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  • Jesse's a better screamer, and Howard is a better singer. There. I think I summed up all the comments on this video. Anyway, great song!

  • @mikeymouse01 i dont know, howard has such an incredible presence on stage with his screams and growls

  • @mikeymouse01 ur nobody to fucking judge who is better -.- for fuck's sake learn to point out that this is just your opinion. fuck.

  • @MrLoljesus666 I wasn't judging who is better or worse, I was summarizing all the comments that said so on this video. Learn to read before you criticize someone, you fucking retard.

  • @mikeymouse01 if u were summarizing all the comments why did u miss mine fuckface? i think both you and howard can suck my balls daily. learn to get off ur mom u fucking retarded piece of shit.

  • @MrLoljesus666 Nothing you say is worth a damn and is meaningless, that's why I missed your comment you donkey raping shit eater. Go kick rocks.

  • @mikeymouse01 i love your mom :) i'm sorry. i'm just revolted that i alway have to hide this from you... but. i'm raping ur mama and yes, she is a donkey <3 xoxoxo imbecil

  • @LeRoseBassist13 dude honestly, who cares if hes screaming correctly or not? this guys a fucking beast! his energy and stage appearance through-out the song make up for the screaming. Jesse did a great job performing this song

  • Alright so called "Killswitch Fan's" let's get this straight. Jesse at this time DID NOT scream correctly. He admits it in Killswitch's documentary, his says "I was up there screaming my guts out and that's not the proper way to scream. There's a balance between passion and technique, I didn't have all the technique I needed." Jesse's screams are yet still brtual on AOJB and all that. So technically Howard is a better screamer bcuz he has had training. They are both very talented so stop arguing

  • A bunch of normal looking guys simply shredding and blasting, just like Lamb Of God and Flaw, as well as a handful of others.. Now that's what it should be.. Why paint your face white with black lines and black lipstick? Pretty stupid I think..

  • Where the he'll did Jesse go

  • Look at the f*cking passion in jesse. i Think most bands today lack that all important attribute.

  • I like Jesse better. Jus my opinion.

  • Jesse's song writing really had great meaning and inspiration.

  • just a pity his voice wasnt upto it

  • to nuttysolos:

    what the fuck? are you that ignorant.

    unbelieveable.

    Back in the Jesse Leach era killswitch actually stood for something, now they are simply a corporate brand creation, comparable to Brittney spears with distortion and double bass..

    Howard is a great vocals but his lyrics and message are terrible, no delivery, no passion, just a pop star

  • @colt20 i agree :( their new album is pure garbage.. i would be kse's biggest fan if they would do a album like alive or just breathing again

  • What Vide Infra means?

  • @m4ssee idk. but when u find out plz tell me.

  • @decay789

    Well I googled it and it said that Vide means "see" and Vide Infra means "see below".

  • @m4ssee

    See Below

    that my friends seems too much fucking deep to me

    this song makes my ears cum

  • @vicfits

    Actually..

    "The title is Latin for "look beneath."

    Thats what Wikipedia says.

  • jesse leach>howard jones

    disagree with me if you want, but it's the truth. howard caused the band to go mainstream. jesse puts a lot more emotion into his songs than howard does. most of howard's stuff is about relationships. leave that shit to bands like fall out boy.

    AoJB is hands down their best. it shits all over their other stuff.

  • this man speaks the absolute truth

  • Hey, to me you make a great point, but I have to disagree with some other stuff. True, Jesse launched KsE into the mainstream, but Howard took it and ran with it. Every album released with Howard in lead outsells the predecessor. So complain about Howards style however you want, but you can't argue wih it's continued success.

  • Well first I want to say when I say 'howard made the band go mainstream,' i meant with all of KsE's songs hitting the radio.

    but i agree 100% with everything you said. what you mentioned is completely accurate. that's a very well-thought out post.

    overall i still think jesse was the better singer. The End of Heartache wasn't too bad though. i loved the redone version of 'Irreversal.'

  • I think Howard Jones officially adopts the band more than Jessie not to bag on Jessie I think Howard does a better job on the vocally than Jessie and that's why their main stream yeah he might sing about relationships but he sounds good doing it.

  • thats so true

  • the fact that howard sent them to mainstream popularity proves that he's far better!

  • Why? Because mainstream is better? In MY opinion Jesse was the best. Much more feelig and better agression. BUT I Like Howard as well...

  • @nuttysolos how is that better?

  • @nuttysolos obvious troll

  • Killswitch has imporved greatly in my opinion

  • this is the killswitch i miss there new album kinda sucks

  • omg...where have you been???

  • He left in the middle of a tour in 2002 cuz he got married a couple of weeks before going on tour and he got depressed and one day left without saying anything to anybody and the very next day he sent them an e-mail explaining that he couldn't take it anymore.

  • he was the first KSE singer

  • jesse owns ALL!!!! ALIVE OR JUST BREATHING hasnt left my cd player in i dont know how long! its the best killswitch album ever, that and the end of heartache are the shit

  • Jesse's beliefs - telling the world that everyone is to be treated equally, and that everyone should have a chance at forgiveness. One of my favourite vocalists.

  • A lot of his lyrics came from his christian belief.

  • Yeah, and for that, I salute him. One of the most positive singers in metal.

  • Agree, most of the metal singers just promote negative messages and always with this "anti - christian" shit. It's retarted.

  • wait was KsE a christian group when he was still singer, or was it just him because i know its not like that now

  • Not, the band. It was only him that was christian.

  • seriously... jesse left how many years ago? move on with your lives

  • fuck that. the only reason Harold sounds more "controlled" is because he doesn't put nearly as much emotion into singing and I guarantee that most of you've seen of Harold is their DVD, which is an unfair example because not only is the audio quality a million times better but all of Harolds vocals are pitch corrected. THat's why it SEEMS like he has less trouble hitting notes perfectly. He doesn't and Jesse has a much more powerfull voice and it's better sounding IMO

  • HAROLD? HAROLD

    Fuck yourself. ITS HOWARD

  • dude i think you need to die cuz i've seen both howard, HOWARD NOT HAROLD DIPSHIT and jesse live in person and howard can control pitch on his own. both of them are amazing but they each have their own faults. howard is a better singer but jesse is a better song writer. cause howard writes about love and relationships while jesse writes about bringing peace to the world and stopping negativity everything you just said is wrong. you have no right to leave a comment like that.

  • agree with you on that

  • @KyuubiXX243H98 next time be sure to point out that it's YOUR opinion that howard is better singer....i think the opposite.

  • who the fuck is harold?

  • its howard not harold people on youtube are douches

  • watching this video you can see why jesse fucked up his voice, he has no control. If you compare this to howards performance where he can properly control his screams as well as having some of the best clean vocals in the business.

    In my opinion My last serenade is the best KsE song but End of a heartache is the best album.

    Jesse has a better scream, howard better clean. I think howard edges it overall though.

  • Perhaps Howard does have a bit better "control," but like you said I just like the sound of Jesse's scream lot more. It's more raw. Howard's sounds so digitalized and... lifeless, so to speak. And I hate their new album >_>

  • Their new album isn't even out yet.

  • Your comment doesn't even make sense. If I'm saying I don't like an album, it's obviously "out." My definition of new is the latest album, and so I am referring to As Daylight Dies. What else would I be talking about?

  • Hes thinking of thier new album "Killswitch engage" the 09 release... Daylight dies is my fav album idk why. But all of thier old stuff still owns everything else.

  • howards is more beastly and it has a voice behind it while jesse's is more for a hardcore band. its too bland and i honestly believe jesse's is the lifeless one. but regardless i love em both

  • the howard vs jesse thing is a constant fight, ive been seeing these comments for over a year, haha.

    its kinda like danzig vs graves.

    i think you fighters should all listen to "irreversal"

    and then you should like both singers.

    EQUALLY.

  • uhmm...wow...amazing song (Y)

  • u cant understand jesse at all

  • i can cuz i know the lyrics

  • everyone shut the hell up about Howard and Jesse. god damn it's so fukin' stupid. THere both good in diff. ways.

  • even tho howard is sick i like jesse better

  • my favorite part:

    No one is placed higher than another

    No matter race or creed or gender

    We must teach forgiveness and compassion for all life

  • They're both awesome!

  • gotta get this whole gig uploaded

  • look up the lyrics for this song it has so much meaning behind it :)

  • For me Jesse is the better singer for early Killswitch because he sings these (especially this one) song with so much more passion and involvment than Howard. I saw Howard sing this song live and it was nowhere near as involved. Hoever i think Howard is best for the latest albums.

    LOve this song and Jesse \m/.

  • bullshit bro it wasnt adam d, ive got the set this world ablaze documentary here at home, its mikey D that brought everywan together, get your facts straight you fuck up

  • to say the truth jesse is a great singer but so is howard.

    srsly.. ppl have different opinions.

    so please.....

  • i would have to say howard is way better....

  • yeah i dont think so....his songs blow...every song that he sings has to do with love or some variation of that....arms of sorrow, my curse....you get the point...jesse actually sang about his opinions on life like in this song....how we all need to get along

  • what your saying is that jesse is a better song writer..in wich case i agree,but what i said i meant i liked howards actual singing better...

  • Alright, so go listen to a bunch of political stuff, Jesse is in to that sort of stuff, Howard just probably knows a lot about love and that's what he writes about, I really think only dousches rate songs on what they are about. Oh my god Jesse's songs are about blah blah, who cares My Curse, The End of Heartache, amazing songs in my opinion, and if u weren't to busy touching urself at night you'd maybe learn to like love songs.

  • ok asshole...howards songs arent terrible its just he writes every fuckin song about love and its annoying...jesse puts more emotion into his music anyway so fuck you

  • correct Jesse does put emotion into his songs, I think Jesse is a way better emotional singer, but I think Howard has a better, more powerful voice, don't get me wrong I like Jesse alot I am trying to get Jesse's new band to play at my college and I'm friends with the bassist of The Empire Shall Fall. But even so, I think Howard is taking the band in a great direction, they are still Killswitch Engage, with our without Jesse.

  • i will admit howard is a better live singer...its just he doesnt appeal to me very much..its just my own opinion though...good luck gettin jesse to sing for you

  • kk thanx sorry about the whole "touch yourself" thing just missed the meeting that I was gonna demo The Empire Shall Fall at so I was in a bad mood.

  • I like howard cuz he's black

  • lmao nice

  • howards too mainstream man, Howard was great for blood has been shed, now its just a totally different band,i mean comon a cover of holy diver....gay

  • I know man. It seems like the best music is always the least popular. There's too many Howard fanboys that talk shit about Jesse :\

  • Dio > You

    You can say whatever you want, but I enjoy all of their music. You complain that they are mainstream now, but come on. A) Wouldn't that be the goal of starting a band and B) You helped them get there. Either enjoy the music or GTFO.

  • its a different band with Howard, and should not have the same name.....

  • Hell no, the singer doesn't make the band dude, they are still very much Killswitch Engage, besides Howard brought a lot more to the table in my opinion.

  • not really

    i would seriously make the argument that if anything, as long as adam d is in the band then it will forever remain KsE

    afterall it was adam that formed the band and gathered everyone together back in 99

  • dont talk smack on my curse that is amazing

  • to be honest, i was so happy when jesse left - howard is incredible.

  • even if howard is better live, jessi has so much more emotion in him imo. howard seems kind of uninteresting to me really, stereotypical underground hardcore band stuff.

  • lol .. i dont care if its jesse or howard ... but kse still rocks!!! vide infra is absolutely their great song ..

  • Howard is definitely better live

  • howard howard

  • killswitch was awesome with jesse

    vide infra is an amazing song

    but now with howard there's crap like my curse

  • My Curse beat's the shit out of anything Jesse wrote, don't get me wrong I love Jesse, but listen to the End of Heartache (album) it is their best one so far in my opinion, I don't know if they'll ever be able to top that, I look forward to the new album that is coming out this spring

  • Your opinion, but heartache is just about love and shit. Jesse wrote about peace, love, and equality. sort of like the fugazi of metal. but howard belongs in a hair metal group. My opinion though.

  • Have you heard songs like When Darkness Falls, or Take This Oath?

    They are more about unity and shit then love. Besides I don't worry all too much about the meaning so much as the musical aspect of the songs. Some people listen to music to get inspired or derive meaning, that's fine, but then it probably means you aren't listening to some stuff from a musical aspect. Dunno I don't wanna argue with you man it's cool. By the way, what the hell is hair metal? Lol Howard's bald!!!!

  • Hey also, I take it your a big Jesse Leach fan? Do you know when the Empire Shall Fall's cd is gonna come out?

  • there both kick ass as hell

  • Non è un fatto di chi è più bravo o meno, il fatto sta che hanno voci e modo di cantare differenti, di conseguenza con l'arrivo di Howard hanno anche dovuto un pochino di più adattare la musica per consentirgli di esprimersi al meglio. Da conto mio sono entrambi due ottimi cantanti e non faccio differenza, li adoro entrambi!

  • Jesse was a great singer, and too is Howard. The fact that Jesse screams more doesn´t make him worst

  • @fayufo plus, jesse wasn't even given the chance to sing more for kse since he left the band... it would be interesting to hear him sing something howard wrote

  • I wish the quality of this recording was just a little bit better, it's still a great performance, but it would be excellent with higher audio/video quality. But it is 02 where they weren't that known, so I guess it is expected.

  • i like killswitch better wit jesse then howard but i like howard though

  • This is actually at The Cactus Club in San Jose.. Not SF.. Awesome to see video with Jesse in KSE though.. Jesse is the man

  • fuck yer jesse. love the screamo. howard/jesse doesnt bother me, they both have amazing screams, and thats what im about. KSE is still fucking great.

  • =/ howard is a good vocalist

    but his lyrics are super corny.

  • pfff what the fuck , he screams , screams , screams Ok -_- and we can't heard Him ... How can you like that? ... This is just some noise .

    I prefer the black singer .

  • @kindery69 nicely said.

  • howard owns

  • Howard is way better then jesse no offense but i don't like jesse voice

  • howard fails trying to sing anything from alive or just breathing. i mean, he needs to stick to singing melodic and leave thrash to jesse :)

  • wtf r u talking about have you heard howards other band? his growls will rip jesse

    as blood has been shed sumthing like that

  • I miss Jessie on Killswitch engage he was the shit!

  • Damn Jessie Looks like he's ready for battle. Bloody awesome!

  • both talented mofo's, and killswitch is still a fucking sweet band

  • dude, unnessecary.

  • HOWARD= ALOT BETTER

  • Not really dude...

  • Around 2:37 dude Jessie sings his heart out, that's what a real singer is.

  • class A shit

  • fucking sicc!! too bad mr. T is the new singer. the first 2 albums are the best for sure! i also like end of heartache. because Jesse wrote most of it!

  • Don't take this the wrong way dude but, Jesse didn't write any of The End Of Heartache, he left way before that, he didn't even finish touring Alive Or Just Breathing.

  • False, Jesse contributed to The End of Heartache, go listen to Take This Oath and you'll hear Jesse singing the choruses.

  • That was just like guest vocals to show everyone that there was no bad blood between them, and singing in one song is hardly writing most of it. BTW i'm not trying to start anything dude.

  • Neither am I. Just saying that he did contribute to the vocals and some of the tracks were being recorded before he left the band.

  • thelostboysmicheal.

    he also sung with phil labonte and howard jones on the remake of "irreversal" aswell.

    he also did a one-off gig with howard aswell. correct me if i am wrong.

    and austinmyslinsky. jesse didnt write most of it. i would say he written about 2/5 on his own and he written some with howard and howard wwritten the rest. so in total jesse wrote about 1/4 of it. so howard wrote the most.

  • i wonder where kse wouldve been if jesse hadnt have left..hmm we'll never know

  • This sounds like ROse of Sharyn.

  • Jesse Leech has the absolute worst screaming voice. First of all you can't understand a thing he says and secondly it sounds as though it causes him great pain to scream (this is actually a fact, he left the band because he wrecked his throat on tour and wanted to spend more time with his family)... on top of that the firt two KsE albums were not very good because of his horrible vocals. I simply don't understand how anyone could like Leech's vocals at all.

  • yes Howard is better technically, but imo he sounds almost too perfect for this music. Alot of people like Jesse's style because he is just giving it all he has got. Just screaming his lungs out. Atleast that is what i think is awesome about him. Also he is alot better then Howard when it comes to writing lyrics. Well thats my opinion anyways

  • cuz when he sings its almost god-like

  • I'm not too picky about the vocals, Jesse was awesome, Howard is awesome too, and while Jesse's sound fit KsE perfectly, Howard knows what he's doing. The only thing I have to say is the 1st two albums were awesome because they still had some aftershock/overcast value to them, then Howard came in the picture and don't get me wrong I love their new stuff, but its just not mosh material like Jesse's stuff. Don't worry I'm a loyal Killswitch fan.

  • COmpletely disagree. The first two albums are more enjoyable then the two they made with howard. THese recordings are poor quality. KSE werent even an established band with a label then. Jesse's voice is more suited for KSE in my opinion, much more fluid then howard's. Howard tends to be a rough with some of his screams which takes away from the guitar work.

  • No, I think howard is better.

  • Howard is so much better! you can actually understand him when he screams.

  • and im sure you think new KSE is metal too huh?

    Read the fucking lyrics and stop being lazy shit.

  • He was have verry good voice!!!

  • I dunno. Jesse's lyrics were much more meaningful and had a reason behind them.

    Howard on the other hand just kind of writes whatever comes to mind.

    both good vocalists though

  • lol howard just writes about his ex g/f, i mean pretty good songs, but ya jesse was the man for kse

  • howard jones muh fucka

  • fuckin' love this song

    i dont have a favourite KSE vocalist, but theyre both fucking quality, the ending of this song is my ringtone xD

  • jesse is so good you can't even lower him down to the level where you could compare him to howard - totally different, worlds apart but prelude is definitely the funniest killswitch song ever written!

  • I really miss Jesse... so sad I didn't get to see the Roadrunner United show where he and Howard sang together one "My Last Serenade"

  • Did anyone get any footage of that? I've never heard them singing together save for in Take This Oath.

    By the way, Blood & Flames by Roadrunner Unite rocks, you heard that?

  • HOWARD RULEz!

  • why know is the black dude?

  • Wow, one of the best vocalists of our time.

    Amazing

  • AWSOOOOOME!!!

  • alive is my fav album by far, even lyrically, not sooo much melody in every chorus starting 30 secs into each song... howard definatly made up for his absence and does the job, but this was the least popular, but in my opinion greatest state of killswitch... still love killswitch to death

  • Don't forget that their equipment was complete shit at the time of this recording (and that the recording is much cheaper than the DVDs that Howard sings on). Howard Jones is a skilled singer, but his lyrics are a fucking joke compared to Jesse's.

  • no? howard are ten times better -.-' at least...

  • hell yeah you are right!!!!

  • sometimes jesse's lyrics on alive or just breathing give me that Tool vibe, kinda sounds like Maynard at times...

    killswitch is amazing

  • why is jesse not the singer anymore

  • he had severe depression issues and i think he damaged his vocal chords badly. anyways, it really doesn't matter who the singer is. Howard kicks just as much ass, and killswitch will always kick ass, so who cares?

  • screaming - yeah jesse is better

    as for singing, howard completely out does him

    theyre both great vocalists either way ;/

  • i wonder what killswitch's new music wouldve sounded like if jesse was still there

  • this band is nothing without howard/adam.

  • adam is there you fuck face. Jesse is way better

  • i didn't say he wasn't there. howard can actually sing, in addition to scream

  • From what I've heard Jesse fucked up his voice from giving it to much when he screamed, which was one of the things that made his vocals so fucking great, anyone that calls Jesse a "pussy bitch" should go & rot in a corner.

  • fucking hell, this is awsome

    i loved jesse, but howard is just as good man

  • jesses a bitch

  • yeah is that so.

    keep talking and maybe, just maybe, you will say something intelligent someday.

  • FIRST LYRICS ON THE NEW CD "THIS PLACE IS EVIL".... haw retarted i refuse to ever listen to that emo trash ever again. Howard was only good on The end of heartache. Jesse turns anything he touches to gold. Talk trash and get owned by kirby <('.'<)!!!!