Artist · chart history
Killswitch Engage
Band Westfield United States Formed 1999
Killswitch Engage formed in 1999 in Westfield, United States. Killswitch Engage has 16 chart appearances on 14 radio countdowns from 8 stations on RockLists, spanning 2002–2025. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Holy Diver”, which appears on 3 lists with a best position of #10. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Killswitch Engage most often is WCCC The Rock (Hartford, CT), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2020.
Killswitch Engage came out of Westfield, Massachusetts, playing metalcore with melody to spare: crushing riffs, breakdowns and choruses you could sing along to at the top of your lungs. Joel Stroetzel and Adam Dutkiewicz handle the guitars (Dutkiewicz started out behind the kit), Mike D'Antonio plays bass and Justin Foley drums.
Jesse Leach sang on the first two albums, including Alive or Just Breathing in 2002, with "Self Revolution", and then left. Howard Jones stepped in, and The End of Heartache, in 2004, was the breakthrough: it reached number 21 on the Billboard 200, went gold, and its title track got a Grammy nomination for Best Metal Performance. "Rose of Sharyn" came off that one too. As Daylight Dies, in 2006, went platinum, and so did its single, the anthemic "My Curse".
After Jones departed, Leach came back to the microphone. Disarm the Descent, in 2013, was the first album of his return, cracked the American top 10 and brought another Grammy nomination for "In Due Time", with a third later coming for "Unleashed". Incarnate and Atonement kept the countdowns busy, and their ninth album, This Consequence, arrived on February 21, 2025.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Killswitch Engage on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holy Diver | 3 | #10 | – | 2007 | |
| 2 | I Can't Be The Only One | 2 | #10 | – | 2020 | |
| 3 | I Am Broken Too | 2 | #10 | – | 2019 | |
| 4 | The End of Heartache | 1 | #1 | 1 | 2004 | |
| 5 | Rose of Sharyn | 1 | #48 | – | 2005 | |
| 6 | I Believe This Consequence | 1 | #51 | – | 2025 | |
| 7 | My Curse | 1 | #56 | – | 2006 | |
| 8 | The End of the Heartache | 1 | #57 | – | 2004 | |
| 9 | Self Revolution | 1 | #64 | – | 2002 | |
| 10 | In Due Time | 1 | #22 | – | 2013 | |
| 11 | Hate by Design | 1 | #29 | – | 2016 | |
| 12 | The Arms of Sorrow | 1 | #105 | – | 2007 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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