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Satellite is the fourth studio album by the American alternative metal band P.O.D., released on Atlantic Records in September 2001. The album was recorded March – May 2001 by Randy Staub at Bay 7 Studios in Valley Village and at Sparky Dark Studio in Calabasas, California; and was produced by Howard Benson with the band co-producing. Mixed by Chris Lord-Alge at Image Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California.
P.O.D. is Sonny Sandoval on lead vocals, Marcos Curiel on guitars and vocals, Traa Daniels om bass and vocals, and Wuv Bernardo on drums and vocals. (It was the band’s last album with guitarist Marcos until When Angels and Serpents Dance, 2008.)
Satellite debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart with over 133,000 copies sold. It spent five consecutive weeks in the top 10 of that chart, and was certified triple platinum (three million copies) by the RIAA in August 2002, and went on to sell over seven million worldwide, making it the band’s highest-selling album, and was placed at No. 137 on the Billboard’s top 200 albums of the decade (2000–2009). It was the 117th best-selling album of 2001, and the 26th best-selling album of 2002 in the United States. “Alive” was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance. Although not released as a single, “Portrait” was nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 2003 Grammy Awards. “Youth of the Nation” also earned a nomination in 2003 for “Best Hard Rock Performance”.
P.O.D.’s time has definitely come with this album, it stayed in the US Billboard Top Ten for weeks, it will have easily gone Double Platinum in the States by now and the single «Alive» is Grammy nominated. With so much mainstream acclaim the more cynical among us might think they’ve watered down their message. We’d be wrong. Sonny has worked hard at making his lyrics really black and white and ‘Satellite’ is a great album because of it. The music comes in the form of utterly crunching guitar riffs and rhythms and the band’s constant style flipping, (check «Without Jah, Nothing»), ensures there’s something for everyone. ‘Satellite’ is a seriously good album, you can take it anywhere and people will love it – Christian and non – (provided of course they like nu-metal/rapcore) and that is the band’s crowning achievement, they haven’t diluted their message, they’ve intensified it and God is blessing them for it. [Ben Lilford, Cross Rhythms, January 2002]
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CD tracklist:
01. Set It Off
02. Alive
03. Boom
04. Youth Of The Nation
05. Celestial
06. Satellite
07. Ridiculous (feat. Eek-A-Mouse)
08. The Messenjah
09. Guitarras De Amor
10. Anything Right (feat. Christian of Blindside)
11. Ghetto
12. Masterpiece Conspiracy
13. Without Jah, Nothin’ (feat. H.R.)
14. Thinking About Forever
15. Portrait
Note: Released on both CD and 12-inch vinyl double LP by Atlantic.
“Youth of the Nation” (MUSIC VIDEO)
“Alive” (MUSIC VIDEO)
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