This Fire Burns: On ‘As Daylight Dies’, Killswitch Engage helped to define modern metalcore
After Killswitch Engage released The End Of Heartache in 2004, the metalcore band was a very, very big deal. Armed with then-new vocalist Howard Jones, the album made a big impact on metalcore’s commercial viability, which coincided with the downturn of nu-metal’s commercial viability. Bands like Lamb Of God, Chimaira, Shadows Fall, Bleeding Through, and…
