It’s been six long years since 2019’s Atonement, but Killswitch Engage are back baby with their new album This Consequence dropping in February next year.

Words by Felix Bartlett | Nov 20, 2024

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Killswitch Engage have just dropped the news that their long-awaited new album, This Consequence.

Due out on February 21, 2025 via Metal Blade, this will mark six long years since 2019’s Atonement with frontman Jesse Leach sharing that the new album is “the combination of everything the past five years has thrown at us as a band, as humans, and society as a whole. This album is just as much about everybody and their stories as it is for me about my journey personally. Sonically, I love the combination of everybody’s ideas and contributions on this album. It feels more like a collaboration than the past few records have been. When all is said and done, I wouldn’t change anything about this album.

“I think it’s the exact record we needed to make,” he adds. “I’m honoured and proud of what we all were able to create and refine through this music and message.”

They’re showing what’s to come with new single Forever Aligned, which Jesse says is a song “that is not just about us as humans, our love, and connection, but that connection to the unknown, the greater power, the universe, or God. It feels like a really good first song to release not just sonically, but lyrically, as it is all about connection. The device of world we live in could use a lot more connectivity.”

Check it out here:

Check out the tracklist for This Consequence:

1. Abandon Us
2. Discordant Nation
3. Aftermath
4. Forever Aligned
5. I Believe
6. Where It Dies
7. Collusion
8. The Fall of Us
9. Broken Glass
10. Requiem

And the album artwork: