Archive for April, 2013

Apr 2
Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Gratitude

Posted by Jesse Leach on April 2, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

An amazing album was finally released today — an album some of us have waited ten years for. Killswitch Engage have released Disarm The Descent, their first album with original frontman Jesse Leach since Alive or Just Breathing. The album’s an instant classic, and Leach, on this all-important day, is feeling grateful. It’s 4:30 in Read More

Feb 1
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Communication Breakdown

Posted by Jesse Leach on February 1, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

The modern world has become a hub of communication. Everywhere I go I see people zoned out and staring at their smart phones, checking emails on the go, updating their “social media” page or Blog, communicating through text and email etc., etc. It is everywhere we go, it encompasses the vast majority of how a Read More

Jan 10
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: “For Your Consideration”

Posted by Jesse Leach on January 10, 2013 in Exclusive, Featured, Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

It has been a long time since I have had the energy and desire to write a column. After three solid tours and writing the record of my career back with Killswitch Engage, I have been all consumed (not that that is a bad thing at all). A lot has happened since June and in Read More

Jun 28
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Positive Mental Attitude

Posted by Jesse Leach on June 28, 2012 in Exclusive, Featured, Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Jesse Leach, and with good reason. Since his last column, Jesse’s reunited with Killswitch Engage, with whom he’s been writing and touring with. It’s good to have Jesse back, as you will see in his latest contribution to Gun Shy Assassin We live in a vast and Read More

Sep 1
Check Your Head with Jesse Leach

Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Perspective, In The Eyes Of The Beholder

Posted by Jesse Leach on September 1, 2011 in Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

Jesse Leach of Times of Grace and The Empire Shall Fall, and the voice behind Killswitch Engage’s landmark release Alive or Just Breathing is back from a summer of touring with his latest installment of “Check Your Head.” I must say, it really is good to have his prose back on the site. Click this Read More

May 24
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Changin’ Times

Posted by Jesse Leach on May 24, 2011 in Featured, Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

Ever wake up in the middle of the night wondering how you were going to pay your bills, make ends meet or pay your rent or mortgage? Ever wake up and wonder how you got where you are in life? How about waking up and thinking you would be taken up to heaven, then realizing Read More

Apr 4
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: These Are The Signs Of The Times  

Posted by Jesse Leach on April 4, 2011 in Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

Jesse Leach is back and we couldn’t be happier. We love Jesse’s column and have missed it quite a bit. We know you have too. But Jesse was on tour and he’s been working on new music…I’m not sure how he found the time to write for us, but he did and we thank him Read More

Jan 20
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Roots Rhode Island Roots

Posted by Jesse Leach on January 20, 2011 in Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

Jesse Leach is back, people. This time, he reflects on what has been a very busy week — after all, the debut album from his band Times of Grace hit stores on Tuesday. Get it. But first, read on. The past week has been unreal for me. The release of the most important record of Read More

Jan 3
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Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: “One Of The Wonders Of The World”

Posted by Jesse Leach on January 3, 2011 in Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

Jesse Leach of Times of Grace and The Empire Shall Fall is back with his first column of 2011, and wouldn’t you know it — Jesse likes Porcupine Tree! I think they’re one of the best bands to emerge in the last 20 years. I truly do. But enough about me: Heeere’s Jesse! I spent Read More

Dec 23
Check Your Head With Jesse Leach

Jesse Leach’s Check Your Head: Start Today

Posted by Jesse Leach on December 23, 2010 in Jesse Leach's Check Your Head

This week, Times of Grace frontman Jesse Leach is back again with an inspiring message just before Christmas, for people who feel stuck in their lives. Don’t forget to check out Jesse and Times of Grace on tour next year. I was going to write a column about it being that “time of the year Read More