Skillet

This album is Skillet at their absolute worst. I don’t care for old Skillet. I like modern Skillet music it’s heavier and more interesting sounding. I like I Can as my only favorite from this album. Though very slow it’s the only one I really know from here and has good message that is about you can do hard or difficult things in life by the power of God. It’s basically about God working with you in your hard lifetimes when you feel like giving up and not feeling like you’re able to do sometime. like it about 65 percent and the rest is okay about 50 percent. Still tolerable since it’s Skillet but it’s still their worst album. The reason why I like about 70 percent of Skillet and 30 percent not because their old stuff is too quiet and sounds less heavier without their electric sounds mixed with fun and interesting sounding keyboard Electric sounds. And their modern stuff is heavier and more catchy. Even though their message is Christian. About sixty percent and their old stuff is slightly more Christian about 75 percent l. That still isn’t the reason I don’t really like Old school Skillet music. It’s that it is too slow and quieter but still rock music and Skillet still rocks as a great Christian hard rock band!

Usually with bands like Skillet, their early stuff, especially their very first album, are horrible and unformed, not having established their sound and coming off naturally as immature. Not with Skillet. Not only is their debut well-formed and quite strong, it is also a LOT more mature than their latter day work (everything after Comatose sans Dominion), which you would think would represent the height of their craft and musicianship and growth but in fact represents the complete opposite. They may have never repeated the grunge rock of this album again, but that only makes it more special. John Cooper and the two members that had been such at the time play very confidentially, and his voice sounded a lot younger and less raspy but was a lot more formed than other singers at the beginning. Plus, there are some very catchy songs here, which flourish in their grunge setting. I can’t really say which songs are the best, I pretty much like them all equally except maybe You Thought, which is still better than later songs like Feel Invincible and Hero. After the self titled they converted to industrial, which was sudden but worked beautifully. But the self title holds up as well as those regardless, and should be heard by those who think Skillet were always mindless fist-pump rock.

This record is not for everybody, but those who hate Skillet (especially the modern day stuff) should definitely listen to this to see that there’s more to Skillet than “Awake and Alive” and “Feel Invincible”. Best songs: “My Beautiful Robe”, “Paint Me”, and “I Can”