Killswitch Engage

Read an exclusive excerpt, featuring Killswitch Engage, from Metal Blade founder Brian Slagel’s upcoming book, Swing of the Blade: More Stories from Metal Blade Records.

To help fund those tackling the COVID-19 crisis, and gift us with some new tunes, KSE has unleashed several B-sides from last year’s Atonement.

Down to single-digit copies of several Decibel back issues. Here they are, and here is your last chance to nab them.

These Decibel back issues from 2004 to 2006 are about to sell out. This is your last chance to complete your dB collection!

Happy Valentine’s Day from Decibel. We like you like you, so we made you a playlist of metal love songs — light on the power ballads.

Killswitch Engage frontman Jesse Leach talks to Decibel about the fifteen-year anniversary of Alive or Just Breathing and Killswitch’s new beer collaboration with Cigar City Brewing. 

Go behind the scenes in this Killswitch Engage documentary. 

Waldo pecks on new releases by Serpentine Dominion, Ulcerate and Whores. 

For a trio of Brooklyn seventh graders the boys of hep-hep-hepped-up, see-you-in-the-place-where-Judas-Priest-and-In-Flames-meet melodic metallers Unlocking the Truth have compiled quite a list of accomplishments over the last year or so including — though hardly limited to! — head-turning sets at Coachella, SXSW, and last Sunday’s Barclays Center NBA halftime show; signing a deal with The…

Whether it’s the weather, the water, chowda or some other supernatural force at play, Massachusetts has struck again with venerated metalcore (a deprecated term replaced by the New Wave of American Heavy Metal) outfit Killswitch Engage.