History Music / KillswitchEngage

* SoloSideProject: The list of side projects members of the band have been involved in is as long as your arm.

* Music/HeavyMetal -- Though some purists would argue that since they're metalcore, they're merely a form of hardcore punk...

* NamesTheSame: If it's possible to do so, try not to mistake this frontman with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Jones_(musician) that other Howard Jones]].

* ThePeteBest -- Jesse Leach left just as the band was finding mainstream success. If anybody who isn't a hardcore fan knows of him, it's because of "My Last Serenade", though now he's back to fix this.

* NotChristianRock --The band is often assumed to be Christian due to former vocalist Jesse Leach's faith.

* ThePeteBest -- Jesse Leach. If anybody knows of him, it's because of "My Last Serenade", though now he's back to fix this.

* ThePeteBest -- Jesse Leach. If anybody knows of him, it's because of "My Last Serenade",

* SelfTitledAlbum -- Their debut.
** And their fifth album.

Original singer Jesse Leach was replaced with former Blood Has Been Shed singer Howard Jones for almost a decade, before returning when Howard quit.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[CriticalResearchFailure the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, [[TropeCodifier producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore]]. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[CriticalResearchFailiure the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, [[TropeCodifier producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore]]. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[DidNotDoTheResearch the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[SmallReferencePools the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "[[SmallReferencPools the founders of]] {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "the founders of {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis; the band's main innovation was fusing the sound of metalcore with the harmonized guitar melodies of MelodicDeathMetal and clean singing, producing the subgenre which would come to be known as melodic metalcore. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

The band has released five studio albums to date. MTV once called the band one of "the founders of {{metalcore}}", which is actually inaccurate as the first metalcore bands were from the early nineties and consisted of bands like Integrity and Earth Crisis. At any rate, KillswitchEngage are one of the most popular heavy groups around today, and are known as forerunners in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, along with other popular heavyweights such as {{Lamb of God}}.

* RefrainFromAssuming -- "My Curse" getting called "This is My Curse". Overlaps with GannonBanned.

Original singer Jesse Leach was replaced with former Blood Has Been Shed singer Howard Jones for almost a decade, before [[AndTheFandomRejoiced returning when Howard quit]].

* ThisIsSPARTA! -- Prechorus of "My Curse".

* Music/HeavyMetal -- Though some [[{{Hatedom}} purists]] would argue that since they're metalcore, they're [[YourMileageMayVary merely a form of hardcore punk...]]

* FaceOfTheBand -- Howard Jones, though most people only know him as "that black dude who sings".

* MisattributedSong -- Once again, "Holy Diver". There are definitely people out there who think Killswitch wrote it.
** Now that {{Dio}} is dead, if someone says that "Holy Diver" is a KSE song to a hardcore metalhead, they should plan on being tossed into a dumpster a few teeth less.

Early KillswitchEngage had Jesse Leach as the singer. In the early 2000's, however, he quit to focus on other things.

KillswitchEngage is a five-piece {{metalcore}} band from Westfield, Massachusetts, formed in the late nineties. The band currently consists of vocalist Howard Jones, guitarists Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz, bassist Mike D'Antonio and drummer Justin Foley.

* HeavyMetal -- Though some [[{{Hatedom}} purists]] would argue that since they're metalcore, they're [[YourMileageMayVary merely a form of hardcore punk...]]

* [[{{Ptitlelwo4ixfv9qsp}} Name's The Same]]: If it's possible to do so, try not to mistake this frontman with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Jones_(musician) that other Howard Jones]].

* HeavyMetal -- Though some [[{{Hatedom}} purists]] would argue that since they're metalcore, they're [[{{YMMV merely a form of hardcore punk...}}]]

* HeavyMetal -- Though some [[{{Hatedom}} purists]] would argue that since they're metalcore, they're merely a form of hardcore punk... [[spoiler: which is bullshit, because if you've ever actually listened to Killswitch, you'd know that their basic sound is a lot closer to metal than it is to hardcore punk.]]