{"id":3386,"date":"2011-08-16T01:07:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T08:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2011-08-16T01:08:02","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T08:08:02","slug":"times-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/times-of-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"TIMES OF GRACE"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TIMES OF GRACE<\/h1>\n

A nearly broken man repairs himself with the help of an old friend<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Spending two weeks hospitalized and immobile in 2007 left Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz plenty of time to think. Rather than dwell on his current circumstances (surgery for a severe back injury he suffered while on tour in England), Dutkiewicz started composing what became The Hymn of a Broken Man<\/em>, the debut album by his side project with former Killswitch singer Jesse Leach. \u201cOut of necessity, to keep my sanity, I started drumming up musical ideas while I was lying in a hospital bed,\u201d Dutkiewicz says. That was nearly four years ago\u2014so what took so long? \u201cWe wanted to handle this with kid gloves because of how sensitive a situation it is,\u201d Dutkiewicz says. \u201cLike, \u2018Adam is putting a record out, why isn\u2019t it a Killswitch record? Is he leaving Killswitch? What about Killswitch?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The answer to all those questions was simple. \u201cI wrote most of these songs from a hospital bed, and the foundations of what the songs are lyrically stem from me and where I was at that point,\u201d Dutkiewicz explains. \u201cI\u2019ve never done an entire record of music like that before, and that\u2019s not how Killswitch writes their music. We\u00a0do it collectively. We all bring ideas to\u00a0the table. This just felt like something\u00a0different from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Leach left Killswitch Engage in 2002 after repeatedly straining his voice, he and Dutkiewicz remained friends. The two still worked well together, although it wasn\u2019t exactly like old times. \u201cThere was definitely some of that old chemistry, but at the same time, it was actually much easier now because of Jesse growing up and learning how to sing,\u201d Dutkiewicz says. \u201cBack when he was in Killswitch Engage he was still learning himself as a vocalist, which is one of the main reasons why he left: He couldn\u2019t handle the pressure of being on the road and taking care of his throat.\u201d The songs originated during a grim time in Dutkiewicz\u2019s life and evolved through a handful of personal crises he and Leach dealt with over the intervening three years. The resulting album is even darker than the pair expected\u2014but in a good way. \u201cIt is a cathartic thing, it makes us feel better by letting all the bad stuff out,\u201d Dutkiewicz says. \u201cAt the same time, it\u2019s mostly a positive spin on how you have to remain hopeful and turn things around when things get weird.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TIMES OF GRACE A nearly broken man repairs himself with the help of an old friend Spending two weeks hospitalized and immobile in 2007 left Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz plenty of time to think. Rather than dwell on his current circumstances (surgery for a severe back injury he suffered while on tour in England), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1059,10156,2392],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3389,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}