September Music Destructicon Part One

This September, I downloaded exactly three albums, two of which were special editions, and all three bands changed their sound more than a new album warrants. So, in order of most crap to least crap, I'm going to review all three of those albums this week.

And, the (un)lucky #1 is...

First Skillet Album I downloaded. After hearing quite a few too many of their singles, I really expected better from their album. I also didn't think the classification of Christian Rock was right until I heard this album. So a few too many surprises.

Now, let's cut the crap: No one listens to Skillet for their music. That's just so zetta silly I wouldn't know how to react if someone told me they did. The Last Night was your favorite song off of Comatose because you cut yourself and could relate to the lyrics and thought they had a nice message. So I'm going to save you the time and tell you to not bother with the lyrics of Awake. As I hinted at above, they're much more Christian and much less I-feel-your-pain lyrics. Well, they're not all all Christian, of course. Just take their lyrics from Monster, which totally aren't plagiarized from Three Days Grace's Animal I Have Become: "It's scratching on the walls, in the closet, in the halls/It comes awake and I can't control it/Hiding under the bed, in my body, in my head."

*snort*

Well, don't those just sound-

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!! LOLSAUCE!!!!!!

-like perfectly zetta good lyrics?

So okay, you can't come to terms with the new style of lyrics, but Skillet's not bad musically. Comatose had the title track and Whispers in the Dark (overrated, but still an okay song). Why can't Awake have good music? Well, it sounds a bit more mainstream, and, oh, yeah, a bit more like CRAP! I've definitely heard the intro to Hero before, most likely in a Linkin Park song, and the only thing to distinguish the rest of the song from every other song you heard on the radio today is Jen Ledger's backup vocals. And, speaking of vocals, John Cooper isn't a very good lead singer. Well, sure, he gets the singing part down, but not the voice. It's too raspy, like Till Lindemann without the awesome. Both of the band's other vocalists get the voice part down, but you don't notice because they don't have as many parts! The guitar playing in Monster is fine, but as for the rest of the CD... drumming was average. Don't feel like saying more.

So no, Skillet's Awake did not convince me that God is zetta awesome enough that I should turn to religion for comfort. It did make me want to read Letter to a Christian Nation or watch Religulous, though. A disappointing album for Skillet fans, but a delight fort everyone else.