This Day In Music History: May 21st, 2002 – Killswitch Engage releases landmark metalcore album ‘Alive Or Just Breathing’
On a lyrical, musical, and influential level, Killswitch Engage’s 2002 sophomore album Alive Or Just Breathing is one of the most important albums in metalcore history. Arriving at a time where nu-metal was starting to lose steam as one of the dominant forms of heavy music, Killswitch Engage certainly weren’t the first metalcore band around…