Killswitch Engage announce spring 2025 headline tour, stop at Buffalo RiverWorks

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Three-time Grammy-nominated hard rock heavyweights and Platinum-selling band Killswitch Engage – Jesse Leach, vocals; Adam Dutkiewicz, guitar; Joel Stroetzel, guitar; Mike D'Antonio, bass; and Justin Foley, drums – are returning to the road this winter and spring.

The tour features support from Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King and Frozen Soul, and includes a stop at Buffalo RiverWorks in Buffalo on April 9, 2025.

Fresh off a 25th anniversary performance headlining the vaunted New England Metal & Hardcore Fest last month, the band will embark on a headline run in March. It's their first tour of North America since late 2022, as the band has been busy working on new material.

Tickets and VIP packages will be available here.

"Excited is an understatement for the way that I feel about this tour," Leach said. "We will be playing a solid amount of new songs, as well as old. That alone makes me very stoked. On top of all that, the lineup we have chosen is a powerful and eclectic blend of hardcore and metal with Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King, and Frozen Soul. It is going to make for a really great live experience for everybody who comes to check out this tour. I feel like the band is firing on all cylinders and the timing for this tour couldn’t be more perfect. This will be a tour to be remembered ... mark my words."

The band's latest album, “Atonement,” is out now via Metal Blade Records.

In other KsE news, the band has teamed up with Revolver for a special collector's edition deluxe magazine that is "must own" for fans!

Revolver celebrates Killswitch Engage's 25th anniversary with this issue. In new, exclusive interviews, the band members tell the story of Killswitch Engage in their own words – from the group's humble beginnings to the dramatic lineup changes to their rise to the top of the new wave of American heavy metal movement.

This 100-page deluxe magazine is thicker than a standard issue of Revolver, without any ads, features embossed type, and UV coating on its covers, as well as rare, all-access photography throughout.

The Killswitch Engage special collector's issue comes with two alternate, collectible covers: a band cover with photography by Travis Shinn, and an illustrated cover by the group's own bassist and resident visual artist D'Antonio.

More about Killswitch Engage

Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, on-stage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy.

2002's “Alive Or Just Breathing” became avowed as a definitive album, being named among "The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade" by Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer to Revolver. 

Not only did the band bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but it also garnered three Grammy Award nominations in the category of Best Metal Performance in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively; a Gold certification for “The End of Heartache” (2004); and a Platinum certification for “As Daylight Dies” (2006). The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with “Killswitch Engage” (2009), “Disarm The Descent” (2013), and their career high best bow at No. 6 with “Incarnate” (2016). The latter two releases, along with 2019's “Atonement,” would also both capture No. 1 on the top rock albums and top hard rock albums charts.

The band's total streams are nearing 3 billion to date, while members have remained consummate road warriors who've sold out countless headline tours and have shared stages with everyone from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testament to their ability to cross genres and appeal to all fans of hard rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at every major North American and European festival through the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year career as one of the most vital and genre-defining bands of the '00s, and continues its incredible legacy.