Alive or Just Breathing

by Killswitch Engage

Alive or Just Breathing cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 21 May 2002
  • Label: Roadrunner
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 1:11:49
  • Community rating: 3.46/5 from 3 ratings

Artists on this release: Tom Gomes, Mike D'Antonio, Jesse David Leach, Becka Dutkiewicz, Joel Stroetzel, Philip Labonte

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Serving as the definitive blueprint for the New Wave of American Heavy Metal, the Massachusetts quintet perfected the balance of brutal hardcore breakdowns and soaring, clean choruses. The highly influential record marks vocalist Jesse Leach's final performance with the group before his sudden departure and eventual 2012 return.

Genres

Descriptors: melodic, conscious, ferocious, technical, emotive, punchy

Tracklist

  1. Numbered Days (3:35)
  2. Self Revolution (3:08)
  3. Fixation on the Darkness (3:37)
  4. My Last Serenade (4:13)
  5. Life to Lifeless (3:17)
  6. Just Barely Breathing (5:42)
  7. To the Sons of Man (1:58)
  8. Temple from the Within (4:04)
  9. The Element of One (4:08)
  10. Vide Infra (3:28)
  11. Without a Name (1:45)
  12. Rise Inside (5:56)
  13. In the Unblind (2:48)
  14. When the Balance Is Broken (4:35)
  15. Untitled and Unloved (3:20)
  16. Numbered Days - Demo (3:37)
  17. Transfiguration (a.k.a. Fixation on the Darkness) - Demo (3:38)
  18. Just Barely Breathing - Demo (5:13)
  19. Fixation on the Darkness (with Howard Jones) (3:38)

Credits

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