Skillet will release a brand new album this summer dubbed Victorius, via Atlantic Records on August 2nd. Three years out from Unleashed, with a bunch of other projects in between, Victorious promises to be the most accomplished album in the bands’ career. Check out the first single and video from the new album right now, ‘Legendary’!
Frontman John Cooper told Billboard: “It’s the first time that me and Korey [Cooper, John’s wife and SKILLET guitarist/keyboardist] produced most of the record ourselves. When I was looking at what we did well on ‘Unleashed’, I thought it was a real energizing and fun record to listen to. That’s what a great SKILLET record is — songs that make people want to put their fists up in the air at a concert or get them through a run or drive or whatever they are doing. So we set out to make a record that had a lot of emotion to it.
“We got to really dig in and try anything we wanted to try, and that comes through in some of the intricacies of the production,” he added. “It’s quite a musical record. I think it’s a little bit more musical than we’ve done in a long time.”
John and Korey co-produced six of the 12 tracks on “Victorious” and co-produced two additional songs with Seth Mosley and Mike “X” O’Connor.
John also detailed the process of this albums’ creation in an interview with Ghost Cult in 2018, which you can see here:
Skillet and Sevendust will embark on the co-headline “Victorious War” tour in August and September. Pop Evil will support, while Devour The Day will open the shows. The tour kicks off on August 11 in Memphis.