Skillet - Fingernails

Band:  Skillet
Song:  Fingernails
Album:  Collide
Genre:  Hard Rock

So as I'm sure some of you have picked up at this point, I have a very low opinion of bands that "sell out".  Nothing will make me drop a band quite as quickly as hearing them a lot on the radio.  When Skillet's album Awake came out in 2009 they really got snagged up by the radio.  They actually became a really huge crossover hit, doing well in both the Christian and secular charts.

That bugged me though, cause all my friends were rather sheltered and considered them to be Heavy Metal, citing the digitally altered "scream" in Monster.  As somebody trying to get into Metal music and having all their friends try to turn them toward The. Most. Popular. Christian Rock band at the time I kinda started to hate Skillet.

Things only got worse when the local Rock station played Awake & Alive and Monster to death as well.  It really killed anything I had felt about the band, which bugged me cause I still liked a lot of their songs.

I didn't even listen to any of the tracks off of Rise either when it came out.  I've since found a couple I enjoy, but honestly the success of Alive really killed Skillet for me.  Didn't even realize they dropped an album last year, haha

Then I saw their live show.  Man, they really do put on a solid show, I was impressed.  It was good enough that I decided to give 'em a listen for the first time in ages.

Now I posted that I loved their show on Facebook and a friend of mine immediately trashed their new music as "Pop Rock".  I mean, now that I've listened to the album I can kinda see where he's coming from, but I honestly can't really trash it.  It's not my style, sure, but a lot of it feels like a return to Skillet's old sound.  Not old like the song I've giving you today, but old like the crap they put out in 96, 98.  That stuff just wasn't really that great in my opinion, but it had a Pop, Industrial vibe to it.  This stuff has some of that feeling back and, honestly, that's not a bad thing.

When I just skipped around the album I managed to find all of their softer songs, but listening through it was actually a pretty good time.

I love how creepy and off this song starts.  It almost sounds like a track from Saw.  It could be in there, I wouldn't mind that.  Have fun!

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Skillet - Whispers In The Dark

Band:  Skillet
Genre:  Hard Rock

So I included this song today to show you one clear and possibly annoying thing.  Skillet totally ripped off Iron Maiden with their intro riff.  Remember the song from yesterday?  Yep, it's a very similar guitar part.

I rather like it.  I'm not sure if they did it on purpose like some sort of tribute to Iron Maiden as an influence or something, but this is honestly one of my favorite Skillet songs.  It's got a great groove to it and it's a song that I'd really love to learn.  Maybe I can convince my brother to learn it so we can turn it into some sort of Djent thing.  #Plans

Skillet - Sometimes

Band:  Skillet
Genre:  Hard Rock

I think every kid goes through an emo phase for a small time in their life.  Maybe not a long one, but I really think that almost everybody has this happen.

I was once an emo kid.  I was in denial of it of course because I didn't know what being emo meant, I just knew I didn't want to have that label.  I was a really terrible emo kid though.  I wore only black shirts, I had some chains as bracelets and a necklace, but I wore khakis.  Yep.  Cargo khaki pants.  Hella emo.

When I was being all emo and such I felt all connected to this song.  It was all like, "Oh look at me, I'm so emo and nobody can relate to me.  Life is so hard as a mean person."  Since I was being all internalized emo kid it really spoke to me.

Now I can look back at that time and laugh, but gosh.  I was so freaking cringy.  Better now though, so there we go.

Skillet - Stand

I'm assuming that most of you weren't raised on a copious amount of Veggie Tales like I was.  One of my favorite episodes ever was the chocolate factory episode, though if you haven't seen the show I don't expect you to know what I'm talking about.  It's ok, I forgive you.

That episode had a fantastically funny song about standing up for what you believe in.  It was later re-imagined by Skillet in the Veggie Rocks album.  This album has a lot of really crappy song son it, but this and 1 or 2 others were good.

Please, enjoy this wonderful rendition of a Veggie Tales song.