| Collide | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Skillet |
| Cover: | Collide (album).jpg |
| Released: | November 18, 2003 |
| Recorded: | March – June 2003 |
| Length: | 45:26 |
| Label: | Ardent (original), Lava (remaster) |
| Producer: | Paul Ebersold, John L. Cooper, Kevin Kadish |
| Prev Title: | Alien Youth |
| Prev Year: | 2001 |
| Next Title: | Comatose |
| Next Year: | 2006 |
Collide is the fifth studio album by American Christian rock band Skillet. It was originally released on Ardent Records on November 18, 2003.[1] The album was re-released on Lava Records as an enhanced CD with the bonus track "Open Wounds" on May 25, 2004.[2] Collide peaked at No. 179 on the Billboard 200 and No. 5 on the Top Heatseekers. The album artwork, according John Cooper in a 2004 interview, is "faith and fear colliding."[3] The album has sold over 320,000 units in the USA alone. The album received positive reviews. Collide was nominated for "Best Rock Gospel Album" at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards on February 13, 2005.[4] Even though the album has sold enough copies to go gold, it has never been certified by the RIAA. On this album, Collide shed the industrial rock sound that Skillet utilized for three records in favor a heavier nü-metal sound.
A music video was made for the single "Savior". The video shows the band playing in both a house and at a park at night. It became only the second Skillet music video to include a story, after "Best Kept Secret" from Invincible in 2000, though the story in the "Savior" video is more heavily featured. The video shows an abusive father mistreating his children in the house, and the subsequent escape of the children from him. They make their way to the park, while the location where the band plays switches from one to the other. The video ends with the children being safe in their mother's arms. Lead singer and bassist, John Cooper, has said that 'Savior' is a song written mostly about his childhood. Although he was not physically abused by his father, he had a very destructive emotional relationship with him.
Live recording appears on Comatose Comes Alive (2008)
Appears on The Platinum Collection compilation (2012)
Credits taken from the CD liner notes.
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