Skillet has shared a “reimagined” version of the song “Save Me.” The original version of the track can be found on the band's 10th full-length album, Victorious, which was released last August.
Bassist/singer John Cooper told Cryptic Rock about the song, “I was thinking I could almost hear (Five Finger) Death Punch doing that chorus. Then I said, 'I just think that this could really be a Skillet song.' Instead of moving towards ultra-metal, it can move a little bit towards romantic and sad.”
Cooper added, “I know it doesn't sound like Five Finger — it sounds like Skillet — but for a musician, if they really picked apart the guitar and the drum parts and the chorus, you can hear that being a Death Punch chorus with his voice — if Ivan Moody was singing it.”
Cooper told us that Skillet always wants to strike the right balance with its sound every time it makes an album: “You're kind of trying to weigh this thing between, you want to do something that's new as an artist and something that's fresh, something that people don't expect, but at the same time, it can't be so new and so different that people don't want to play the song.”
Last month, Skillet announced the sequel to its 2019 graphic novel Eden. Titled Eden II: The Aftermath, it will be released in September 2020 in both standard and limited editions by Z2 Comics. The limited edition will be signed and will come with exclusive music.