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Satellite (P.O.D. album)

Satellite is the fourth studio album by American Christian nu metal band P.O.D. The album was released on September 11, 2001 debuting 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.

Satellite

September 11, 2001 (2001-09-11)

March – May 2001

53:04

Atlantic

Howard Benson

It went on to sell over three million copies in the U.S., and over seven million worldwide,[13] making it the band's highest-selling album. Satellite was placed at No. 137 on the Billboard's top 200 albums of the decade (2000–2009).[14] It was the 117th best-selling album of 2001[15] and the 26th best-selling album of 2002 in the United States.[16]

Album information[edit]

Satellite produced four singles with music videos; "Alive", "Youth of the Nation", "Boom", and title track, "Satellite".


"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".

(9/27/2001, pp. 67–8) – 4 stars out of 5 – "Explodes beyond the confines of what has become a played-out sound... songs on a passion so fierce they're almost exhausting to listen to.... Without resorting to ham-fisted angst, P.O.D. push all the right emotional buttons."[12]

Rolling Stone

(p. 89) – "[They] sang from the heart about school shootings, losing parents, and being truly alive."

Spin

(1/02, p. 106) – 3 out of 5 stars - "...heavy, angry, and very, very loud....many songs have messages of peace and spirituality....their Gen-X angst sounds genuine..."

Q

(10/1/2001, p. 16) – "[Its] honest spiritual subject matter coupled with crack-your-skull riffs work like a well-oiled machine."[17]

CMJ

put Satellite on its list called "10 Nu-Metal Albums You Need to Own".[18]

Revolver

A special edition re-release was released a year after the original album release, and featured the bonus tracks version

P.O.D.

Sonny Sandoval

Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Alive" (nominated)