It will be the band’s first headlining run since 2022
Killswitch Engage are returning to the road next spring. The three-time GRAMMY-nominated and platinum-selling metalcore titans will embark on a North American run beginning on March 5 in Nashville. The run features support from Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King, and Frozen Soul, and wraps up on April 12 in Portland, Maine.
Check out the full tour itinerary below.
Fresh off a 25th anniversary performance headlining the vaunted New England Metal & Hardcore Fest last month, the band will embark on a headline run in March. It’s their first tour of North America since late 2022, as the band has been busy working on new material. The tour features support from Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King and Frozen Soul, and kicks off on March 5 in Nashville and runs through April 12 in Portland, Maine. All dates are below.
“Excited is an understatement for the way that I feel about this tour,” says Leach. “We will be playing a solid amount of new songs, as well as old. That alone makes me very stoked. On top of all that, the lineup we have chosen is a powerful and eclectic blend of hardcore and metal with Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King, and Frozen Soul. It is going to make for a really great live experience for everybody who comes to check out this tour. I feel like the band is firing on all cylinders and the timing for this tour couldn’t be more perfect. This will be a tour to be remembered…mark my words.”
The band’s latest album Atonement is out now via Metal Blade Records.
Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, on-stage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002’s Alive Or Just Breathing became avowed as a definitive album, being named among “The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer to Revolver.
Not only did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but they also garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations in the category of “Best Metal Performance” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The End of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with Killswitch Engage [2009], Disarm The Descent [2013], and their career high best bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016].
The latter two releases, along with 2019’s Atonement, would also both capture #1 on the Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. The band’s total streams are nearing 3 billion to date, while they’ve remained consummate road warriors who’ve sold out countless headline tours and have shared stages with everyone from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testament to their ability to cross genres and appeal to all fans of hard rock.
Killswitch Engage have remained a featured attraction at every major North American and European festival through the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year career as one of the most vital and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its incredible legacy.
March 5 — Nashville, TN — The Pinnacle
March 6 — Chesterfield, MO — The Factory
March 8 — Fayetteville, AR — JJ’s Live
March 9 — Oklahoma City, OK — The Criterion
March 11 — El Paso, TX — Don Haskins Center Arena
March 13 — Las Vegas, NV — The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
March 14 — Reno, NV — Grand Theatre at The Grand Sierra Resort
March 15 — Wheatland, CA — Hard Rock Live
March 17 — Garden City, ID — Revolution Concert House
March 18 — Seattle, WA — The Paramount
March 19 — Vancouver, BC — PNE Forum
March 21 — Penticton, BC — South Okanagan Events Centre
March 22 — Tsuut’ina, AB — Grey Eagle Resort & Casino
March 24 — Winnipeg, MB — Burton Cummings Theatre
March 27 — Peoria, IL — Peoria Civic Center
March 28 — Waukee, IA— Vibrant Music Hall
March 29 — La Vista, NE — The Astro
March 30 — Kansas City, MO — The Midland Theatre
April 1 — Grand Rapids, MI — GLC Live 20 Monroe
April 3 — Corbin, KY — The Corbin Arena
April 4 — Pittsburgh, PA — Stage AE
April 5 — Philadelphia, PA — Franklin Music Hall
April 6 — Greensboro, NC — Greensboro Special Events Center
April 8 — New Haven, CT — College Street Music Hall
April 9 — Buffalo, NY — Buffalo RiverWorks
April 11 — Laval, QC —Place Bell
April 12 — Portland, ME — Cross Insurance Arena
Tickets and VIP packages will be available HERE