Rise

Skillet Rise CD is truly an amazing music CD with powerful lyrics and emotions that make you proud to stand up for Faith, Religion. I can honestly say just like the CD Awake I enjoyed every song on this CD also start to finish. The band mixes religious lyrics songs with softer rock songs plus showing how strong relationships play in shaping your life's journey with that person you care deeply for. Songs like American Noise, Fire and Fury show that emotion of a relationship bond so strong impacts you day in and day out, example "Let Love cut threw the American Noise" and "Burn within me with Fire and Fury." Then feel good songs like Circus for a Psycho and My Religion that you want to sing along to the lyrics because there that good or even dance to the music on My Religion kind like a swinging type music from back in the day. Then of course there are the songs like Madness in Me and Sick of It that show the dark period in your life and strong emotions in the lyrics showing you that you just need to fight threw it and believe in yourself to make yourself better. Then in my viewpoint you have six songs that relate to Religion featuring Rise, Good to be Alive, Not Gonna Die, Salvation, Hard to Find, and What I Believe. Rise is one of my favorites on the CD because of the lyrics feature line "Keep what you Love." Then Not Gonna Die feature line "Whatever doesn't Kill Me makes me stronger" which truly believe in that phrase. Then last the song Hard to Find feature line "Faith is Hard to Find" which now a days is true on so manly levels. True Faith is in your Heart, Mind, Body and Soul. In closing if your a fan of Skillet and there powerful religious lyrics mixed with strong emotions and showing there fans is good to stand up for yourself and be proud of Religion and believe in God because he is there for you threw it all "good times and bad times."

This is a solid album from Skillet, and a much better follow-up to "Comatose" than "Awake" was. With this album, the band offers a good amount of variety by structuring the singles into a story. Many of the singles end with a prelude into the next song, rewarding the listener with more rich content, while also helping tie together a cohesive narrative. There is a nice amount of variety and atmosphere across the album, keeping the entire experience fresh and engaging throughout. My only complaint comes from the lack of consistency in the quality of each single. Some singles, like "Rise", "Circus of Psychos", and "Not Gonna Die" are certainly of higher quality than other singles in the album, such as "American Voice", "Good to be Alive", and "My Religion". After my first listen through, I often find myself skipping many songs in the album, which is a shame. Can't say this is the best album the band has released, but for what it is, it's definitely worth a full listen, for its movie-like presentation and many of its high quality singles. Also, if you have the funds, I'd recommend picking up the Deluxe Edition, as it comes with two singles that add to the experience.

Rise" is Skillet's magnum opus. It's perhaps the best album that they will ever create. Musically it incorporates Skillet's entire body of work from the early electronic influences to the harder edge of "Collide" to the symphonic rock found on the most recent albums, yet all these elements work together to relentlessly push "Rise" into new places. The effect of everything hitting at once is visceral--tangible.Thankfully, I'm no longer the painfully strange middle schooler who latched onto the crying angst and loneliness found in Skillet albums like "Collide;" however, I believe I'm always going be asking questions like "How can evil like that exist in this world", or "What is my place" to "How on earth am I going to get through this day." These questions and answers have always been the core of John Cooper's writing; however "Rise" puts these messages into a logical progression and flow that makes them even more powerful."Rise" is not a rock opera or concept album in the way many people are probably used to---probably because most of types of albums always seem so forced. However, it is in fact a concept album divided into three separate chapters. It's not so much a story as an emotional journey as seen through the perspective of a young teenager. The first act is about a kind of naive brashness and optimism ("Rise" to "Not Gonna Die"). The second act is really a horror and growing awareness of the world ("Circus for a Psycho" to "Madness in Me"), and the third act is about redemption and hope (everything after "MiM").Now a casual listener could totally hear a few singles, and get a pretty good idea of the message of "Rise"--as well as thoroughly enjoy those singles--but I do strongly suggest listening at least twice to the entire album in progression for the full impact of the writing. Also, one need not be a Christian or even particularly religious to both be moved by this album as well as enjoy it for being a killer rock record. It's very telling that in 2012, only three "rock" bands achieved platinum status (if you're seriously counting Mumford and the Black Keys as rock bands along there with Skillet). That's not to say though that Skillet hides their Christianity in any way though. From quoting Bible verses to explicit Christ references, it's very clear that John's answers to the aforementioned questions are found in a deep and abiding trust in Christ.Musically, "Rise" is aggressive and loud. John Cooper is simply one of the most intense rock performers still active who is also out on the road for the majority of the year. You can hear his passion and skill honed by countless performances in the past 20 plus years he's been professionally creating music. The addition of Seth Morrison on lead guitar was almost certainly a factor in kicking up the edge in "Rise", as Seth lets loose with several mean riffs. John's wife Korey is always a solid presence, adding depth and complexity with both her backing vocals that blend so well with John as well as her skill on multiple instruments. Jen Ledger is still simply a wunderkind on the drums, able to flawlessly move from crashing thunderclaps to providing the fragile heartbeat to the music. She also has an expanded role on this album, sharing more lead vocal duties with John. It's extremely rare to have a rock band integrate two powerful female rock musicians as simply integral members of the band as opposed to just the lead singer or eye candy. Too often I feel like the male/female divide in rock is akin to the "separate but equal" philosophy, where the best of the best are usually in all one gender bands. It's great to see that turned on it's head with Skillet.Jen also provided the exquisite album artwork which so beautifully encapsulates the message of "Rise." I think everyone still sort of feels like a little kid sometimes, facing the world-- feeling like all you have is your slingshot and not sure if you can actually take down Goliath."Rise" is no doubt one of if not the rock release of the year. It's unapologetic in it's message, yet any appreciator of rock music can find something to love about it. For fans of Seether, Three Days Grace, Red, Thousand Foot Krutch, Breaking Benjamin, and even bands like Paramore.***Definitely recommend the deluxe version, as one of my favorite songs "Battle Cry" is a bonus track. Other song standouts: the very different for Skillet "My Religion" which has touches of almost rockabilly and "Salvation" where John and Jen trade vocals with lush orchestration.

This is a good album by Skillet but not great and isn't at the level of Skillet's albums Awake or Unleashed. Still there are some very good songs on this album - Sick of It, Not Gonna Die, Fire and Fury and What I Believe. An album I think many will like but may end up comparing to the aforementioned albums which are better.

Here we have the all new album from one of the best rock band in America right now. If you have never heard them, this is a great place to start, and if you are already a big fan I can tell you that you will not be disapointed at all.A good couple of years or more since their last great album, suddenly this new one appears. While the last album had some great moments, seemed more polished and strong to begin with but it did actually then contain a few weak songs. It was a shame really but here with this album, it seems the band might have noticed that and we have here a much more well crafted overall album, generally very strong all the way, from start to finish, which is sometimes a problem with Skillet.It starts with a great big anthem, then onto first new single 'Sick of it' which is huge and catchy. After that there are many more, good tight strong tunes, still slick and catchy but almost every tune this time-and there are lots-is a very good one.Very much worth hearing this album-if you are a believer or secular, agnostic or just looking for really great big huge catchy rocking songs this is one of the best albums of 2013.For fans of Green Day, Flyleaf, Metallica, RED, Evanescence, Foo Fighters, KING'S X, and just really great uplifting rock music.

Went to see Nickelback at Leeds arena and this group were the backing band, only managed to see a bit of them but what we heard they were amazing, we went to buy there cd but all their merchandise had sold out, bought this through amazon and have never stopped playing it since. This group is a real mixture of heavy rock mixed very cleverly with classical instruments, they are fantastic

Musically occupying the same space as Nickelback and Green Day, Skillet are slick, melodic and energetic. What sets them apart is their roots in Christian rock (don't leave yet!). That translates into powerful, intense lyrics that are positive, uplifting and relevant. Listening to this album is so uplifting.

good product

My daughter likes this. She says its a good album.