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P.O.D. biography
 Sound. Here comes the Sound. Prepared or not here comes the boys from the South. P.O.D. have exploded to the stratosphere with their finest labor to time the strange "SATELLITE." A tall-decibel sound of effective angry-historical competence stone the San Diego-based quartet's subordinate Atlantic Records delivery is at turns happy aggravating challenging and utterly genuine. Co-produced by the circle with Howard Benson (the human behind the wood for P.O.D.'s RIAA platinum certified brand appearance 1999's "THE Basic ELEMENTS OF SOUTHTOWN") tracks similar the enthusiastic earliest alone "Existent" or the emotionally charged "Early period of the Country" discovery P.O.D. relentlessly reaching heavenward to evoke a feeling of definite vibrations alone to today's stone n' revolving. "Whole the large stone bands were always driven by emotion and mental state" says Marcos the circle's adjustable guitarist "whether it's a contradictory emotion and mental state or a definite emotion and mental state. And for us a property of the stone that's gone today - and I'm not maxim any names - a property of it's empty of any class of mental state. It's whole processed and accomplished up in the studio. But to us we always put whole of our adoration and entirety that we have into our harmony." "SATELLITE" was recorded at Water 7 Recording Studio in Sherman Oaks and Representation Studios in Los Angeles accomplished a three-month time extent in jump 2001. With Benson and longtime Metallica designer Randy Staub at the helm P.O.D. recorded nearly 20 recent songs. The sessions saw the four musicians stretching gone into the circle they'd always envisioned themselves as existence a truly without charge stone whole incorporating an limitless difference of textures and styles - from reggae to stone hip-hop to hardcore - into an already type-blurring sonic weapons. "There's not undoubtedly a discussion that container describe P.O.D." says Marcos. "If you were to spirit to each individual of our homes and examination at our CD collections you would see entirety from metal to punk to jazz to reggae you title it. Entirety. Except maybe rural but additional than that we have it whole." "If it feels pleasant it feels pleasant" notes Traa. "That's a P.O.D. standard. When I came to the circle I was real obstinate about what I wanted to theater piece but existence with these guys opened me up to a property of dissimilar harmony. And the greatest substantial entity with harmony is how does it make you texture. Not whether you similar it or don't similar it. If you texture pleasant listening to entity then it's a pleasant melody. If you don't then it's not." The idea that stone n' revolving is meant to progress and inspire is accepted on "SATELLITE" especially on such tracks as the fashion-jumping "Ghetto" and the very happy song "Existent." "We didn't have a title for it yet" says Sonny of the latest melody's beginning "but we were profession it 'Attractive' because it made us texture attractive. And that gathering the management of the lyrical happy because we wanted humans to spirit 'Hey this makes me texture pleasant.' We recorded the singers I don't know how abundant times because it was similar 'Let's profit it up a indentation. Let's profit it higher.'" The lyrical happy during whole "SATELLITE" - often affecting often strong always sensual - deals with the circle's explicit faith in expressions of religious risk and declaration. A math unit of songs containing the Mexicali-tinted "Thinking About Everlasting" and the disappointing heading mark were inspired by the end of Sonny's female. 'Satellite' is about that human that entity in the atmosphere watching gone for you" he explains. "Greatest humans who lose star have that idea that they're gone there looking gone for you watching your end." Perhaps the greatest strong melody on "SATELLITE" is "Early period of the Country." The mark is the circle's not cooked wrenching answer to the current disease of education place attack. "We had accomplished a demonstration for some kids that went to Columbine" says Sonny "they wanted P.O.D. to theater piece fair for a definite help class entity. And it was always in the end of our minds similar fair what are these kids going done. This is the hardest period for kids." "It's always been a subject on journey" Marcos adds. "I don't desire to say it inspired us but it gave us the ambition to write entity. Healthy when we were printing this account we wanted to be isolated so we went to Santee in East San Diego where we had this 35x35 preparation studio. Individual light we were on our method to routine and we saw whole these cops but we didn't know what was going on. After we found gone what had happened." What had happened was catastrophic - on March 5th a 15-year-aged novice at Santee's Santana Tall Education place drew a .22-capacity handgun and began shooting killing two and wounding 13. "We were in the studio" Traa recalls "we started jamming and some spooky guitar notes started approaching gone these not light drum beats÷It fair came composed naturally once again. We fair told Sonny 'Human insult far down and write a account.'" "It was an passionate place" Marcos says "the principal mastery space in the studio has a TV and we're watching the information on there thinking "Human this is a disorder.' I'm the singular individual that doesn't have kids but everybody was similar 'Slick man that could have been my kids in there' or 'That could have been my sister.'" "SATELLITE" also sees P.O.D. joined in the studio by two of their heroes. Famous Jamaican toaster Eek-A-Mouse appears on the cold-continuous "Absurd" interval "Without Jah Nothin" features the freestyle spoken pronouncements of the prodigiously talented - and notoriously bizarre - HR of the Poor Brains extended acknowledged as P.O.D.'s whole-period preferred circle. "You don't know if HR's strange or what" he adds laughing. "He walked into the studio with a birdcage with two parakeets in it but I don't know exactly what that was about. I started perception this chirping and I was similar 'Where'd those birds come from. 'Those are HR's birds.' I was similar 'Alright'" "Real not many bands today have any admiration for the done" Marcos notes of P.O.D.'s collaborations with their harmonic predecessors "and how container you conquer the expected if you don't know anything about the done. As a circle we admiration the done from being to punk anything you container think of that had mental state we admiration that. And there's a property of elements that we've taken from those humans and brought into our harmony that a property of bands today don't flat concern about." P.O.D. have extended been brief understanding onto their numerous of committed fans famous as The Warriors. This fiercely faithful grassroots next gathering the 1999 alone/video "Stone The Gathering (Gone The Fastener)" to the highest mark on MTV's Complete Question Existent - making P.O.D. the third-ever stone circle to extent the #1 place in TRL past with Korn and Weak Bizkit. The analysis for the Warriors' emotion is clear - P.O.D. are the genuine agreement a true-to-the-skeleton stone n' revolving circle whose emotions and being are always beginning and middle. "We don't come with a scheme" Wuv says proudly. "We're normal humans fair kicking it. We're fair effective you our account." "We do what we know is fair for us" Sonny affirms. "And that's it. We don't spirit gone there and give a moral when we get on level we don't shove anything below person's throat. But we sing about what's genuine in our animation. And that's the fundamental mark." The men of P.O.D. grew up in the metropolitan of San Ysidro - a.k.a. "Southtown" a different society below close by the California/Tijuana margin. In 1992 the adjustable drum-playing Wuv invited his hip-hop fan cousin Sonny to profit the mic in a beginner hardcore combo he'd started with his guitarist confidant Marcos. With the adding the next year of the Cleveland-innate Traa on depression-driven bass P.O.D. was total. They blew up stages with punk heroes similar New Light Pennywise and the Vandals in venues ranging from skate parks to YMCAs selling accomplished 40000 copies of four free CDs on their belonging Saving Records brand before inking with Atlantic in 1998. Powered by the accomplishment of the singles "Southtown" and "Stone The Gathering (Gone The Fastener)" "THE Basic ELEMENTS OF SOUTHTOWN" strike #1 on Billboard's Heatseekers map going on to reap RIAA platinum certification. The critically acclaimed holder was acknowledged as the San Diego Harmony Awards' 1999 "Holder of the Year" with "Melody of the Year" honors going to "Stone The Gathering (Gone The Fastener)" and P.O.D. taking domestic the "Excellent Rocklike Stone or Metal Collection" award for the subordinate consecutiveyear. In adding the circle were included among Rolling Stone's yearly "Humans of the Year" for 2000. True to their hardcore roots P.O.D. remain individual of the hardest active bands in America spending additional than partial the year on the path playing largely to whole-ages crowds at division parks coffeehouses colleges and coliseums. They were principal level sensations on Ozzfest 2000 they toured alongside Staind and Strange Community as piece of 2000's MTV Coming again Of The Stone Journey and in current old age have shared stages with Youngster Stone Linkin Lawn Primus Sevendust and Korn. The circle's Rick Rubin-produced "Education place of Rocklike Knocks" was the earliest alone/video from 2000's Adam Sandler entertainment Small Nicky. P.O.D. tracks have appeared on the soundtracks to such films as Any Likely Sunday and Prepared To Rumble. They've also made appearances on a math unit of tall-drawing TV shows containing NBC's The Tonight Demonstration With Jay Leno The Howard Serious Radio Demonstration and Farmclub.com added MTV's 120 Minutes The Coming again of the Stone and Stone N' Jock Bowling. In adding Sonny has guested on ABC's Politically Wrong With Account Maher. "We're difficult to be worldwide" Marcos says. "If we container get your grandma listening to us if we container get the small three-year-aged youngster listening then it's accomplished. What is your intention as a music artist. You're playing an tool so that humans container hear you human. Why do you theater piece existent. To be seen. And for your harmony be heard. If not why in the heck are you playing guitar." |