Skillet - Rise on CD

Description

Founded in the distant year 1996, the Christian rock band Skillet has undergone numerous line-up formations in the 17 years of its existence. Only one of them always stood like an immovable rock in the surf: band founder John Cooper, who was responsible for lead vocals and bass on all eight of the band's studio albums to date. Especially in their US homeland, the band from Memphis, Tennessee continuously expanded their audience and has doubled their album sales since their 2000 Invincible with each subsequent release. Preliminary highlight: Awake from 2009, which has not only reached platinum, but also hit #2 in the US billboard charts at its release. With their catchy, anthemic alternative rock, Skillet will score exactly the notch that successful colleagues such as 3 Doors Down, P.O.D., Nickelback or Linkin Park have beaten or still beat. Unwilling to stand still or rest on their laurels, the band — John Cooper, guitarist and keyboard player Korey Cooper (John's wife), drummer and duet partner Jen Ledger, and lead guitarist Seth Morrison, who makes his album debut for Skillet here — continues to explore new territory on RISE, designed by Howard Benson was produced expertly, who had previously been responsible for the mega success AWAKE. Eager to face new challenges, Cooper plunged into collaborative songwriting more than ever before: he co-wrote the uplifting theme song and the twisting first single, “Sick Of It”, together with Scott Stevens, founder and leader of the Los Exies. strongest song that Skillet ever recorded, teameth together with Nashville songsmiths Tom Douglas and Zac Maloy. In “American Noise” and the cheerful “Good To Be Alive”, the band explores new territory by integrating elements of heartland rock into their aggressive, theatrical approach. Skillet has expanded their musical range, adding natural acoustic instruments such as accordion, mandolin, dulcimer, harp, kettle timpani and bells to their trademark sound of slashing electric guitars, strings, stirred synths and beating drums. Not only are these songs themselves that make Rise so captivating, it's also the song sequence: the almost unbearable tension of “Sick Of It” is suddenly ecstatically resolved as a radical contrast in “Good To Be Alive”; the final song triple “My Religion,” “Hard To Find” and “What I Do” builds into an immersive song. musical, thematic and emotional crescendo. These songs and the album as a whole are clearly equipped with a passionate, all-encompassing message, a message that flows through the entire work of Skillet like a make of tides, but is artistically interwoven into an exciting coming-of-age narrative on Rise. This spurbing work is the band's first concept album — although it was not originally planned.

Tracks:

Rise 4.20
Sick of It 3.11
Good to Be Alive 4.59
Not Gonna Die 3.45
Circus for a Psycho 4.31
American Noise 4.09
Madness in Me 4.17
Salvation 3.45
Fire and Fury 3.56
My Religion 4.12
Hard to Find 3.48
What I Believe 3.19