News: Killswitch Engage tour includes Hawaii
| KILLSWITCH ENGAGE TO RETURN TO HAWAII FOR FIRST TIME IN 13 YEARS! U.S. HEADLINE TOUR UNDERWAY + AFTERSHOCK APPEARANCE SET FOR OCTOBER 1 NEW ALBUM THIS CONSEQUENCE OUT NOW VIA METAL BLADE Killswitch Engage — Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D’Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums — are returning to Hawaii to perform a show at The Republik in Honolulu on November 17. It’s the first time the band has played the state since 2013. They will be making their way back from Australia and felt a return to Hawaii was long overdue, and they are thrilled to finally get back to The Aloha State. All international dates are here. Killswitch Engage are currently on the second leg of their U.S. headline run with Machine Head, Rivers of Nihil, and Judiciary. The dates run through October, wrapping with an appearance at Aftershock. All upcoming dates are below. Get tickets here. KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ON TOUR: WITH MACHINE HEAD, RIVERS OF NIHIL, + JUDICIARY: 9/24 — Salt Lake, UT — Union 9/25 — Missoula, MT — Kettlehouse Amphitheater 9/27 — Spokane, WA Spokane Live 9/28 — Portland, OR — Roseland 9/29 — Seattle, WA — The Neptune Theatre 10/1 — Sacramento, CA — Aftershock* 11/17 — Honolulu, HI — The Republik *KsE Festival Appearance |
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| KsE’s latest album THIS CONSEQUENCE is out now via Metal Blade. Get it here. The album arrived alongside a hugely successful Winter/Spring 2025 tour, yielded a Top 5 single with “I Believe,” which peaked at No. 3, and landed the band on the covers of Revolver and Outburn. The album was another reminder of why KsE, who have earned several gold and platinum certifications alongside three Grammy nominations, remain one of the most enduring bands of the modern metal scene. |
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| ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE: Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, onstage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002’s Alive Or Just Breathing became avowed as a definitive album, being named among “The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer to Revolver. Not only did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but they also garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations in the category of “Best Metal Performance” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The End of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with Killswitch Engage [2009], Disarm The Descent[2013], and their career high best bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases, along with 2019’s Atonement, would also both capture #1 on the Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. The band’s total streams are well over 3 billion to date, while they’ve remained consummate road warriors who’ve sold out countless headline tours and have shared stages with everyone from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testament to their ability to cross genres and appeal to all fans of hard rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at every major North American and European festival through the years. The band recently celebrated an astonishing, 25-year career as one of the most vital and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its incredible legacy and released This Consequence, which boasted the biggest radio hit of the band’s career with “I Believe.” The song peaked at No. 3 on the charts, with the album garnering significant press accolades, including Forbes, a Revolver cover, and SPIN. |
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