Killswitch Engage Incarnate

DEEP CUTS: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE- WE CARRY ON

During my album deep dive into Killswitch Engage, I was quickly reminded of a song of theirs that is truly one of the best in their entire repertoire. For this one we go back to the band’s 2016 album, Incarnate, and find it at track eleven, “We Carry On.”

“We Carry On” what a song! There’s a deeply impassioned vocal performance by singer/lyricist, Jesse Leach throughout the album but, when you get to this song in the course of listening, there’s just something truly remarkable. The weight of the lyrics bellow out of Jesse’s heart into direct hit of optimism and hope. Guiding this vocal is music that hits the right melancholic notes with just the right amount of heaviness to push through the wall and make it past it all.

Songs like this are magnetic and beautiful. I distinctly recall when I bought this CD back in 2016 (Happy Ten Year Anniversary!! By the way), I put it on my stereo at home, grabbed my headphones, went to my favorite spot, pressed play and read the lyrics as I listened. When I got to “We Carry On” there was an instant connection to the song. One of those gems that deep in the track listing.

As great as this song is, it’s only been played live four times. And all in 2023. You lucky 4 shows! Just going to put this out in the universe to put “We Carry On” in the setlist going forward!! It’s too damn good not to play it!

Killswitch Engage- We Carry On:

ALBUM RANK: KILLSWITCH ENGAGE

After the decline of nu-metal in the mid 2000’s, the hunger for heavier music became rabid. The polarizing “New Wave Of American Heavy Metal” took the best of the three worlds of heavy metal, hardcore and punk and laid a forever legacy and foundation for generations to come. One of the first names that comes to mind when talking about this era is Killswitch Engage.

Killswitch Engage has the unique perspective to have essentially three chapters so far. What is really interesting about this, is to hear the evolution of a band through twists and turns both professionally and personally. These lessons play out through the music and lyrics. When listening back through all their albums, certain one of course will always be classics but, hearing the others with a different thought process makes those stand out in different ways.

Below is the Audioeclectica Album Rank of all nine Killswitch Engage studio albums.

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Top 25 Albums of 2016

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I present to you all the final list of the year,  the Top 25 Best Albums of 2016

I encourage you to vote for your favorite in the comments section. At the end of the month, I will release the results of the readers poll.

THIS LIST IS IN ORDER!!!

01) Metallica- Hardwired… To Self Destruct
02) The Dillinger Escape Plan- Dissociation
03) Every Time I Die- Low Teens
04) O’Brother- Endless Light
05) Night Verses- Into The Vanishing Light
06) Oathbreaker- Rheia
07) Gojira- Magma
08) Thrice- To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere
09) Killswitch Engage- Incarnate
10) Korn- The Serenity Of Suffering
11) Car Bomb- Meta
12) The Black Queen- Fever Daydream
13) Scour- Scour
14) Neurosis- Fires Within Fires
15) Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool
16) Moving Structures- Awake
17) Chevelle- The North Corridor
18) Giraffe Tongue Orchestra- Broken Lines
19) David Bowie- Blackstar
20) Interstelar- Resin
21) Aeges- Weightless
22) The Cult- Hidden City
23) Planes Mistaken For Stars- Prey
24) Saosin- Along The Shadow
25) Red Hot Chili Peppers- The Getaway

Honorable Mention:

Youth Code- Commitment To Complications
Norma Jean- Polar Similar
Meshuggah- The Violent Sleep Of Reason

Best Albums of 2016 So Far…Updated

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There are only a few months left till the end of the year and there have a been a slew of great albums released by bands new and old that have come out this year, with plenty more to come before 2017 arrives. Below are my favorite albums of 2016 so far…

Killswitch Engage- Incarnate:

And We Are Them- A Subtle Tyranny:

Saosin- Along The Shadows:


Moving Structures- Awake:

 


The Cult- Hidden City:

 


Thrice- To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere:

 


Red Hot Chili Peppers- The Getaway:

 

 

Night Verses- Into The Vanishing Light:

O’Brother- Endless Light:

 

Gojira- Magma:

 

 

Periphery- Periphery III Select Difficulty:

Interstelar- Resin:

 

Aeges- Weightless:

 

 

The Black Queen- Fever Daydream:

 

 

Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool:

 

Chevelle- The North Corridor:

Best Albums of 2016…So Far

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As we wrap up the first half of 2016, here are the best albums I’ve heard so far this year. And do yourself a favor and go buy them!

 

Killswitch Engage- Incarnate:

And We Are Them- A Subtle Tyranny:

Saosin- Along The Shadows:

Moving Structures- Awake:

The Cult- Hidden City:

Thrice- To Be Everywhere Is To Be Nowhere:

 

 

Gojira-Magma:

 

Red Hot Chili Peppers- The Getaway: