Band: Killswitch Engage
Album: Alive or Just Breathing
Song: Life To Lifeless
Track #5
Transcribed by: jay-raff


My band is covering this song and I'm 100% sure this is how it goes. This song's
not that hard  to begin with anyway, but it's still a kick-ass Killswitch tune.

 ____________________________________
| Key:                               |
|                                    |
| pm*      = palm-mute               |
| ~        = let  ring               |
| ~~~      = vibrato                 |
| h        = hammer-on               |
| p        = pull-off                |
| b        = bend                    |
| *        = natural harmonic        |
| **       = artificial harmonic     |
| / or    = slide                   |
| // or \ = legato slide            |
| _        = cut off (staccato-like) |
|____________________________________|

Guitar I:   C-G-C-F-A-d (low to high), pan right
Guitar II:  C-G-C-F-A-d (low to high), pan left
Guitar III: C-G-C-F-A-d (low to high), pan center



Intro (Gtrs. I+II)  ~~5/4 timing~~
        play 4 times
||--------------------||
||*------------------*||
||--------------------||
||--------------------||
||*-00-00--00000000--*||
||--00-00--00000000---||
  pm** **  ********

Gtr. III:
             play 3 times
||----------------------||
||*--------------------*||
||----------------------|| *Gtrs. I+II continue
||--5---6---0-----------||  with the Intro riff
||*-5-~-6-~-0-~--~--~--*||  seven times
||--5---6---0-----------||

                then Gtrs. I+II:
|------------|   |-------------------|
|------------|   |-------------------|
|------------|   |-------------------|
|-5---6---0--|   |-------------------|
|-5-~-6-~-0--|   |-00-00--000000-6--|
|-5---6---0--|   |-00-00--000000-6--|
                 pm** **  ******

Refrain ("Humility cover me! ...")  ~~4/4 timing~~
 Gtr.I:       / Gtrs. I+II
|------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------|
|-------------------7----------------| *repeat Refrain three times
|-5--------6--0-0-0-7----------------|  more, sliding out in the 
|-5--0-0-0-6--0-0-0-5--0-0-0-000-0-0-|  middle of the last time
|-5--0-0-0-6--0-0-0----0-0-0-000-0-0-|
pm   * * *    * * *    * * * *** * *

Verse (Gtrs. I+II)   ~~5/4 timing~~
           play 3 times|
||--------------------||------------------|
||*------------------*||------------------|
||--------------------||------------------|
||--------------------||------------------|
||*-00-00--00000000--*||-00-00--000000-x-|
||--00-00--00000000---||-00-00--000000-x-|
  pm** **  ********      ** **  ******


Gtr.II: (Gtr.I plays regular rhythm) ("There is no darkness...")
              play 4 times
||-----------------------||
||*----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||-----------------------||
||*-000-000-0-000000000-*||
||--000-000-0-000000000--|| *(slide out on last time)
  pm*** *** * *********


~ Refrain (x4) (Gtrs. I+II)  ~~4/4 timing~~


Chorus ("Life to lifeless...") 

(Gtr. I)
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------*-*-*-*--|
|-/3--2------5---5-----5---5-5-/3--2------0---------5-5-5-5--|
|-/5--3--3-0-3-~-3-3-0-3-~-3-3-/5--3--3-0-0-~-0-0-0-5-5-5-5--|
|--------3-0-3---3-3-0-3---3-3--------3-0-0---0-0-0----------|
       pm* *       * *                * *     * * *

(Gtr. II)
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|------------------------------------------------------------|
|---------------------------------------------------*-*-*-*--|
|-/7--5------3---3-----3---3-3-/7--3------0---------5-5-5-5--|
|-/5--3--3-0-3-~-3-3-0-3-~-3-3-/5--3--3-0-0-~-0-0-0-5-5-5-5--|
|--------3-0-3---3-3-0-3---3-3--------3-0-0---0-0-0----------|
       pm* *       * *                * *     * * *

(Gtr. I)
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-/3--2------5---5-----5---5-5-/3--2------0---------0-------|
|-/5--3--3-0-3-~-3-3-0-3-~-3-3-/5--3--3-0-0-~-0-0-0-0--000--|
|--------3-0-3---3-3-0-3---3-3--------3-0-0---0-0-0-0--000--|
       pm* *       * *                * *     * * *    ***

(Gtr. II)
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------|
|-/7--5------3---3-----3---3-3-/7--5------0---------0-------|
|-/5--3--3-0-3-~-3-3-0-3-~-3-3-/5--3--3-0-0-~-0-0-0-0--000--|
|--------3-0-3---3-3-0-3---3-3--------3-0-0---0-0-0-0--000--|
       pm* *       * *                * *     * * *    ***


Bridge (Gtrs. I+II)  ("Death unfolds itself...")
                                    (Ending 1)  (Ending 2)
|--------------------------------------------| |-----------|
|--------------------------------------------| |-----------|
|--------------------------------------------| |-----------|
|--------------------------------------3--6--| |-----3-/8--|
|-5h8p5p0---------0---------5h8p5------3--6--| |-----3-/8--| *(play total of
|---------3h6p3p0-0-00000000-----8p6p0-3--6--| |-...-3-/8--|   four times)*
                  pm********

                                  (Ending 1)  (Ending 2)
|------------------------------------------| |-----------|
|------------------------------------------| |-----------|
|------------------------------------------| |-----------|
|------------------------------------3--6--| |-----3-/8--|
|-5h8p5p0---------0_------5h8p5------3--6--| |-----3-/8--| *(play total of
|---------3h6p3p0-0_-----------8p6p0-3--6--| |-...-3-/8--|   four times)*


Build-up (Gtrs. I+II)  ("Pain brings me down...")
                         play 3 times |  Gtr. III:
||-----------------------------------||  ||-------------------||
||*---------------------------------*||  ||*-----------------*||
||-----------------------------------||  ||-------------------||
||-----------------------------------||  ||--5---6---0--------||
||*-5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-0-0-0-0-000-0-0-*||  ||*-5-~-6-~-0-~--~--*||
||--5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-0-0-0-0-000-0-0--||  ||--5---6---0--------||
  pm* * * * * * * * * * * * *** * *

Gtrs. I+II: 
(slowly come off the palm-mute)  Gtr. III:
|-----------------|               |---------|
|-----------------|        	  |---------|
|-----------------|               |---------|
|-----------------|               |-5---6---|
|-5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-|		  |-5-~-6-~-|
|-5-5-5-5-6-6-6-6-| 		  |-5---6---|
pm* * * * * * * *

|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|-------------------------|
|--00---00----000000--x--|
|--00---00----000000--x--|
 (gtrI)(gtrII)(gtrI) (both)


~ Chorus (twice as long)

Ending (Gtrs. I+II: the Bridge riff 4 times)

Gtr.III:
|------------------------------|
|------------------------------|
|-7-------/10-------/14--------|
|-x-(x32)--x--(x32)--x---(x56)-|
|-5-------/8--------/12--------|
|------------------------------|

(Gtrs. I+II)
End on:
|--------|
|--------|
|--------|
|-3-/8--|
|-3-/8--|
|-3-/8--|