As everyone knows, generally it is exhausting to step in another person’s sneakers. And for Jesse Leach, it occurred to be attempting to fill the sneakers of former Killswitch Engage vocalist Howard Jones.
Leach initially left the band in 2002, and returned after a decade when Jones determined to go away Killswitch Engage. However earlier than taking the step to return, Leach felt insecure and determined to audition for the empty seat as a substitute of simply accepting the band’s invitation. In a current interview with Mike James Rock Present, Leach expressed that when the band known as him to fill in for Howard Jones, he mentioned no. “I wasn’t positive I might deal with doing anyone else’s materials. I might by no means sang anyone else’s songs with conviction. It felt odd to me.”
However after giving it some thought, Leach determined he would like to audition as a singer moderately than simply accepting the band’s supply, and so he did. “I requested to be placed on the checklist of individuals to check out, ‘trigger that is the place I really feel like I need to be due to primary, once more, leaving, and quantity two, turning it down the primary time they requested me. So these guys had been, like, ‘What is that this man doing?’ You understand? So I needed to show myself.”
Although he was chosen by the remainder of the band, Leach was nonetheless a bit insecure at first due to the stylistic variations between himself and Jones. He defined: “We’re a bit totally different, and particularly again then I did not fairly have the approach and the ability that I do now to know sing with out flaw. I would not say with out flaw, however I’ve gotten rather a lot higher. Let’s simply say that.”
Killswitch Engage‘s newest studio album, Atonement, was launched in August 2019. The album affords a wholesome development in songwriting and musicianship all all through. It options visitor appearances by the band’s former front-man Howard Jones and Testament front-man Chuck Billy. Atonement marks the band’s third full-length launch because the return of Leach, and a fourth is in the works.
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