Hi my friends!I'll introduce one more music group.It is a hard rock group.It's name is "Skillet".Skillet has been nominated to the Grammy two times, Collide and Comatose were in winner albums.Skillet; made a lot of kinds of different 1-3 million albums since 2009.The members of groups are :


John Cooper
( Soloist, Bass Guitarist )




John's wife Korey Cooper 
( Rhythm Guitar, Vocalist, Keyboarplayer )



Seth Morrison
( Guitarist )


Jen Ledger
( Batterist )

With a mix of heavy electric guitar, keyboards and strong melodies ; Skillet resembles a heavy metal band, but it promotes Christian message.The group has had number one in eight songs slot on Christian radio and has been nominated for Dave Awards.

The founder of the band John Cooper grew up in a conservative Christian home, where his parents enforced rules about the music he was allowed to listen.They favored whole some singer Amy Grant, but Cooper was interested in Christian rock band Stryper, who emulated the heavy metal sound and he liked the bizarre costumes and makes up of the hardcore mainstream band "Kiss".He had sneak over to his friends houses to listen Stryper, because his parents would not know him to play their music in their home.Even when Stryper won the highest award in Christian music.Dove Award, his father refused to let him watch the awards on TV.

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Cooper had an interesting experience when he attended a concert of the heavy metal rocker Marilyn Manson.He was curious about Manson, because Skillet's musics were often compared to Manson's.While he was sitting among the audiences, he listened to Manson's scream about Jesus and sang the
song loudly.In November of 2003 the band moved to Lava Records and released their album Collide.This album, unlike their earlier ones didn't explicitly mention Jesus.

Cooper told "Christianty today" that in the 1980s , he had been a huge fan of heavy metal music.He noted that he had been afraid that those kind of guitars and rhythms wouldn't be accepted, but now I'm not afraid of to take to people that places even if they aren't necessarily expacting that on a Skillet album.

M.Hamid Bayrak