Killswitch Engage

I know I just talked about all those bands that basically have keg parties on stage while they play … but these guys just do it so much better than all those other bands. The music thing, that is, not the partying thing. Although they’re quite skilled at that as well. Lots of bands can get on a stage and thrash for an hour, but the Massachusetts metalheads just destroy a stage when they come out to play. Loathe as I am toward the concept of a metal and hardcore show where the audience is sectioned off like at the Wiltern, I can say with the utmost certainty that even the poor saps at the top of the seated balcony will still have their eardrums throttled by this band. - Brien Overly