KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Shares Music Video For 'Collusion' Single From 'This Consequence' Album

Summary

• Killswitch Engage drops new music video for “Collusion”—a song about power, propaganda, and manipulation—with a hacker disrupting a fake news broadcast while the band tears it up in the background.
• This Consequence, the band’s ninth album, is darker, angrier, and more aggressive—Jesse Leach calls it a wake-up call to the world’s corruption, division, and existential chaos.
• North American tour incoming—starting March 5 in Nashville, featuring Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King, and Frozen Soul—prepare for mosh pit survival mode.

Killswitch Engage is back with This Consequence, their ninth studio album, and they’ve just unleashed a music video for the track “Collusion”—which, spoiler alert, is NOT about happy things. The band—Jesse Leach (vocals), Adam Dutkiewicz (guitar), Joel Stroetzel (guitar), Mike D’Antonio (bass), and Justin Foley (drums)—dropped this one on February 21 via Metal Blade, because apparently, February needed some extra existential dread.

Now the video? Pure dystopian chaos—imagine a hacker dude (hoodie, dark room, probably hasn’t touched grass in years) breaking into a news broadcast, replacing state-sanctioned brain mush with…a Killswitch Engage performance. Very Fight Club meets some guy who read one book on propaganda and won’t stop talking about it. It’s fine. Everything’s fine.

“Collusion”—Or, How to Make Everyone Paranoid About The Government

Jesse Leach, resident rage poet, explains:

“‘Collusion’ is about the struggle between people in power and the common people. It speaks about the propaganda and divisiveness used to keep us in control. It’s about the ruthlessness of the ruling class who use wealth to raise, manipulate, and destroy empires at their will.”

Translation: The world is on fire, rich people are playing 4D chess, and we are—at best—pawns who occasionally get to play Wordle before the next corporate overlord screws us. Wake up. Or don’t. Your call.

Leach also threw in this little nugget of wisdom:

“I wish for people to use discernment and intellect to read between the lines. My hope is to instill a desire for analyzation and critical thinking amidst the current rigged and corrupt forms of governments the world over.”

Critical thinking? In THIS economy? Good luck.

This Consequence—AKA “Oops, The World is Worse Than We Thought”

Killswitch Engage is known for injecting a little hope into their brand of metalcore, but This Consequence? Not so much. Leach describes the album as “dark,” “angry,” and “aggressive”—you know, the perfect soundtrack for questioning your life choices at 2 AM.

Speaking to United Rock Nations, Leach got real about how hard it was to make this album without sounding like a guy shouting into the void:

“I think for me wanting to be, and I use this word loosely, relevant, but relevant to me and my band members. I wanted what I had to say to excite them, but I also needed it to be genuine. I needed it to be something that when I looked at those lyrics, I thought, ‘Yes. That’s exactly what I wanna say.’”

And apparently, the band initially rejected some of his lyrics because they weren’t hard enough—imagine being Jesse Leach and getting hit with a “meh, try harder” from your own band. He continued:

“Having that sort of rejection from them initially was very hard. It sort of felt like I was becoming insecure. I was wondering if I had it in me. But that turned into a determination to rediscover myself as a writer, to go deeper, to tap into things that I never tapped in before, and to sort of look outside of myself.”

So he took inspiration from media manipulation, real-world horror stories, and toxic relationships, and suddenly, boom—This Consequence was born. It’s about all of us—which is a nice way of saying “hey, we’re all in this collapsing clown car together, buddy.”

Jesse Leach vs. Organized Religion (Round ???)

Killswitch Engage fans already know Leach doesn’t shy away from big existential questions, but he doubled down when discussing “Forever Aligned”, the first single from the album.

“I was raised by a minister, I was raised in a Christian home, so even though I don’t subscribe to organized religion anymore, I like using biblical words here and there to sort of tie in the themes. I’m very much a believer in God, if you will, in general. I know people roll their eyes when other people say that, but my journey has been such where I’ve just seen much deeper things that I don’t think can be defined by a particular human organized religion.”

So, TL;DR? Love exists, God exists, but organized religion? Meh. Insert dramatic em dash—interpret that however you want.

Screaming, Fry Vocals, and Keeping Your Throat From Exploding

Let’s talk vocals, because Leach’s journey from surgical recovery to sounding like an ancient wrathful deity was not easy.

“Especially after my vocal surgery in 2018, I relearned how to speak differently—I speak differently than I did. I’m more measured; I make sure my voice is placed in the right place. And through that, it went into my vocals, my singing, especially. I was really focusing on my singing first and foremost to stay in key and not go flat or sharp.”

Translation: Imagine trying to unlearn how to scream without permanently destroying your vocal cords while still keeping the raw, violent energy that makes metalcore… metalcore.

“For the lower, mid stuff and for the death metal growls, that’s all old school… It’s the old-school way, the way we all started doing it in the late ’80s and early ’90s.”

Leach, fully committed to NOT sounding like an AI-generated screambot, blended old techniques with new-school vocal fry—because, fun fact, screaming incorrectly is a great way to sound like an angry raccoon and permanently wreck your throat.

Tour Incoming—Prepare Thy Ears

Killswitch Engage is hitting the road in March 2025 for their first North American tour since 2022. The lineup? Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King, and Frozen Soul—a STACKED roster of bands that will leave you sweating, exhausted, and questioning every life choice that led to getting elbowed in the face in the pit.

It all kicks off on March 5 in Nashville and wraps up April 12 in Portland, Maine—so, y’know, prepare your body for mosh-related whiplash.

The World’s a Mess, So Let’s Scream About It

This Consequence isn’t just another Killswitch Engage album—it’s a manifesto of righteous fury, a soundtrack for an era of unfiltered rage, political paranoia, and the desperate search for meaning. So, if you’re feeling a little existential, a little angry, and maybe just a bit too awake at 3 AM thinking about societal collapse—this one’s for you.

Oh and don’t forget to stream “Collusion”—because nothing says “wake up, sheeple” like watching a hacker take down a fake news network while Killswitch Engage rips through your soul.

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