EMPIRE SHALL STREAM

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009 at 12:00pm by Axl Rosenberg

Awaken

Awaken, the new album from Empire Shall Fall (featuring original Killswitch Engage vocalist Jesse Leach), is now streaming in its entirety over at Metal Injection. I’ve been putting off listening to this album for a long time, but now that I am listening as I type this, I can safely say it’s not what I expected – in other words, it’s not just Alive or Just Breathing, Part 2. So shame on me for initially ignoring these dudes.

Go give the album a listen, then come back here and let us know what you think. Awaken comes out November 17 via Angle Side Side Records.

-AR



28 COMMENTS on “EMPIRE SHALL STREAM”

  1. Slaughterhouse says:

    I dig it! I always thought that he had an amazing voice!

  2. SlickerDrip says:

    it’s not that I like the empire, I hate it. But there’s nothing I can do about it right now.

  3. Driven9 says:

    Great stuff. as always, i love jesse’s vocals – and great guitar tone too!

  4. thebenthic says:

    Shits weak.

  5. TJ says:

    Digging what I’ve heard of this so far.
    Will definitely be picking this one up.

  6. Matt says:

    Sorry for the spam but I just wanted to mention that Empire Shall Fall is holding a record release party this Friday (November 13th) at Dingbatz in Clifton, NJ. Some pretty awesome local metal bands will be playing as well. Show starts at 9 pm, $10 cover.

  7. Kyle Brahe says:

    Man its good to hear Jesse doing metal again instead of Seemless. I’m still pissed about him leaving Killswitch. Goddamn Alive or Just Breathing was amazing.

  8. Sammy says:

    Axl, you disappoint. “Let us know what you think”?? Where the hell is your extremely pointed opinion?

  9. Metalguy says:

    Sammy he’s probably getting paid to post this and doesn’t want to bad mouth their label.or he’s really lazy

    • stu1 says:

      The album is self released, essentially. He also trashes acts on labels that advertise on here, but good thinking otherwise.

  10. Alkahest says:

    Eh, nothing really outstanding to me. But then again I only listened to the opening title track

  11. PatrickSTL says:

    The opening track is awesome.
    The guitar tone is sick.
    I actually love new KSE better then old, but this is good.
    Hopefully the rest stands up to the first track.

    • Sammy says:

      Couldn’t agree more. But the second song kind of deflated my sails. (Did I just mix metaphors?). Anyway, I’ll go back and listen to tracks 3 and beyond later.

  12. PatrickSTL says:

    Edit: Don’t really care about this album. Meh.

  13. pokesmot says:

    stoked for this album

  14. cink says:

    Fucking awesome album. I love it. Definitely in my top 5 records of the year.

  15. Dr schwine-hoot says:

    Pre ordered this 2 weeks ago, and cant wait to get it in my hands. This Sh*t is awesome, Jesse is the man when it comes to metal vocals… Amazing album, one of my faves of the yr

  16. huh? says:

    it makes it so much sweeter to know that its all DIY,thank god you snapped out of it you glorious bastardo!!!

  17. trashcanhands says:

    i like it. and i finally now know what would happen if meshuggah and candlebox had a child.

  18. Chris Berseth says:

    Good stuff. Been waiting for this one for awhile now. I was going to order it online, but I don’t have a Paypal account.

  19. Nick says:

    Im going to see them tomorrow on my bday…Friday the 13th, going to buy the cd. Been a huge fan of Jesse Leach from the day alive or just breathing came out.

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