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Please try again later. Alternative Christian rockers Skillet strike a balance between metalfest headliners and the worship band stage, delivering hard-charging anthems for secular and spiritual audiences alike. Slowly amassing an audience in the mid-'90s, they beefed up the band's lineup and broke into the mainstream in with their fourth album, Alien Youth. From there, the quartet experienced a quick ascent on the charts, rapidly increasing in popularity with each successive release.

By , they had reached number two on the Billboard with their best-selling effort to date, Awake. Subsequent LPs Rise and Unleashed proved just as popular, attracting a diverse audience with their reliably propulsive and riff-heavy output. They again topped the Christian Albums chart with 's Victorious before returning with 's Dominion.

Invincible followed in early , and the group contributed three tracks to the Ardent Worship: Skillet Live compilation that same year. With a new lineup of Cooper on bass and lead vocals, his wife Korey Cooper on guitar and keyboards, Ben Kasica on guitar, and Lori Peters on drums, Skillet released Alien Youth on Ardent Records in , marking their first appearance on the Billboard Skillet followed with Collide in Collide went on to be the band's best-selling album to date even earning a Grammy nomination , and Skillet supported the record on tours with bands like Saliva and Shinedown.

Skillet 's next effort for the label, Comatose , appeared in fall , continuing their steady rise on both the charts and in sales. However, it wasn't until 's Awake that the band hit their stride.

The first studio effort to feature new drummer Jen Ledger , Awake topped the U.