Killswitch Engage Will Tour with… Rise Against and Letlive?

As I was just saying, Killswitch Engage are a treat to see live: they’re just so much FUN! Sometimes I forget, and then I see them live for the first time in a while and I’m like, “Oh, yeah, Killswitch Engage. FUCK YES!”

So this summer I will have my enthusiasm amped up and ready to go when Killswitch Engage hit the road, knowing full well what I’m getting into before I walk into the venue. They’ll be supporting Rise Against, which is a surprise to me — I had no idea Rise Against were so huge, but I guess they’re a big deal? I hardly know anything about them other than that their guitarist riffs mightily in Vanishing Life. Letlive will be opening, another band about whom I know basically nothing. I suppose this is Killswitch Engage’s attempt at reaching into the tangential Warped Tour market, which they’ve certainly dabbled in before. It’s a far cry from the metal tours they’re usually on, and I guess they feel like they’ve tapped that market out on this touring cycle.

Here are dates, via Lambgoat:

7/17 Chicago, IL @ FirstMerit Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island
7/19 Toronto, ON @ TD Echo Beach
7/21 Montreal, QC @ Olympia de Montreal
7/22 Philadelphia, PA @ Festival Pier at Penn’s Landing
7/24 Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
7/25 Pittsburgh, PA @ Stage AE
7/26 Asbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony Summer Stage
7/28 New York, NY @ Central Park SummerStage
7/29 Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
7/31 Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
8/2 Winnipeg, MB @ Burton Cummings Theatre
8/4 Calgary, AB @ Big Four
8/5 Edmonton, AB @ Shaw Conference Centre
8/7 Seattle, WA @ Showbox SODO
8/9 Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
8/11 San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
8/13 Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
8/16 Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium