Awake is the seventh studio album by American Christian rock band Skillet. It is the follow-up to their Grammy-nominated album Comatose. The album was released on August 25, 2009, by Lava Records, Ardent Records and Atlantic Records and debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.[3] The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on July 27, 2010, and has since gone double platinum, selling over 2,000,000 copies to date.[4] It was nominated for Top Christian Album at the Billboard Music Awards 2011 and won.[5] This is the last album to feature guitarist Ben Kasica and the first studio release to feature drummer Jen Ledger. The singles "Awake and Alive", "Hero", and "Monster" are certified 2x Platinum, 3x Platinum, and 5x Platinum, respectively.
Skillet began recording for the album around October 2008.[6] The band recorded at Bay7 Studios in Los Angeles, California, with Howard Benson as the band's producer.[7] The album contains 12 songs.[8] Lead singer John Cooper wrote more than 40 songs in preparation.[9] He said that there was much pressure while recording the album: "Every time you do a record, there's pressure because you want to outdo the last record. This time it was intensified because the last project was so successful."[10]
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According to band members, the album is similar to their 2006 release Comatose, featuring strings and guitars with a harder rock sound than their previous album.[11] John Cooper said that it "sounds like Skillet with some new things people may not expect." On Skillet's website, they describe their musical style as "Classic rock riffs, swirling drums, monstrous hooks, and undeniably catchy choruses... hints of old school progressive rock mixed in with modern alternative flourishes... touches of classical influence as swelling strings intersect with sonic adrenaline rushes."[9][12]
Awake was released on August 25, 2009, through Lava/INO Records,[17] and debuted at No. 2 on the national U.S. Billboard 200 chart, making it the band's most successful entry on the chart.[3] It also placed on other Billboard magazine charts as No. 1 on Top Alternative Albums, No. 2 on Top Rock Albums, and No. 1 on the Top Christian Albums listing.[3] The album sold 68,000 copies in its first week, Skillet's best-selling and highest charting opening week to date.[18]
In 2009, Awake tied Underoath's Define the Great Line, and Casting Crowns's The Altar and the Door for the highest charting Christian rock album on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. 2.[19]
The album received mixed reviews from critics. Kevin Chamberlin of Jesus Freak Hideout gave the album 3 out of 5 stars, saying that the album "doesn't live up to Comatose and due to its extreme proximity style-wise, it is lackluster at best and on the verge of uninteresting." He also stated that the heavy amount of ballads on the album were unacceptable, saying that a few songs "wear immaturity like a fedora." He concluded his review by saying that the album "feels like the sophomore slump that Skillet never had to suffer through and a watered down version of Comatose."[27] Despite this, Awake has since gone double platinum in the United States, selling over 2,000,000 copies to date and outperforming Comatose.[4]
In 2006, Skillet released their immensely popular and successful album Comatose. Along with the perfection of their live shows and the addition of a new drummer, Skillet's popularity grew more and more. With a new fan base and a new energy, their latest endeavor, Awake, attempts to build on that success. Having been known for not duplicating their sound with their previous records but still maintaining a basic foundation, Awake follows too in-step with Comatose.Comatose was such a transformation from the much harder Collide. Even the album titles Awake and Comatose suggest the albums are meant to be a tandem. That being said, Skillet has never truly duplicated themselves before. Hey You I Love Your Soul, Invincible and Alien Youth had similar elements but never were carbon copies of each other, but more of a progression and maturity.
"Hero" opens up Awake with a solid intro but immediately after hearing the vocals and the lyrics it's evident that the aim for this album is a much younger audience than the one that grew up listening to them. The most obvious change is the addition of Jen's vocals, which add a certain layer to the song, but also take away from the serious tone that Korey Cooper offered in the past. "Monster," a song about struggling with sin, follows with a heavier guitar, but the polished effects make it hard to fully embrace. The lyrics also make the topic difficult to take seriously especially with an extremely odd distorted "monstrous" vocaleffect singing "...I feel like a monster..." near the end of the song.
"Forgiven" is a highlight, but is still something that we've heard before. This song about redemption is the closest Skillet gets to a spiritually heavy song, with subtle strings throughout but heavier in the appropriate places. The song is directed towards the listener when Cooper sings "You have forgiven" about God's mercy. "Sometimes" is another highlight, which opens heavier and stays heavier throughout. Ben's guitar solo also has a crisp feel. "Never Surrender" opens like an epic sound, but still feels familiar. It follows up the theme on "Sometimes" and "Forgiven" with the three tracks working really well together."Lucy" closes out the album in a slow fashion, but on a downer about a girl named Lucy who has passed away. It's a sweet song albeit sorrowful, and closes out on a different note with John singing, "Hey Lucy, I remember your name."
The group's second studio album included the singles "Awake and Alive", "Hero", and "Monster" which were, respectively, certified 2x Multi-Platinum, 3x Mutli-Platinum, and 5x Multi-Platinum. The album reached #2 on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. By 2017 the album was certified 2x Multi-Platinum by the RIAA for two million sold. See image above for all the RIAA sales certification data of this album*.
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"So I think that once you get into comic books, or if you collected rock albums when we were kids and these huge vinyl albums and they had all these awesome, I would call it 'fantastical' artwork. 'Fantastical', meaning Conan The Barbarian-type artwork of other worlds. And some of it was futuristic, and some of it was more like dragons and things like that. It's almost kind of like it's a world of its own that I think a lot of people never looked at, and it never meant something pagan to them or something like that. So a lot of the times I will just that's kind of what I was raised in. It never meant anything bad to me. So when I meet people that have a problem with it, I don't mind it at all. I just say, 'Hey, I understand where you're coming from. I want to honor God with this, and I don't believe it dishonors God any more than I would believe that 'The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe' would dishonor God. And I do realize there are Christians that do think that dishonors God. But for me, I think it's a great story of good and evil.
"Our album covers, I would say, usually try to reflect some sort of spiritual principle. Our album 'Awake' was me wrapped up in bandages, almost like a mummy, like I'd just come out of a coma from a wreck or something, and all you can see my eyeball. And it says 'Awake'. Somebody once said it was The Illuminati, because you could see my eye, but the bandages went like this and it made a triangle. [Laughs] At the time I didn't know what The Illuminati was, so I had to look it up. And I was, like, 'No, it's not illuminati.' But it's a great conversation starter. What is this about? Well, what this means is that I was dead to sin but I have been made alive to Christ. I was dead in my trespasses, but I have been made alive through the death of Jesus Christ. It's a great conversation starter, and I think that's what great art does, in my opinion."
2009 release, Skillet's eighth studio album, Awake, recorded with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson. The foursome's overwhelmingly satisfied with the entire sonic and thematic palette throughout Awake, which is loaded with plenty of anthems in the making destined to be smash singles and concert sing-a-longs. Skillet's massive fan base (who affectionately refer to themselves as "Panheads") are sure to agree, though they'll likely be even more impressed with the lyrical outpouring, which remains a top priority for the players. The album contains 12 tracks, including 'Monster' which were added to their live set during their Comatose Tour, and the single 'Hero'.
AFTER the success of their 2016 album 'Unleashed', US rock team Skillet will bereleasing 'Unleashed Beyond', a deluxe version of their album, on 17thNovember. 'Unleashed Beyond' will feature eight bonus tracks - fivepreviously unreleased songs (including "Breaking Free" featuring onetime Flyleaf singer Lacey Sturm); two remixes and the film version of"Stars" as featured in the motion picture The Shack. be457b7860
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