VICTORIOUS
| Skillet
VICTORIOUS
Victorious is the tenth studio album by American Christian rock band Skillet, released on August 2, 2019. The album was announced on May 7, 2019, and a lyric video was released for the track "Legendary" at the same time on the band's YouTube channel. The band released the song "You Ain't Ready" on July 26, 2019, as a promotional single. - WIKIPEDIA
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Metal Injection
Skillet's fan base will love this record. There aren't a lot of risks taken, but the execution and songwriting are flawless. The album flows well and there's nary a moment of filler.
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Riff magazine
While Victorious may not necessarily turn nonbelievers into disciples, it successfully carries the torch for Skillet’s motivational message with a few welcome developments. With all of this going for it, Skillet wins round 10 in a TKO.
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JesusFreak hideout
this album will certainly satisfy current Panheads, although new listeners would be better off starting a few albums back.
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Metal Nexus
My opinion of this album is that it takes you on a roller coaster of ups and downs with its tempo. There wasn’t a song on ‘Victorious’ that I didn’t like at least some aspect of.
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ROCK 'N' LOAD
Victorious is a beautifully produced and executed album, right from the off you are fully immersed in a majestic sonic roller coaster that pushes and pulls your from one end to the other, the fluid songwriting is highly immersive and the rich vocal quality of both Cooper and Ledger interacting make for a highly addictive and engaging album.
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CRYPTIC ROCK
Victorious takes a closer look at what it means to survive and thrive, to make each day count, and urges listeners to continuously reach for the light though the world is full of darkness.
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sputnik music
Honestly, the most frustrating thing with Victorious isn’t even the bland direction in material, it’s instead the overbearing fact that at the band’s core are a collective of solid musicians that can do better than this.
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Hallels
"Victorious" may not truly live up to its titular, but it does offer songs that detail issues that pertain to the struggles of life. And they do lead us to the Gospel in ways that are organic, affective and palatable.
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Indie Vision Music
The new Skillet album is very well written, well executed, and shows that the band hasn’t lost their edge whatsoever.
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Ghost Cult magazine
I implore you to get up off your fanny perpendiculars and get this album immediately and binge listen to it until you know every word to every song right meow.
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Pure Grain Audio
Every song has been produced with love and dedication and it really is a victory for the band as a whole.
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Mayhem Magazine
The is a great album for longtime Skillet fans as well as those just discovering the band.
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Audio Ink Radio
SKILLET IS BACK WITH “VICTORIOUS,” AND THE ALBUM OFFERS A SPECIAL BLEND OF UPLIFTING MESSAGES AND GUTTING HARD ROCK.
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The Moshville times
Skillet truly have been Victorious in creating a great album.
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Deviant Art
Overall, the most devoted of Skillet fans will eat this album up and jam to the heavy songs and even enjoy the slower moments, but people outside of that who want to see Skillet truly evolve will not have as much victory in their hopes with this album.
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tbc
This album is arguably the biggest and most impactful Skillet release to date. Destined to make a huge impact in the rock community, Victorious also contains several potential cross-over hits that could bring the lifesaving message to an even larger audience.
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Under the Radar
Having outgrown the insular Christian rock scene and finding themselves sharing stages with some of the titans of their genre, the band emerge with more positive, hard, and heavy anthems of hope. The problem facing John Cooper and his experienced team is how to keep it fresh. Here they try and do it with processed drums on "Legendary" and an incredibly bright mix, which renders songs such as "Save Me" and "Rise Up" perfect for radio play but lacking the bite and aggression which would truly make them noteworthy.
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ROCK OUT AND STAND OUT
This album contains no fillers. Each song on the record contains a chest banging, fist pumping rhythm and a sense of fantastic dominance.
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Stargazed Magazine
“Victorious” is an album that never dips but “Anchor” is quite a boring moment.
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Medium
If you liked the last couple of Skillet records I think you will like this one. And if you haven’t heard them but like bands like Shinedown, it would be worth you while to give this one a listen.
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Dead Press
we definitely get the fight songs that we were promised.
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Vinyl Chapters
Victorious is a solid if not spectacular effort that likely won’t perk the interest of many new listeners, but will keep the Skillet faithful singing along in agreement…or whatever.
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CCM Magazine
Skillet’s John and Korey Cooper sing/shout the anthemic chorus to “Victorious,” the title track off this the band’s latest full-length effort, it creates the kind of adrenaline rush that propels Rocky to victory in the final round of (nearly) every fight. With this winning message, Christians can share in “victory through our Lord Jesus Christ,” as 1 Corinthians 15:57 reminds us.
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The Sound Board
The worst thing is it looks like this is their existence for the long haul now, embracing the cycle of a band guaranteed to find success through their tepid, unfulfilling means, and if calling this album Victorious is the taunt that Skillet know how well this works for them, that’s just an unnecessary amount of extra salt in the wound.
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JAS Reviews
I know Skillet can be better.
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ALL MUSIC
Although Victorious isn't groundbreaking by any means, it's another satisfying, defiant, and rousing collection of spiritual hype music.
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Solomon's podcast
I can't recommend any specific tracks because from start to finish, the whole album is excellent. Skillet knows their lane and they command it.
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Devolution
It is a phenomenal album to listen to.
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Ultimate guitar
My own opinion is that it is average, perhaps a little below.
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Tristen Zelder
While it does not shatter the record holder for the best Skillet album, it is a contender the second place.
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steemit
Almost every song on "Victorious" can be broken down into quotes and slogans for motivational posters. In this aspect, the record turned out to be really powerful, calling to action.
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Metal Temple
SKILLET must be the most significant “new” Rock band in the world these days, they reign (no pun intended) the Alternative, Classic Rock and Christian music markets and charts. Sound-wise there is a little bit of Post-Grunge, Industrial high definition arrangements, some Arena Rock and nowadays; IMAGINE DRAGONS influence.
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Louder Than the Music
it’s a stunning treasure chest of music.
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The heartland Attack
It’s a well-balanced, cohesive effort that effectively blends the band’s different sounds involving strings, electronics and keys.
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