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Jesse Leach pranks Killswitch Engage fans with brand new reggae song

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“HOLY HELL new Killswitch, holy shit! Listen” says the singer. Except he's lying

 

Oh, Jesse Leach, you’re such a kidder. With the world eagerly awaiting the brand new Killswitch Engage album, the singer decided to ‘leak’ a brand new song on Instagram.

“Exclusive Killswitch Engage leak!” trumpeted our guy. “I repeat HOLY HELL new Killswitch, holy shit! Listen”

Except that’s not quite true. Instead, it featured a short snippet of a jokey reggae song featuring Jesse singing the praises of the blessed herb. “Smoke the weed,” he drawls over a tune that would have Bob Marley spinning in his grave, before  helpfully adding: “Don’t smoke the seed.” (It turns out “You're gon’ kill your brain”, apparently.)

Exclusive Killswitch Engage leak! I repeat HOLY HELL new Killswitch, holy shit! Listen . . . . . . . . SIKE suckas, you gone hafta wait.... 🤣 however that is me singing and Adam D did in fact produce that particular piece of music funny enough. No ....none of it is serious calm down I’m not doing reggae...yet 🤣 . ✌🏼 AND Remember (legally appropriate people to say this too) “smoke the weed don’t smoke the seed, cuz if you smoke the seed you’re gon kill your brain... yeah! . This PSA was brought to you in part by the corporation for anticorporate broadcasting and by the partners and associates of “we don’t give a shit what you think Inc.” #HashtagJokes and we love you 🤘🏼🤘🏼 🏴 JeSsE LeAcH 🏴

A photo posted by @jesse_d_leach on Jan 6, 2019 at 8:24pm PST

 

“SIKE suckas, you gone hafta wait…” says metalcore’s answer to Haile Selassie. “None of it is serious calm down I’m not doing reggae…yet.”

Thank Jah for that…

Dave Everley
Dave Everley

Dave Everley has been writing about and occasionally humming along to music since the early 90s. During that time, he has been Deputy Editor on Kerrang! and Classic Rock, Associate Editor on Q magazine and staff writer/tea boy on Raw, not necessarily in that order. He has written for Metal Hammer, Louder, Prog, the Observer, Select, Mojo, the Evening Standard and the totally legendary Ultrakill. He is still waiting for Billy Gibbons to send him a bottle of hot sauce he was promised several years ago.