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Killswitch Engage
In the fall of 2006, Killswitch completed work on their latest album, "As Daylight Dies." In the October 2006 issue of Revolver, Adam Dutkiewicz announced that the album was called Petting Zoo. However, as it was Adam who announced the name, it was assumed by some to be a joke. At this time they also recorded a cover of Dio's Holy Diver for a Kerrang! compilation album entitled High Voltage.
The band played the Carling Weekend Reading and Leeds Festivals in August, having played Australian dates without Dutkiewicz, who was suffering from back problems and needed corrective surgery. Other U.S. festival appearances in that year included headlining the likes of Saints and sinners festival in Asbury Park.
On May 23, 2006, the track This Fire Burns was released on the WWE Wreckless Intent album. This was the first new studio song to be released since The End Of Heartache. The song was intended to be the new theme for RAW Superstar Randy Orton; however, it was scrapped and later became the theme for the WWE Judgment Day 2006 pay-per-view. This Fire Burns is now being used as the theme for ECW wrestler CM Punk. The band's vocalist Howard Jones is a well known fan of the WWE product.
The band's latest album, As Daylight Dies opened at #32 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart with sales of 60,000 copies, shifting 22,000 more units than their previous best sales week of 38,000 for The End of Heartache. The album received mostly positive critical reviews, with critics praising the vocal style of Howard Jones and the band's already notable powerful riffs and soft melodies. All Music Guide gave the album four and a half stars out of a possible five, calling it "a Top Five metal candidate for 2006 for sure." The album did, however, receive a few mixed reviews from Metal critics, who criticized the album for breaking away from the style the band established with Alive or Just Breathing in 2002, and their last album The End of Heartache in 2004, and apparently "toning down" their once heavier sound.
The album's first single, entitled "My Curse," is thus far Killswitch Engage's most popular single, topping the number 31 spot on the Mainstream Rock chart achieved by the band's breakthrough single of 2004, "The End of Heartache" as well as being featured on the cover of the January 2007 edition of Revolver Magazine Recently the band had to cancel three of their European tour dates due to back problems from Adam. It turned out he needed emergency back surgery and was replaced on the tour by ex-Soilwork guitarist Peter Wichers.
On June 13, it was announced that the band were going to film a music video for their cover of Dio's classic Holy Diver. It was shot in Calistoga, California during the weekend of June 16-17. The song/video is expected to be in the re-release version of As Daylight Dies which will see a release on August 28th.
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