Killswitch Engage recently announced it was in the studio, though for apparently more than just a new album. According to bassist Mike D’Antonio Killswitch Engage is working on two wrestling theme songs, one of which is a cover song the band isn't super stoked on doing.
D’Antonio says the band has been assigned by WWE to do a song it really doesn't like to cover, though they've been working on it quite a bit and have made it pretty listenable. But what song?!
We’re not actually not even supposed to talk about it, but we have two wrestling theme songs in the works right now. One I believe is finished… The first one is done and then the second one we’re gonna start recording in like two weeks.
One’s for one company and then the other is for WWE. The WWE one was really complicated because it was another thing where they sent us a song and said, ‘You need to cover this as best as possible or as close as possible’ and it’s not a good song.
So we had a tough time with it and a lot of the dudes were like ‘I don’t wanna do this.’ And I get it. I understand. If it’s a really crappy song, if we gotta put our name on it, we don’t want our fans thinking we wrote something terrible. So we got this song to where we’re comfortable and we’re gonna start recording it soon.
It's worth noting WWE wrestler CM Punk used the band's "This Fire Burns" as his theme song in the past. When we interviewed Mike on our wrestling podcast, Squared Circle Pit, he noted that Killswitch Engage was asked to cover Living Colour's "Cult Of Personality" right after Punk won the WWE title and "left the company," but that didn't work out and WWE just licensed the original track.
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