There can be few people more glad – relieved, even – to see the release of Atonement than Jesse Leach. Last year, Killswitch Engage’s frontman began to experience problems singing. Worse, at shows he was noticing blood in his spit, a potential sign of something genuinely wrong. Having been lucky enough to get a second chance at fronting the band, after already leaving once in 2002 due to struggling with depression, seeing the band explode, and rejoining a decade later, it looked very much like the dream could slip through his fingers again. But while a bout of throat surgery not only solved the physical problem, even improving his voice and enabling him to hit notes more comfortably than he had previously, elsewhere things were not so easily fixed. A divorce from his wife of 16 years chang...
