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  Amazon.com: Alive Or Just Breathing: Music: Killswitch Engage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
"Alive or Just Breathing," Killswitch Engage's second album and their last with original singer Jesse Leech, was their first album to include melody of any kind.
Even though "Alive or Just Breathing" isn't quite as good as Killswitch Engage's third album, it isn't very far removed from that album, either, so I recommend this album to you if you started being a KsE fan when "The End of Heartache" was released.
On "Alive or Just Breathing," the band effortlessly combines the aggression and tightness of hardcore with the musicianship and melodic sensibility of classic metal pioneers like Iron Maiden.
www.amazon.com /Alive-Just-Breathing-Killswitch-Engage/dp/B000065894   (1411 words)

  
  Alive or Just Breathing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alive or Just Breathing was a music album released on May 21, 2002 by American metalcore band Killswitch Engage through Roadrunner Records.
Hence, the title: are you alive or are you just taking in the air?" [2]
Alive or Just Breathing was recorded over a period of 7 months.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alive_or_Just_Breathing   (619 words)

  
 Show & Tell - Killswitch Engage, "alive or just breathing" CD review
"Alive or Just Breathing," the band’s debut on RoadRunner Records, is a study in classic heavy metal riffage not-so-carefully laced with contemporary double-bass thrashcore.
For most, the vocals on Alive or Just Breathing will be the turning point on whether or not they'll like the album.
The majority of the vocals are of the low pitch growl origin, with a sporadic melody thrown in to sorta cleanse the palette before biting off your head again.
www.showandtellonline.com /_killswitch_engage/_cd_alive_just_breathing.html   (306 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Alive Or Just Breathing - Killswitch Engage at Epinions.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Other tracks such as the pseudo-title track, Just Barely Breathing, a (relatively) slower track, The Element of One, and the creative My Last Serenade are close seconds for the best track on the album.
Just listening to Leach scream on this track makes you drop your shoulders when he drops his tune and hold your head up when he raises it.
Just listening to this ending will have you bowing your head and screaming in silence to the words.
www.epinions.com /content_133119315588   (1086 words)

  
 // KILLSWITCH ENGAGE WEB: VERSION 3.0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
After the recording of "Alive Or Just Breathing?" they were joined by ex-Aftershock-drummer Tom Gomes, replacing Adam who plays guitar for Killswitch Engage now.
On "Alive Or Just Breathing?" Adam had to play double bass, drums, guitar, percussion, piano and he had to sing the background vocals.
No, while recording "Alive Or Just Breathing?", the song "Fixation On The Darkness" was called this way.
www.kse.host.sk /main.php?pageid=questions   (658 words)

  
 Shoutweb.com - Featured Artist - Biography
Alive Or Just Breathing, the Massachusetts-area band's Roadrunner debut is a white light, white-hot explosion of spirit and substance.
From the first note, Alive or Just Breathing is about impact.
Consider Alive or Just Breathing's final track, "Rise Inside" with it's cry of "The time has come to make a difference." Clearly, their revolution isn't exactly a passive one.
www.shoutweb.com /channels/bio.phtml?artist=killswitchengage   (784 words)

  
 DigitalMetal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
With Killswitch Engage's second full-length Alive or Just Breathing (their debut for Roadrunner Records), Killswitch Engage have not only entered the realms of greatness, but crafted a record of sheer guitar insanity and vocal treachery that totally leaves me baffled.
Alive or Just Breathing splices the most innovative elements of their previous incarnations while meshing quintessential melodic Swedish-death riffing with a vigorous intricacy that winds its way throughout each song.
Each moment of Alive or Just Breathing brings an evolved aura of insanity and beauty with a firey blend of highly melodic hardcore and uncompromisingly brutal metal that holds an insatiable hunger for precision and complexity.
www.digitalmetal.com /reviews.asp?cid=5492   (515 words)

  
 Killswitch Engage - 'Alive or Just Breathing' review @ into-obscurity.com[enter the underground]
For months, while the band worked at their new material for their major label debut, fans and critics alike speculated how the label change might affect the band's sound.
Well, finally the product, "Alive or Just Breathing", is available and it's safe to say that Roadrunner Records had no hand in bastardizing the band's sound, as they have been accosted for doing in the past with similar acts.
"Alive or Just Breathing" sees the band taking the style they created on their debut to new levels, while adding a Meshuggah-esque vibe to the whole product.
www.into-obscurity.com /reviews/reviews.asp?reviewID=545   (286 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Alive or Just Breathing: Books: Killswitch Engage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Well-established metal label Roadrunner might be best known in recent years for unleashing fiercely modern metal behemoths like Slipknot upon the modern rock consciousness, but Alive or Just Breathing, the second album from Killswitch Engage, finds the company reaffirming its vows to the spirit of extreme thrash that it was founded in.
In truth, Alive or Just Breathing is not a pure thrash metal statement--this Massachusetts five-piece have the modern rock nous to add hefty slabs of accessible stadium rock to their frantic assault.
like the song "just barely breathing", when he stops the shouting and the guitars and drums slow down, it just seems to...it just doesn't fit right for me. it was too sudden a stop and too abrupt.
www.amazon.ca /Alive-Just-Breathing-Killswitch-Engage/dp/B000065894   (1349 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Alive or Just Breathing: Music: Killswitch Engage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
It's only fitting that Killswitch Engage's "Alive Or Just Breathing" should be one of those influential re-released albums.
When Killswitch Engage's "Alive Or Just Breathing" was released, it was revolutionary, because the idea of fusing swedish metal riffs, breakdowns, and dynamic vocals had not been done by any other bands.
(Jesse is on vocals on the album Alive or Just Breathing, whereas Howard is the vocalist on The End of Heartache, watch their documentary you'll understand).
www.amazon.com /Alive-Just-Breathing-Killswitch-Engage/dp/B000BEZPJQ   (1313 words)

  
 Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Originally released in 2002 and having sold over 160,000 copies in the U.S., Roadrunner Records is reissuing Alive or Just Breathing.
Alive or Just Breathing was a great start for Killswitch Engage and helped open the doors to many opportunities.
Alive or Just Breathing will leave you asking that question to yourself after you become engulfed in the metal of Killswitch Engage.
www.thegreatnothing.com /rebirth/view.php?review_no=16   (329 words)

  
 Blistering.com :: Music :: Reviews :: Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing
Alive or Just Breathing has been hyped as a return to classic heaviness, as an almost death knell for this pseudo nu metal plaguing the streets.
Nonetheless the end result is a straightforward piece of work that’s both catchy and thumping, driven with enough passion and conviction to keep the energy riding high all the way through.
Alive or Just Breathing doesn’t break much new ground in any field or genre, but its accessible and widely appealing crossover style should be turning many heads towards Killswitch Engage.
www.blistering.com /reviews/album.php3?ID=3186   (443 words)

  
 Tower Records - Alive Or Just Breathing - Killswitch Engage
On 2002's ALIVE OR JUST BREATHING, Killswitch Engage's first album for the venerated Roadrunner label, the Massachusetts-based metal band offers up fierce tunes (with unexpectedly positive lyrics, though) in the speed/thrash vein.
But Killswitch Engage is no Fear Factory, and on its debut album Alive or Just Breathing, the band's ambition eclipses its enjoyability.
Alive or Just Breathing is a cd worth buying, with it's awesome vocals from Jesse Leach, and heavy bass, and great drums, and guitar also.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2675434   (423 words)

  
 Interview with Howard Jones of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
When "Alive or Just Breathing," the sophomore effort from Killswitch Engage, arrived in my "to-be-reviewed" package, I wasn't really looking forward to reviewing a Roadrunner Records release.
The last laugh was on me as "Alive Or Just Breathing" blew me away in more ways than one.
They just kept pushing and pushing even when no one else cared - it's easy to see how they busted their butts to make it happen.
www.roughedge.com /features/killswitchengage0902.htm   (1610 words)

  
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Able to unleash a throat incinerating scream just as easily as he can belt out an entrancing emotional croon, band frontman Jesse David Leach could probably be best summed up as the modern day Phil Anselmo, he is just that talented.
Such a gifted dynamic approach allows the band to develop a musical arsenal that is heavy on both the aggressive and melodic fronts, a quality that is sorely lacking in most of today's metal.
Flush with double kick beatdowns and biting snare hits, his drumming style is brutish and powerful yet utilizes enough variation to keep it from sounding repetitious.
www.theprp.com /reviews/killswitchengage.shtml   (581 words)

  
 Album Alive or Just Breathing by Killswitch Engage - AOL Music
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Everything about the album 'Alive or Just Breathing' by Killswitch Engage including album title, track listings, release dates, guest artists, record label info and user reviews on AOL Music.
music.aol.com /artist/killswitch-engage/436947/album/alive-or-just-breathing/588062   (191 words)

  
 Theme Park Experience: Alive or Just Breathing
Just listen to my new album with SEEMLESS " WHAT HAVE WE BECOME" out in store now...
I can understand the desire to not be asked the same questions about his former band over and over again.
More often than not, these questions are coming from people I've just met or haven't seen in a long time.
themeparkexperience.blogspot.com /2006/10/alive-or-just-breathing.html   (895 words)

  
 Alive Or Just Breathing by Killswitch Engage CD
I am just so amazed at how these guys can be so melodic yet so hardcore/metal at the same time.
I have to admit, I do miss Jesse Lynch as the vocalist for KSE because Howard Jones is just continuing what Jesse did for the band.
This album kicks ass, to claim different is just plain stupid.
cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/3522108/a/...+Or+Just+Breathing.htm   (508 words)

  
 DigitalMetal.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Boston metalcore outfit Killswitch Engage are nearly finished recording their Roadrunner/Island/Def Jam debut Alive Or Just Breathing with engineer Andy Sneap (Nevermore, Kreator) in Derby, England.
Alive Or Just Breathing was produced at Zing Studio in October with producer Adam D at the helm.
Look for Killswitch Engage's Alive Or Just Breathing out sometime this summer on Roadrunner Records.
www.digitalmetal.com /news.asp?cid=2629   (165 words)

  
 IGN Boards - Let me be just another user say this...
Topic: Let me be just another user say this...
You guys are making these games worse and worse by buying them, which will just tell THQ-Yukes that no matter how bad the game is, you guys will always buy them.
If people just stopped buying their bad games, then maybe that would be a wake-up call to THQ-Yukes, and that would maybe force them to actually make the game better then before.
boards.ign.com /wwe_smackdown/b6546/131271521/p1   (1053 words)

  
 Shoutweb.com - Featured Artist
Killswitch Engage are a return to the heavy days of Sepultura, Obituary, and Carnivore with a sound that's fresh yet as deadly as any the label has ever released.
Their debut, "Alive Or Just Breathing", combines elements of metal, hardcore, and death metal to breath life back into a scene dominated by nu-metal imitators.
On tour with Hypocrisy and Soilworks is where we found the band to talk about the record, their sound, Roadrunner Records, and living life to it's fullest.
www.shoutweb.com /channels/?artist=killswitchengage   (130 words)

  
 Tower Records - The End Of Heartache * - Killswitch Engage
Some say this album isn't as good as Alive or Just Breathing, others say it's better...I agree with both.
I think that some of the songs on Alive or Just Breathing are better, but then I think that some of the songs on The End of Heartache are better.
This cd is no where near as good as Alive Or Just Breathing.
www.towerrecords.com /product.aspx?pfid=2993231   (570 words)

  
 UnEarthed.Com : Reviews : Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing - CD Review
I've had this CD for a few weeks now and yes, this review should have been done a while ago, but I was just having too much of a good time listening to this CD.
The first thing I did when I got home was pop in the Killswitch Engage CD, "Alive or Just Breathing" into the CD player.
Killswitch Engage's "Alive or Just Breathing", in my opinion, is the best release this year.
www.unearthed.com /reviews/review_r_0167.shtml   (754 words)

  
 IGN Boards - I find it disrespectful how Liu Kang is playable in Deception and Armageddon; as a zombie...
I mean I know he's just a video game character, but in a way, I find it disrespectful.
I'm glad he's a zombie now, makes him more than just a cheap Bruce Lee rip-off that he was before.
No plot, he's just back and after the man who killed him.
boards.ign.com /mortal_kombat/b6027/131994732/p1/?29   (1685 words)

  
 I-Mockery.com | Music Reviews
The lyrics are very original, with the theme of the album being about humans not living, just breathing, as in track 6 "Just Barely Breathing" where Leach sings "are we alive, or just breathing?"
I thought this was a good album, even though i'm not really into the whole hardcore/thrash type new American stuff, though i did like the melodic At The Gates type stuff, as bare as it was.
The Christian aspect made me puke but I just paid no attention to the lyrics even though there was some good postive stuff on there against discrimination etc. But better than joey??
www.i-mockery.com /musicreviews/detailed.php?id=504   (435 words)

  
 Alive Or Just Breathing? on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
This are just two of many definitions you find to the word "feelings".
New collection based on daily emotions and sensations.
Hand-painted, pain by numbers, just join the dots
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 Alive Or Just Breathing CD (Killswitch Engage) - SHOP.COM
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 Killswitch Engage - Alive Or Just Breathing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
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