Skillet - Dominion Album Review

So the multi-platinum Christian hard rock band are back! WITH A BRAND NEW ALBUM! Full of their signature style and sound but with added layers on this new album I felt. So the foundation of Skillet's musical career has been catchy choruses, female vocals (Jen Ledger) which wrap around and accompany to male vocals (John Cooper) in just the right spots. However this new album's new layers are things I never expected from Skillet and I think this experimentation on this album works well!

Along with Skillet's style now comes some synth, some dubstep like sounds (possibly djent too) and of course some double peddle hard hitting drums and metal guitar solos in some songs and honestly they caught me off guard. Now not every single song is hard hitting Christian rock fest but some are slow down sombre songs which is also still a big part of Skillet's discography. Normally Skillet's messages and songs have had a lot of their inspiration in the songs or the songs be about bleak or dark points but the message here in this album is a more positive note and of hope.

I think this album is John and Jen's best and most unique for their vocals especially John as we see through every song his range and how much he can do. Be it soft spoken tones to aggressive singing to even some sort of tempo rapping, John really shows here he can do whatever he wishes and he can make it work. The band is showing off so many layers and dimensions to themselves here in this album and that's something that's quite a hard challenge to pull off I'd imagine BUT they make it work and IT WORKS SO WELL!!!!

I found Valley Of Death to be one of the most hard hitting beautiful songs I have had the pleasure of hearing and I was driving to work the first time I heard this album in full and my god I became a blubbering mess when I first heard this track!

Ignite the penultimate song should have been the song to end the album with as I feel White Horse is the most unique but also weakest song on this album which is quite a divisive opinion even for me to have and think and to say and now to type and publish for the world. I feel this way as Ignite ends smoothly and White Horse is very out of place I feel but it's unique for it's industrial sound and distortion and then for the up tempo rapping.

My favourite songs: Ignite, Destroyer, Beyond Incredible, Valley Of Death, Dominion, Standing In The Storm, Surviving The Game.

8/10

It's a new album from Skillet which I love and perhaps with more time the album will grow much more on me to rank it a bit higher but after 4 playthrough's of this album, I REALLY ENJOY IT! 

Skillet keep rockin it!

Dear reader, please stay shiny!

See you soon!

Cut My Wrists, I wanna feel alive! (Original song/lyrics)

Cut my wrists and make me feel alive!!!!

One day is all it takes, to lose your mind to fall down the pit of despair.

With a broken heart and a damaged mind, all too far beyond repair.

Screams of anguish will be unleashed, as I fall into a deep sleep,

Take away all this pain and suffering, leaving me numb and unaware!

Cut my wrists and make me feel alive,

The world is numb and devoid of colour.

With no one on my side, I carry all the baggage within me.

My internal world is freaking out, with my mind racing and my vision a blur,

Cut me up and make me feel alive!

The want to feel alive again makes me crumble with fear,

I will avoid and detach, how long will this last,

When the familiar faces all turn blank, Who is there to support me,

When my body aches and my inner voice years to feel death's embrace,

Will I ever wake up, will I ever find life's key,

Cut my wrists and make me feel alive,

The world is numb and devoid of colour.

With no one on my side, I carry all the baggage within me.

My internal world is freaking out, with my mind racing and my vision a blur,

Cut me up and make me feel alive!

Just one knife, just one slice,

just one cut across my wrists,

Make me feel alive, give me a rush, 

Let me smell the iron in the air and let my skin tear, 

I am far beyond repair!,

So cut my wrists and make me feel, make me feel alive!!!!

(originally written 2/11/21)

Films Ratings 2022

 As ever here is my annual film list of those films I am most excited to see this year and my ranking out of 10 for them once I have seen them. 

This list will be updated every month!

The Matrix Resurrections - 3/10

Scream - 6/10

Save the cinema - 8/10

Cyrano 1/10

Morbious - 1/10

Jackass Forever - 9/10

Uncharted - 7/10

The Batman - 10/10!

The Adam Project - 7/10

Jujustu Kaisen 0 - 8/10

Sonic 2 - 9/10

Dr Strange Multiverse Madness - 7/10

The Northman - 10/10

Jurassic World Dominion - 3/10

Men 5/10

Thor: Love & Thunder - 5/10

Father Stu - 8/10

Dashcam - 3/10

Everything Everywhere All At Once 8/10

Turning Red - 2/10

Lightyear - 2/10

DC Superpets - 2/10

Black Phone - 7/10

Minions Rise Of Gru - 5/10

DragonBall Super: Superhero Movie - 9/10

MK: Snowblind - 8/10

Hocus Pocus 2 - 5/10

Halloween Ends - 3/10

Black Adam - 7/10

TOP 10 POSTS 2021!

The 10 posts with the most views from 2021 all listed and linked here!

10: I Have Covid

9: Top 10 MK Characters

8: Halloween Kills Review

7: Foo Fighters Top 10

6: 21 Pilots Scaled & Icy Review

5: Top 10 First TO Eleven Covers

4: Machine Head Arrows E.P. Review

3: Poppy Eat E.P. Review

2: Mugen Train Review

1: Fan Cast MHA live action

The Call Of Depression - (Original poem)

It comes from the deep, it watches as you sleep, nowhere to go, nowhere to hide, none may escape the tide, he gazes deeply to the bottom of our souls, he knows all, sees all, he brings the insurmountable death toll, the bells ring and people scream, 400 feet high this is not a dream, you are not going insane just don't look into his gaze, for this day we die.  

My body aches, its arms constricting all that exists depleting, death chaos and destruction light up its unimaginable eyes, it creeps ever so silently, we have to fight blindly, no where to go, no one to call for help, its dragging me under to sleep and be devoured like kelp.

Bloodcurdling screams echo around me, I cant stand this insanity, someone put me out of my misery, tears are rolling down my face whilst the monster drags me to its face, it breaks my ribs, I look at its gaze and I'm all out of place, I cant remember where I am, what is this, damn. Flashes, red flashes, bright cannot see, its anger lashing out at me, it won't let me go, it's trying to lead me astray from the light, its showing me I'm not good enough and I'm not worthy of existing, I think I'm going further out to sea and I might jump in, I cannot swim but I cannot breathe right now, everything is too much, I don't know what to do, it's hands cut my wrists and spreads open my flesh.

I'm taking leap despite it's hands wrapped around my neck, I'm bleeding profusely, I think I'm done goodbye, humanity.