Both “Numbered Days” and “My Curse” showcase the band’s uncanny strength in a live setting.
Killswitch Engage are still alive, still breathing and very much back in the game. Of the four special-edition bonus tracks, “Blood Stains” is the heaviest. Nostalgia may preclude this album from being revered in quite the same way as the ones that first made us fall in love with this band, but the truth is that Disarm The Descent is a magnificent return to form. The standout single “In Due Time” boasts lightning-fast fretboard work by guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, whose backing vocals blend with Leach's so closely on the melodic parts that at times a third harmonic overtone can be heard popping out of the mix. When both voices are simultaneously singing ”Lead me out of the darkness,” it sounds like his inner Jekyll and Hyde are battling for his mortal soul.
Leach balances his throat-grating screams and shrieks with melodic and soulful crooning. The opening cut, “The Hell in Me,” is an eruption of metalcore played faster than anything heard on preceding Killswitch Engage recordings. But don’t think of 2013’s Disarm the Descent as a nostalgic reunion album.
After the departure of singer Howard Jones, Killswitch Engage began work on its sixth studio album with founding frontman Jesse Leach, who hadn’t worked with the band since 2002’s Alive or Just Breathing.
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