Killswitch Engage Announce Spring 2025 Headline Tour
WITH A STOP IN PENTICTON ON MARCH 21, 2025
Kublai Khan TX, Fit For A King, & Frozen Soul to Support
FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 2025
SOUTH OKANAGAN EVENTS CENTRE | PENTICTON, BC
Doors:Â 5:30 PM | Show: 6:30 PM
TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2024 AT 10:00AM PT
ONLINE:Â www.ValleyFirstTix.com
IN PERSON: Valley First Box Office at the SOEC
(Monday to Friday, 10AM to 4PM PT)
Tickets: Starting at $54.50*
*Additional fees apply online.
Three-time Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling hard rock heavyweights Killswitch Engage — with Jesse Leach on vocals, Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel on guitars, Mike D’Antonio on bass, and Justin Foley on drums — are hitting the road this winter and spring, including a highly anticipated stop at the South Okanagan Events Centre (SOEC) in Penticton on March 21, 2025.
Fresh off a 25th anniversary performance headlining the vaunted New England Metal & Hardcore Fest last month, the band will embark on a headline run in March. It’s their first tour of North America since late 2022, as the band has been busy working on new material.
The tour features support from Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King and Frozen Soul, and kicks off on March 5 in Nashville and runs through April 12 in Portland, Maine. Tickets and VIP packages will be available here.
“Excited is an understatement for the way that I feel about this tour,” says Leach. “We will be playing a solid amount of new songs, as well as old. That alone makes me very stoked. On top of all that, the lineup we have chosen is a powerful and eclectic blend of hardcore and metal with Kublai Khan TX, Fit For a King, and Frozen Soul. It is going to make for a really great live experience for everybody who comes to check out this tour. I feel like the band is firing on all cylinders and the timing for this tour couldn’t be more perfect. This will be a tour to be remembered…mark my words.”
The band’s latest album Atonement is out now via Metal Blade Records.
Fans can secure tickets online at ValleyFirstTix.com or in person at the Valley First Box Office at the SOEC starting Friday, November 1st at 10:00 AM PT.
ABOUT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE:
Killswitch Engage first shook the structure of heavy music upon climbing out of snowy industrialized Western Massachusetts in 2000. A musical outlier, the band pioneered a union of thrashed-out European guitar pyrotechnics, East Coast hardcore spirit, on-stage hijinks, and enlightened lyricism that set the pace for what the turn-of-the-century deemed heavy. 2002’s Alive Or Just Breathing became avowed as a definitive album, being named among “The Top 100 Greatest Metal Albums of the Decade” by Decibel and celebrated by everyone from Metal Hammer to Revolver. Not only did they bust open the floodgates for dozens to follow, but they also garnered three GRAMMY® Award nominations in the category of “Best Metal Performance” in 2005, 2014, and 2019, respectively, a gold certification for The End of Heartache [2004], and a platinum certification for As Daylight Dies [2006]. The group landed three consecutive Top 10 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 with Killswitch Engage [2009], Disarm The Descent [2013], and their career high best bow at #6 with Incarnate [2016]. The latter two releases, along with 2019’s Atonement, would also both capture #1 on the Top Rock Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums charts. The band’s total streams are nearing 3 billion to date, while they’ve remained consummate road warriors who’ve sold out countless headline tours and have shared stages with everyone from Iron Maiden to Slipknot to Slayer to My Chemical Romance to Mastodon to Parkway Drive, which is a testament to their ability to cross genres and appeal to all fans of hard rock. KsE have remained a featured attraction at every major North American and European festival through the years. The band is celebrating an astonishing, 25-year career as one of the most vital and genre-defining bands of the ’00s and continues its incredible legacy.
