Atonement by Killswitch Engage

Atonement, Killswitch Engage's eighth studio album, landed on August 16, 2019, and it broke a long habit: it was their first album since 2000 to come out somewhere other than Roadrunner, arriving on Metal Blade instead. Adam Dutkiewicz produced, as well as playing guitar alongside Joel Stroetzel, with Jesse Leach back on lead vocals, Mike D'Antonio on bass and Justin Foley on drums.

It's metalcore with the dials turned up: Leach swinging from a roar to a big clean melody and back, the guitars pummelling and then opening out into big melodic lifts. "Unleashed" came first and picked up the band's third Grammy nomination, and "I Am Broken Too" followed with a video. The band hit the road with Clutch on a co-headlining North American tour, and in 2020 six leftover songs from the sessions became a charity EP for COVID-19 relief that raised over $30,000.

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