Former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE singer Howard Jones is engaged on his debut album. Helming the classes for the trouble is Josh Gilbert, an acclaimed producer and bassist/vocalist who beforehand performed in AS I LAY DYING and is a present member of SPIRITBOX.
Earlier at this time (Wednesday, December 18),Howard shared three pictures of him and Josh within the studio, and he included the next message: “Again within the studio, Recording a number of completely different options and tasks.
“After numerous speak it is lastly occurring. Beginning work on my first solo album, stoked to have Josh Gilbert producing.
“Extra to return quickly.”
Jones has and KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz just lately accomplished work on the debut album from their collaborative undertaking BURN ETERNAL.
Jones left KILLSWITCH ENGAGE in 2012 and battled manic despair and bipolar dysfunction earlier than forming a brand new undertaking, DEVIL YOU KNOW, with guitarist Francesco Artusato (ALL SHALL PERISH) and drummer John Sankey (DEVOLVED). Together with bassist Ryan Wombacher (BLEEDING THROUGH),they recorded and toured behind two well-received albums, 2014’s “The Magnificence Of Destruction” and 2015’s “They Bleed Crimson”. In 2017, the band modified its title to LIGHT THE TORCH.
Jones makes an look on KILLSWITCH ENGAGE‘s newest album, 2019’s “Atonement”, contributing visitor vocals to the music “The Sign Hearth”.
Jones mentioned his earlier psychological well being points in a 2016 interview with Metallic Hammer. He mentioned: “For lots of the time throughout the entire manic despair factor, I did not notice how dangerous I used to be. I believed the excessive ranges of hysteria I used to be experiencing was simply my lot in life, I did not notice that there was assist available for me to have the ability to cope with that. I believed that I used to be simply meant to really feel actually nervous round massive crowds. Now it is like being a child once more, as a result of I can cope with it, so I’ve bought my ardour again and it is nice.”
Requested what made him get again into music after leaving KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, Howard instructed Heavy New York: “Actually, I believe it was as a result of I used to be simply sort of uninterested in doing nothing and I do not do a lot else aside from music. I felt like I wanted to enterprise out as a result of I used to be principally agoraphobic for 3 years. It is sort of well-known. I went off the grid. I did not have a cellular phone for 3 years — I used to be gone. It felt, like, ‘Okay, possibly I ought to dip my toe in. I haven’t got to do it full time. I haven’t got to do what I do not wish to do.’ That is all I used to be pondering. I began transferring, I began doing issues. It was positively a wrestle, particularly for the primary few years. I used to be, like, ‘What am I doing?’ There’s been few issues in my life that has been constant aside from music. I simply did it. It simply took a while, then all the sudden, the spark confirmed up. I fell again in love with what I used to be doing. I actually cannot clarify it. It simply kind of occurred.”
Present KILLSWITCH ENGAGE singer Jesse Leach appeared on the band’s self-titled debut and sophomore album, “Alive Or Simply Respiratory”, earlier than exiting the group. Jones took over on vocals for “The Finish Of Heartache”, “As Daylight Dies” and the 2009 self-titled set earlier than being dismissed from KILLSWITCH ENGAGE 12 years in the past and being changed by a returning Leach.
In 2012, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE bassist Mike D’Antonio instructed Boston Globe that the band’s break up with Jones was necessitated by the singer’s wrestle with private points, together with diabetes that had gone untreated for a number of years. “It turned very obvious we needed to transfer on with out him,” D’Antonio mentioned. “Howard did not stop.”
Picture credit score: Hristo Shindov
