Killswitch Engage’s Jesse Leach Has Started a New Hardcore Band
If you’re a Killswitch Engage fan you probably already know that vocalist Jesse Leach is the resident hardcore dude in the band, the punk counter to Adam D.’s Metal McMetalguy riff machine. The combination of punk and metal, of course — a combination that now seems novel — is what first made Killswitch into Killswitch back in the day.
Now Leach is getting back to his roots: he’s started a new hardcore project with three unidentified musicians, all of whom jammed together for the first time yesterday in NY. Explains Leach via Instagram:
It’s been a long time coming man! Woke up with a fire in my heart! These 4 albums serve as inspiration for a jam session today with 3 killer humans! Don’t tell anyone ????but I’ve put together a punk hardcore band/project for fun and today is our first jam session here in NY! To say I’m excited is a vast understatement! Now I just need to hack my car out of a couple of feet of ice! Stay tuned, you know I gotta big mouth on here and I’ll drop details or a sample track as soon as I have them. This is a side project and it is being done for the pure enjoyment of playing. It is also a necessary outlet for a singing/yelling style and lyrics I can’t fit into any other band or project I’ve ever done. My 15 year old self is quite proud of me! GO!!!!!!!
I have next to zero knowledge of hardcore or any of the bands Leach references here, so I’m not sure this project will really be for me… but, at the very least, maybe it’s an opportunity to educate myself on some of what I missed while I was busy air-guitaring to Ozzy and Metallica in my bedroom mirror.
Check out his post below. We will, of course, keep you apprised of any developments concerning the new band.
