Killswitch Engage, etc. vocalist Jesse Leach weighs in with his thoughts on Atmosphere‘s latest release “Southsiders” in a new feature over at Thetalkhouse.com. The read also gives some insight into Leach‘s personal connection with the aforementioned outfit, including the revelation that he used to share a house with rapper Sage Francis.
An excerpt from the feature, which can be read at the above-mentioned link, reads as follows:
“Around 2002, I shared a house with five roommates, and among them was Sage Francis. (For those who don’t know, Sage is an amazing poet and MC from Rhode Island.) Now, mind you, I have loved hip-hop since I was a kid living in the ghettos of Philadelphia in the 1980s, but Sage was tuned into a whole other scene of underground hip-hop artists and poets, among them the Minnesota hip-hop duo Atmosphere. I was writing Alive or Just Breathing with Killswitch Engage (our second album, released in 2002), he was writing Personal Journals (his debut studio album, also released in 2002) and Sage and I would compare notes. Of course, we would also just talk about music and play each other new stuff.”
