KILLSWITCH ENGAGE To Team Up With LAMB OF GOD For Co-Headlining U.S. Tour

August 10, 2007

Greg Maki of Live-Metal.net recently conducted an interview with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE bassist Mike D'Antonio. Excerpts follow.

Live-Metal.net: How big is it to have [guitarist] Adam [Dutkiewicz] back on stage with you? [NOTE: This interview was conducted before Dutkiewicz left the tour due to his back injury.]

Mike D'Antonio: It's awesome, but he's still not really taking care of himself the way he should. This is his first tour back since January, and he already started doing all the old stuff that he used to do. You just can't do that anymore. He's gotta calm himself down. So right now he's actually looking to get another MRI 'cause he's not sure if he can make it to the rest of the tour.

Live-Metal.net: How serious was his injury?

Mike D'Antonio: It was his second back surgery, and whenever there's a back surgery, there's chance of paralysis, there's a chance of being in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. So going through it twice, every time he's going to have some sort of surgery, his ratio's gonna go down, down, down, down till he is going to be in a wheelchair. So we don't want it to get as bad as it did in January at all. We will send him home right away. Right now, it's just kind of a nervous, like, I hope he's OK, I hope he's feeling right. We've done everything we possibly could. We don't let him carry anything besides his guitar. We gave him a back room in the bus where it just has this big bed so he can kinda stretch out 'cause he's a tall guy, he's like six-four or something. The rest is up to him.

Live-Metal.net: What's next after Warped Tour? Do you know yet?

Mike D'Antonio: After Warped Tour, we are going to do a Scandinavian tour. It's gonna be like three or four weeks. We're gonna do Russia for the first time. We're really excited. Moscow and St. Petersburg. After that, LAMB OF GOD tour in December, co-headlining. We're really excited.

Live-Metal.net: Is that back here?

Mike D'Antonio: Yeah, in the U.S. And it might be like a December, quit for Christmas, come back out and do a January run, as well, with those guys. There is a little talk about maybe SUICIDAL TENDENCIES being on that tour, possibly EVERY TIME I DIE being on that tour. So it could be a big one.

Read the entire interview at Live-Metal.net.

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