This Consequence

I feel like I finally am comfortable in my own skin with my voice and Performance and I'm having more fun than I ever have so I'm hoping things just keep going up from here

And this consequence is such a fucking banger, dude.

Thank you, man.

Such a fucking

It's a song I still warm up with to sort of see where my voice is at before the studio.

I did it every single day before these sessions with This Consequence, a band called Edge of Sanity that I would credit as being the first band that really mixed growling and screaming with melodic vocals that I pretty much copied off of to make the Killswitch sound.

And I've said this many times, Dan Suano, who's sort of the brains behind the band who wrote and recorded everything on this record specifically, there's a song called 1536, like a time, 15.36, off the album Infernal and It's just perfect.

It's screaming and growling and singing.

So let's listen to this.

This is Diaspora Baby, the title track of Esther's forthcoming album.

I love us there.

So let's listen to this together.

I mean, it's just going to be the best time there is next week.

We're going to have a lot of fun.

We're going to play the title track from the new album, And At Once.

You're on BFM 539.5. We're going to give away a prize very soon.

Obviously, they are the early 2000s modern metal heavyweights and they're returning soon.

to this gorgeous country of ours to play what will be an incredible show at the Power Station next Friday in celebration of their most recent album, This Consequence.

If you'd like to enter the draw for that, you obviously need to have a B card.

And you've got to text me.

Almost forgot to give away this double pass to see Killswitch Engage next Friday.

Congratulations to you, Mark.

You're going to see Killswitch Engage perform next Friday at the Power Station celebrating their latest album, This Consequence.

You can also get tickets at powerstation.net.nz. And if you didn't win, you can always...

Well, it's interesting you used, uh, you, you talk about love and I just got the, the Rubber Soul, uh, reissue yesterday, and I'm reading the liner notes.

And the first thing, they pulled some quotes from John Lennon, and that's k- the first thing that they have him saying is that when he was making this album or writing the songs that became the album, was that was his ch- mental change.

It was all about love, and of course, w- we know what, ultimately happened to him.

But the al- but the music they made- I mean, they were trying to change the world even back then.

So that just naturally, all of us in Killswitch, in our early days or bands before Killswitch, very inspired by the blending of, of hardcore and punk, uh, in, in metal, rather.

Gotcha.

Now, the most recent album is This Consequence, which, uh, took a while to germinate and come to fruition.

Uh, and I, I was reading some of the reviews, and I think one of the words that comes u- up is re- You, it sounds like you were revitalized, which if you want to think about it, is kind of a backhanded compliment because it- [laughs]

That's wild.

And Simple Plan is also there for their 25th anniversary of their debut album.

It's like a pop-punk reunion.

But wait, Killswitch Engage is performing for the first time? That's surprising, right?

Yeah, they're coming off a six-year break with their new album, This Consequence.

It's like a big comeback story.

Exactly.