Alive or Just Breathing

by Killswitch Engage

Alive or Just Breathing cover art

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

  • Melodic Metalcore

Tracklist

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