Comatose

Performer: Skillet
Engineer: Davey Rieley; Jason "JVP" Van Poederooyen; Sean Geyer
Producer: Brian Howes; John L. Cooper; Brian Howes; John L. Cooper
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Skillet: John L. Cooper (vocals, piano, bass guitar); Korey Cooper (vocals, keyboards, programming); Ben Kasica (acoustic guitar, electric guitar); Lori Peters (drums). Personnel: Brian Howes (vocals, guitar); Paul Buckmaster (strings). Audio Mixers: Chris Lord-Alge; David Bottrill. Recording information: Chicago Recording Company, Chicago, IL. Photographer: Jeff Gros. On their seventh full-length album, this Wisconsin-based quartet continues to pursue their heavy, hooky vision of what Christian music can be. Explosive drumming, molasses-thick guitar, and bewitching prog-metal melodies create a highly charged emotional atmosphere from which their lyrical meditations take flight. Even with a lyric sheet, it's hard to distinguish this from good old-fashioned devil's music, as the band probes topics like alienation, longing, and addiction without providing any pat sermons or answers. This is mature and heady stuff for a musical genre that is still finding its identity in the secular world.

Frontman John Cooper is the chief songwriter for this Tennessee-based Christian quartet. Since their formation in 1996, Cooper has channeled his love for metal, operatic progressive rock, and power ballads into a sound that incorporates orchestral elements, dual-gendered vocals, soaring choruses, and crushing riffs to illustrate his introspective lyrics about life, love, loss, and faith. In 2004, Lava/Atlantic reissued their independent release COLLIDE, and it was an immediate success on the Christian hard-rock circuit. And by the time of their follow-up, COMATOSE, two years later, they were sharing stages with mainstream acts like Saliva and Shinedown, breaking through on both college and commercial radio.

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