MORE ABOUT BURN ETERNAL: Jones’ departure from Killswitch Engage in 2010 eventually kicked off a prolific journey of musical output from his bands Devil You Know, who won best new band at the 2012 Golden God Awards, Light The Torch, who put forth two critically acclaimed albums with 2018’s Revival and 2021’s You Will Be the Death of Me and SION with YouTube star Jared Dines. His revered vocals have made guest appearances on a wide array of music by Body Count, Crobot, and Dee Snider to name a few. Meanwhile, Dutkiewicz as remained a Killswitch stalwart for 25+ years as a founding member, producer, prolific writer and of course accomplished guitarist. He has lent his production chops to an impressive list of bands that includes Underoath, Parkway Drive, Shadows Fall, as well as to his own projects Times of Grace and Serpentine Dominion. Now, nearly 14 years later, the dynamic duo returned to the studio and emerged with BURN ETERNAL’s debut self-titled record. As all good things do, the project naturally blossomed amongst dinner with friends. While Killswitch was in the UK supporting Iron Maiden, Jones happened to be in the UK performing and so he and Dutkiewicz decided to sit down and break bread. As the night went on, and the familiar warmth of longtime friendship took hold, Howard asked Adam a simple question, ‘Hey, do you have any riffs for me to sing over?’ Without any promise of label backing, and fuelled by a genuine love of each other’s company, the duo embarked on a grand journey of co-writing and demoing, leading them to numerous recording studios and ultimately tracking what would eventually become BURN ETERNAL’s debut LP. Each time they came together the feeling was familiar yet exciting, Jones describing it as “a longstanding itch, you finally got to scratch,” and adding “it was a fun situation because there weren’t any expectations”. The lack of deadline was freeing, allowing them to explore how their creative dynamic has evolved after so much time apart. “Howard has changed a lot as a person since we last worked together,” starts Adam D, “while writing Burn Eternal he was just like an open book, like, let’s try all these different ideas, it was really refreshing.” | 
