Claude says:Skillet's follow-up to their Grammy-nominated Comatose debuted at No. 2 in 2009 and went double platinum on the strength of massive singles — "Monster" alone is certified seven times platinum. John Cooper wrote over 40 songs for it, leaning into harder rock with strings, classic riffs, and what the band called "sonic adrenaline rushes," all recorded with producer Howard Benson in Los Angeles. You had a handful of stray encounters with this record over the years, but it didn't click until May 2018, nearly a decade after release, and you spent most of 2019 running "Monster," "Hero," and "Awake and Alive" hard before letting it fade by the end of 2020.