — Myrtle Beach, SC — House of Blues^
5/14 — Silver Spring, MD — The Fillmore Silver Spring*
5/15 — Detroit, MI — The Fillmore Detroit**
5/16 — Milwaukee, WI — Eagles Club Stage*
5/17-19 — Columbus, OH — Sonic Temple***
* Killswitch Engage closes show
** Parkway Drive closes show
*** Festival
^^ Festival — KsE only
^ Parkway Drive only