Song · Killswitch Engage
“Hate by Design” by Killswitch Engage
From the album Incarnate (2016)
“Hate by Design” by Killswitch Engage appears on 1 radio countdown from 1 station in 2016. It was first released in 2016 on the album Incarnate. Its best result is #29 on the SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #29 hard rock song of 2016.
Killswitch Engage sent "Hate by Design" out on January 29, 2016 as the second single from Incarnate, the American metalcore band's seventh album, and it's a protest song with its fists up. Jesse Leach's lyrics preach acceptance while taking aim at the bigotry and ignorance around him, and he told Metal Hammer the song was his reaction to watching the news until the ugliness of the world got under his skin.
Loudwire heard it toying with the listener at the start, holding back with playful rests and piling on the tension before the verse finally rips open, and Metal Injection's Greg Kennelty called it a callback to the band's older sound. It came with a black-and-white video and reached 22 on the US Mainstream Rock chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 29 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2016 | 30 |
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