Killswitch Engage Set Portland Ablaze with a Blistering Sunday Night Set
PORTLAND, MAINE — April 13, 2025 — If your face wasn’t melted off by the end of Sunday night, were you even at the Killswitch Engage show?
The Cross Insurance Arena transformed into a molten pit of metalcore madness as Killswitch Engage closed out their spring tour with the kind of fire most bands only dream of igniting. This wasn’t just a concert. It was a full-blown reckoning — guitars screamed, voices soared, and the crowd left everything they had on that floor.
Opening Carnage: Setting the Stage to Burn
Frozen Soul got things rolling with a wall of icy death metal that hit harder than a Maine nor’easter. Their set was lean, mean, and unforgiving — the perfect gut punch to prep the pit.
Then Fit For A King took over and dialed the energy into full sprint mode, hammering the stage with breakdowns that could snap necks and lyrics that had fans yelling along with every ounce of breath.
Kublai Khan TX Straight chaos. No gimmicks, no fluff, just unrelenting hardcore that cracked the concrete beneath the arena. Moshers didn’t even wait — they threw down early and often.
Killswitch: Legends in the Flesh
But it was when the lights cut out and the first chords of “My Curse” ripped through the air that the place truly detonated. Killswitch Engage stormed the stage with the fury of a band that’s got nothing to prove — but still proves it anyway, every damn night.
Jesse Leach was a man possessed. His screams were raw enough to peel paint off the rafters, and when he hit those melodic highs, the entire arena sang like a choir of the broken. Guitarist Adam D, an absolute menace, ripping through riffs and tossing high kicks like it was 2005 all over again.
They hit the crowd with everything: “The End of Heartache,” “In Due Time,” “This Fire,” “Unleashed” — a masterclass in melodic metalcore with zero filler. The sound was massive. The pit? Total bedlam. And if you didn’t lose your voice screaming “BID FAREWELL!” during that encore, don’t worry — you were drowned out by 5,000 others who did.
Final Thoughts: Pure Catharsis
By the time the final notes rang out, and sweaty fans spilled into the Portland streets under a cold April sky, one thing was clear — Killswitch Engage doesn’t just perform. They purge. They cleanse. They lift you up, tear you down, and leave you wanting more.
Sunday night was metal at its finest. A triumphant, sweat-soaked, emotionally charged exorcism of everything that makes this music matter.
Killswitch Engage came to Maine, and they left no survivors.