Killswitch Engage do it all: Sermon-on-the-Mount proclamations, machine-gun drumming, guitars that needle and poke, plus all plaintive wails. Their albums are stunning collections of contemporary metal with combining elements of hardcore. Their signature musical brutality is teasing with electric hooks and a strategic use of silence. Killswitch Engage’s sophistication and breathtaking originality provides the band with a worldwide following of fans. Killswitch Engage has a grammy award for Best Metal Performance standing in a cupboard somewhere in native Massachusetts. They are indeed an absolutely awesome live band. On stage, they’re coming on with an intensity that does not give in.