P.O.D.’s latest album, Testify, finally hits stores
As a big fan of nu-metal rock quartet Payable On Death, I have been highly anticipating their brand new album, which I’ve mentioned in this space before. Well, the new album has finally hit stores! It’s called Testify, and I’ve been hearing great things about it. I love the albums logo too. It makes me extremely happy to see P.O.D. returning to their spiritual roots. Even though they always have been; they’ve always been pretty vocal in letting it be known that they are in fact Christians, and they do percieve their music through a Christian lense. They certainly never have denied their faith, but they did recieve a lot of flack for their previous self-titled album in which they didn’t blatantly make any mentions toward God or Jesus, using instead the ambigious “You” or, more commonly, the P.O.D. staple phrase “Jah”, which is in reference to “Jehova”, naturally. (though an uninformed person may not notice or make the connection)
So P.O.D. must’ve sensed the dismay from their core fanbase, who certainly like to see them talk about God, as well as from other outlets who had called them sell-outs. People had even spread rumors that they were no longer Christians (if money is going to sell you out to God then you must not have been a true believer in the first place IMO). Of course,P.O.D. themselves had always maintained that they were Christians, and their music, even on their last album, did reflect it. It simply wasn’t blatantly speaking about God or Christ, and down from their break-out second major album, Satellite, which is the one that got them really popular in the first place and featured mentions of God and faith prominently (especially on the title-track Satellite).
I was also very happy to find out that a Deluxe Edition of the album is also available. I was looking for it the other day and ended up finding several copies at Best Buy (for some reason the Christian bookstore I went to had tons of copies of the regular album but no deluxe editions). Much to my surprise, the limited edition was much more than simply an extra disc added to a standard jewel case, which is usually the case with special edition albums. P.O.D. went all out for the limited edition of Testify. Instead you get a very nice steel case (which reminded me of the special edition Halo 2 case), with an included 24-page full color booklet, and an extra DVD disc that includes not only a documentary on the album but also commentary for every track! The limited edition also includes 5 new songs! Very cool to see them supporting their fans so much, the are good to us Warriors (P.O.D. fans are called Warrior’s in case you didn’t know)
So I can’t wait to get the new album and I hope every Christian goes out to support this album and P.O.D. for being the light to the world that God has called them to be. You may see them on TV as well. They’ve been making a lot of appearances on TRL and even Jay Leno and Carson Dailey’s show, unfortuneatly I have missed all their appearences, but I’ll post a link to where you can view or download them if I can manage to find a site that has the videos posted.
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