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The End of Heartache is the third studio album by the American metalcore band Killswitch Engage. It was released on May 11, 2004, through Roadrunner Records. It is the first album to feature lead vocalist Howard Jones and drummer Justin Foley. Three single were released for the album "The End of Heartache", "Rose of Sharyn" and "A Bid Farewell." The album was the band’s first to reach the Billboard 200, selling 38,000 copies in its first week of release peaking at number 21. A special edition of the album was released in 2005 that contained six additional tracks The album combines melodic elements with screamo, progressive metal, thrash metal and extreme metal to create "the perfect" melodic metalcore work, according to MetalSucks. Upon release It received positive reviews from critics, and helped boost the band’s mainstream appeal. The End of Heartache won album of the year at the 2004 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. The title track was also nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards. It has since been ranked among the best metalcore / metal albums by publications such as Loudwire and Metal Hammer. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
