* 1980 – Joel Stroetzel, American guitarist ( Killswitch Engage and Aftershock )

A zoetrope was used in the filming the music video for " My Last Serenade " by Killswitch Engage.

* Adam Dutkiewicz, guitarist of metalcore band Killswitch Engage.

In some core songs, such as " My Last Serenade " by Killswitch Engage, the guitars are tuned to Dropped C and the low tension of the strings are used to create fret buzz by the bass player, to create a dirty sound.

The melodic influence of the Gothenburg sound has spread to the United States to more hardcore punk and metalcore groups such as Himsa, Bleeding Through, and Killswitch Engage.

Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic commented " riff upon riffs are piled sky-high into each number that follows, it's the unpredictable rhythmic shifts used to build and then relieve internal pressure that fuel the Killswitch Engage power source ".

Killswitch Engage at Rock im Park in 2007.

Killswitch Engage played the Reading and Leeds Festivals in August 2006, having already played Australian dates without Dutkiewicz, who was suffering from back problems and needed corrective surgery.

Killswitch Engage entered the studio in October 2008 to start recording their next album with Dutkiewicz and Brendan O ' Brien co-producing the album.

" From March to May, Killswitch Engage was a part of Disturbed's Music as a Weapon IV festival along with Lacuna Coil, Chimaira, Suicide Silence, Bury Your Dead and more.

On April 14, the band announced the name of their album as Killswitch Engage, the second time the band has self-titled an album.

In July and August, Killswitch Engage took part in Mayhem Festival with headliners Marilyn Manson, Slayer, Bullet for My Valentine and others.

In February 2010, Killswitch Engage announced that vocalist Howard Jones would not be performing with Killswitch Engage during their winter tour with The Devil Wears Prada and Dark Tranquillity ; during the time, All That Remains vocalist Philip Labonte was substituting for Jones until he could return.

Afterward, Killswitch Engage took a break from the road, and its members pursued other interests.

D ' Antonio started the hardcore band Death Ray Vision, with Shadows Fall vocalist Brian Fair and former Killswitch Engage guitarist Pete Cortese.

D ' Antonio stated, " Currently, everyone is individually writing demos for the next Killswitch Engage record.

" Adam Dutkiewicz followed that up with a statement on the Killswitch Engage Facebook, saying " YO!

" On December 1, 2011, Mike D ' Antonio posted online that Killswitch Engage should be entering the studio around February / March 2012 to record their sixth album expected around summer 2012.

He likewise thanked the other members of Killswitch Engage and the fans for standing by him and for the many experiences they shared, and also left the door open for further musical endeavors in the future.

Like many metalcore bands, Killswitch Engage incorporates both singing and screaming vocals in their music.

In 2009, MTV, while naming " The Greatest Metal Bands of All Time " referred to Killswitch Engage as " one of the founders of metalcore ".

" On the lyrical themes of Killswitch Engage, Ultimate Guitar reviewer Amy Sciarretto notes:

Killswitch Engage, Arch Enemy, Machine Head, God Forbid, Iced Earth, Children of Bodom, Zao, Throwdown, Bleeding Through, A Perfect Murder, All My Sins, All That Remains, As I Lay Dying, The Autumn Offering, Between The Buried And Me, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Bled, Burnt By The Sun, Bury Your Dead, Byzantine, Cannae, Cattle Decapitation, Comeback Kid, Crematorium, Darkest Hour, Daughters, Deadwater Drowning, Diecast, Ed Gein, Embrace Today, Evergreen Terrace, Evergrey, Every Time I Die, Found Dead Hanging, From A Second Story Window, Full Blown Chaos, Glass Casket, The Judas Cradle, Kataklysm, Martyr AD, Misery Index, Misery Signals, Mortal Treason, Most Precious Blood, NORA, Pig Destroyer, The Red Chord, Reflux, Scar Culture, Scarlet, Since The Flood, Six Feet Under, Soilent Green, Speedkillhate, Terror, Through The Discipline, To The Grave, Twelve Tribes, Walls of Jericho, Watch them Die, What Weapons Bring War

* Bane, Brother's Keeper, Buried Alive, Converge, Eighteen Visions, Every Time I Die, The Hope Conspiracy, Idle Hands, Killswitch Engage, NORA, One King Down, Poison The Well, Shai Hulud, Bloodjinn, This Day Forward, Turmoil, Walls of Jericho, ZAO

* Earth Crisis, Hatebreed, Candiria, Diecast, Killswitch Engage, Most Precious Blood, NORA, Poison the Well, Shai Hulud, Another Victim, Skycamefalling, This Day Forward, Twelve Tribes, Walls of Jericho, Bloodjinn, Every Time I Die, Martyr AD, Santa Sangre, God Below, All Else Failed, Cataract, Ensign, From Autumn to Ashes, Bleeding Through, Lamb of God, Reach the Sky, Brother's Keeper, Until the End, Lariat, Curl up and Die, Thursday, Mastodon, Sworn Enemy, If Hope Dies, Blood Has Been Shed, Unearth, Wrong the Oppressor, Kalibas, Standfast, Eighteen Visions, Arkangel, Pig Destroyer, Rembering Never, Premonitions of War, Destro, Garrison, Maharahj, A Death For Every Sin, Creation Is Crucifixion, Cipher, In Dying Days

* 25 Ta Life, 100 Demons, A Life Once Lost, A Thousand Falling Skies, The Acacia Strain, Adelphi, Agnostic Front, The A. K. A. s, Alexisonfire, All Else Failed, All That Remains, Andrew W. K., Anterrabae, As I Lay Dying, The Ataris, The Autumn Offering, Avail, Bad Luck 13 Riot Extravaganza, Bane, The Banner, Bear Vs. Shark, Beloved, Between The Buried And Me, BigWig, Blacklisted, Bleeding Through, Blood for Blood, Breath of Silence, Brokeneck, The Bronx, Burnt by the Sun, Caliban, The Calico System, Champion, Comeback Kid, Converge, Day of Contempt, The Dead Season, Dead to Fall, Death by Stereo, XdeathstarX, Death Threat, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Draw Blood, DRI, Drive Without, Drowingman, Dry Kill Logic, E-Town Concrete, Embrace Today, Endwell, Engineer, Ensign, Evergreen Terrace, Every Time I Die, Fear Before the March of Flames, Fear Factory, Flat Earth Society, Folly, For the Love of, Fordirelifesake, Forever is Forgotten, From a Second Story Window, Found Dead Hanging, Full Blown Chaos, Glasseater, Halifax, Hawthorne Heights, The Hope Conspiracy, HORSE the Band, If Hope Dies, I Killed The Prom Queen, In Flames, It Dies Today, The Judas Cradle, The Juliana Theory, The Killing, Killswitch Engage, Last Perfection, Let It Die, Life of Agony, Love is Red, Malice Afterthought, Martyr AD, Mastodon, Merauder, Mest, The Minor Times, Misery Signals, Misfits, Misery Index, Most Precious Blood, Nag Hamadi, No Hollywood Ending, No Redeeming Social Value, No Warning, NORA, Norma Jean, Nothing Left to Mourn, The Number Twelve Looks Like You, Odd Project, Only Crime, Park, Pig Destroyer, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Prayer for Cleansing, Premonitions of War, The Promise, Psyopus, The Red Chord, Reflux, Remembering Never, Roses are Red, Scars of Tomorrow, Shadows Fall, Shai Hulud, Shattered Realm, Sick of it All, Spitalfield, Stabbed by Words, Stars Turn Cold, Stretch Arm Strong, Strike Anywhere, Suffocate Faster, Suffocation, Sworn Enemy, Sycamore Dreams, Terror, Time in Malta, To The Grave, Today Is The Day, Through the Discipline, Throwdown, Underoath, Undying, Unearth, Until The End, Walk the Line, Walls of Jericho, Wings of Scarlet, With Dead Hands Rising, With Honor, World Inferno Friendship Society, Your Enemies Friends, Zao, Zombie Apocalypse

Featuring live performances from Killswitch Engage, Every Time I Die, Eighteen Visions, Converge, Shai Hulud, Poison the Well, The Hope Conspiracy, Walls of Jericho and more.

Several members of contemporary metalcore bands are practicing Christians, including members of Zao, The Devil Wears Prada, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, August Burns Red, Texas in July, Oh, Sleeper and Underoath.

Artists from bands as diverse as 3 Doors Down, Slipknot, Nickleback, Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, In Flames, Danko Jones, H. I. M., Children Of Bodom, Trivium and many more acknowledge either being influenced by Waters ' writing or guitar playing or simply just being a fan of the band or his guitar playing.

They have toured as part of Ozzfest, Sounds of the Underground and Warped Tour, as well as with bands like In Flames, Lamb of God, As I Lay Dying, Killswitch Engage, Korn and Cavalera Conspiracy.

The band was a part of the Soundwave tour in Australia and in Asia in February 2008, along with Killswitch Engage, As I Lay Dying, and Bleeding Through.

They followed with a support tour for US groups Killswitch Engage and Lamb of God, The Sydney show had 3, 500 patrons at Luna Park, where I Killed the Prom Queen also played at the annual Come Together Music Festival.

* Above This Fire, The Acacia Strain, Auschwitz, Against Me !, As Cities Burn, As I Lay Dying, Anterrabae The Banner, Bedlight for Blue Eyes, Between the Buried and Me, Bloodlined Calligraphy, Bloodjinn, Bold, Bouncing Souls, Cancer Bats, The Casualties, The Chariot, Chimaira, Coalesce, Converge, Cryptopsy, Cursed, Emery, Ensign, From Autumn to Ashes, Full Blown Chaos, Good Clean Fun, Gym Class Heroes, Haste the Day, Hatebreed, Hidden in Plain View, Hit the Lights, Killswitch Engage, It Dies Today, Lifetime, Madball, Misery Signals, Misfits, Most Precious Blood, Nile, NORA, Norma Jean, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Public Enemy, Remembering Never, Rise Against, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Sick of it All, Silverstein, Six Feet Under, Spitalfield, Strike Anywhere, Terror, This is Hell, Throwdown, Unearth, Youth of Today, Zao, 108, 3 Inches of Blood

Artists from bands as diverse as 3 Doors Down, Slipknot, Nickleback, Megadeth, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, In Flames, Danko Jones, H. I. M., Children Of Bodom, Johannes " Axeman " Losbäck of WOLF Trivium and many more acknowledge either being influenced by Waters ' writing or guitar playing or simply just being a fan of the band or his guitar playing.

18 Visions, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, A Life Once Lost, All Else Failed, Arkangel, Arma Angelus, All That Remains, As Hope Dies, Asherah, American Nightmare, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Bleeding Through, Between the Buried and Me, Blood Brothers, Bloodjinn, Bloodlet, Brandtson, Breaking Pangea, Breathe In, Burnt By The Sun, The Cancer Conspiracy, Caliban, Candiria, Codeseven, Coheed and Cambria, Count the Stars, Commit Suicide, Cro-Mags, Curl up and Die, CKY, Dead to Fall, Dead Wrong, Death Threat, Diecast, Drowningman, Ed Gein, Eiffel, Ensign, Evergreen Terrace, Everytimeidie, Face the Fact ( Italy hardcore ), Fall Silent, From Autumn to Ashes, Found Dead Hanging, The Funeral, Glasseater, God Forbid, Hatebreed, Himsa, The Hope Conspiracy, The Hoods, Harakiri, Haste, Hopesfall, Hope and Suicide, Homesick for Space, If Hope Dies, In Pieces, Jesuseater, The June Spirit, Kalibas, Killswitch Engage, Knives Out, Lamb of God, Light Is the Language, Lickgoldensky, Long Since Forgotten, Love is Red, Martyr ad, Most Precious Blood, Moneen, Nemesis, Nora, Norma Jean, Not Waving But Drowning, xOne Fifthx, One Nation Under, On the Might of Princes, Open Hand, The Promise, Reach the Sky, The Rise, The Red Chord, Remembering Never, Ringworm, Saving Throw, Shai Hulud, Skycamefalling, Season of Fire, Static Lullaby, Stretch Arm Strong, Suicide Note, Sworn Enemy, Taken, Terror, This Afternoon, This Day Forward, Throwdown, Unearth, Undying, Until the End, The Wage of Sin, What Feeds the Fire, XdiscipleX a. d., Your Enemies Friends

The first Headbangers Ball compilation featured " Raining Blood " by Slayer as its live track, the second compilation used an in-studio performance of " My Tortured Soul " by Probot, and the latest compilation had two live tracks: " A Bid Farewell " by Killswitch Engage and " Now You've Got Something To Die For " by Lamb of God.

From July 13 to August 28, 2012, God Forbid took part in Metal Hammer's " Trespass America Festival " headlined by Five Finger Death Punch with additional support from Battlecross, Emmure, Pop Evil, Trivium and Killswitch Engage.

* " For You ", by Killswitch Engage from As Daylight Dies

For recording " Killswitch Engage " ( 2009 ), he used a Diezel VH4.

The soundtrack was released on August 26, 2005 by Lakeshore Records, which features metal bands by Atreyu, Lacuna Coil, Diecast, Burning Brides, Ill Niño, Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall, It Dies Today, Trivium and more.

* American Nightmare, Atreyu, Avenged Sevenfold, Bane, Between the Buried and Me, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bleeding Through, Blood Has Been Shed, Bury Your Dead, CKY, Codeseven, Coheed and Cambria, Cro-Mags, Diecast, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Eighteen Visions, Ensign, From Autumn to Ashes, God Forbid, Hatebreed, The Hope Conspiracy, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Martyr AD, Misfits, Moneen, Norma Jean, The Red Chord, Shai Hulud, Shattered Realm, Terror, Throwdown, Unearth, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Season of Fire, the Last Season ( ex-Godbelow ), Ringworm, Merauder, Nemesis ( Freya / Earth Crisis ), Himsa