In an interview with Ore Bihovsky of TotalRock‘s “Louder” radio present, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz confirmed that he’s working with the band’s former singer Howard Jones on a collaborative new undertaking. “Yeah, me and Howard are doing a undertaking collectively,” he mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “He simply hit me up. He was, like, ‘Why do not you write some music for me?’ And I used to be, like, ‘Positive.’ So yeah, we’re engaged on a file proper now.”

As for when followers can count on to listen to the primary music from this new undertaking, Adam mentioned: “I’ve received a lot on my plate proper now. It is actually onerous to schedule something significantly, like ‘it is gonna come out at this level,’ ‘it is gonna come out at this level,’ however we’re simply nearly at a state of affairs the place we will possibly launch a single. However I believe your complete file’s gonna take a bit bit longer than anticipated. As a result of now I’ve to do double responsibility and file [the next] KILLSWITCH [album] on the similar time. So I will be doing that.”

Requested if there’s already a reputation for this new undertaking, Adam mentioned: “Not but. It is nonetheless very a lot within the works. We have got possibly 4 songs accomplished — completely accomplished. We’re making an attempt to do a whole file, although.”

This previous Friday (August 18),Jones took to his Instagram to write down that “13 demos” had been created for the as-yet-unnamed new group, which hopes to place the ending touches on the file “as quickly as doable.”

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 track “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 assumed the excessive ranges of tension 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 take care of that. I assumed 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 take care of it, so I’ve received my ardour again and it is nice.”

Requested what made him get again into music after leaving KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, Howard informed Heavy New York: “Truthfully, I believe it was as a result of I used to be simply type of bored with 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 type 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 shifting, I began doing issues. It was positively a battle, 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 the entire 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 11 years in the past and being changed by a returning Leach.

In 2012, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE bassist Mike D’Antonio informed Boston Globe that the band’s cut up with Jones was necessitated by the singer’s battle with private points, together with diabetes that had gone untreated for a number of years. “It grew to become very obvious we needed to transfer on with out him,” D’Antonio mentioned. “Howard did not give up.”