Get ready to scream, folks! 🎸🔊 Christian rockers SKILLET have just announced their explosive new single, “Scream”, and it’s about to blow the lid off the music scene! 🤯 The new track is set to drop on July 10, and it’s just the beginning of a new era of music from the band. With additional releases expected later this year, fans are in for a real treat 🎁. But that’s not all – the band is also launching their “Comatose: 20 Years, Still Screaming Tour” this fall, produced by Live Nation, and it’s going to be a wild ride 🎢!
The announcement comes after a monumental start to the year for SKILLET. Their six-times-platinum anthem “Monster” recently surpassed four billion global streams, earned a place in Spotify’s Billions Club, and solidified its status as one of the most-streamed rock songs of all time 📊. And if that’s not enough, the band’s completely sold-out European headline tour moved more than 90,000 tickets across 23 cities, bringing SKILLET in front of the largest international audiences of their career 🌍. Talk about a monster success 🦖!
For the new music, the band returned to familiar ground, working with a producer who knew the band before they’d made their first record 🎤. “We went back to Memphis and worked with a producer who knew the band before we’d made our first record,” says SKILLET frontman John Cooper. “Life has taken some great turns, but it’s also taken some painful turns. Now we’re here, and we still have more of a story to tell. The music kept getting heavier, and I said, ‘We’ve got to go all in'” 🤘.
And go all in they did with “Scream” 🎸! Clean electric guitar slips into the undertow of crushing distortion as Cooper delivers a catchy and cathartic chorus: “I wanna scream. I wanna break something beautiful” 🤯. Ominous keys ring out, the beat snaps, and he wonders, “Will I ever be enough?” before a palm-muted bridge unleashes one final burst of emotion punctuated by glitchy electronics 🤯.
“I don’t think I’m the only one who’s noticing the volatility of the world and how social media is a cesspool where people are constantly yelling at each other,” Cooper explains 🙄. “It’s not helping anyone’s mental health. In this landscape, it’s easy to feel like nothing matters. ‘Scream’ is about wanting your life to matter when the world feels chaotic and overwhelming” 🌪️.
SKILLET performed “Scream” live for the first time during its headlining concert on May 14 at Arena 8888 in Sofia, Bulgaria 🇧🇬, and the crowd went wild 🎉! The release of “Scream” arrives alongside the announcement of the “Comatose: 20 Years, Still Screaming Tour”, celebrating two decades of the landmark album that helped define a generation of rock fans while showcasing the band’s next chapter 🎉.
“When we released our 2006 album ‘Comatose’, we all had a feeling that we were making something special,” recalls Cooper 🙏. “What we didn’t know is that the album would change the trajectory of the band’s career. It defined our sound, our message, and propelled the band into a much bigger level of notoriety. But most importantly, it resonated with all kinds of people from all walks of life. At every show, someone tells me that this record helped them through the darkest times of their life. That is why we wanted to celebrate the 20th anniversary of ‘Comatose’ by doing something we have never done — commemorating the album by dedicating a large portion of the show to these songs that are so meaningful to the band and so many others” 🙌.
Tickets will be available starting via a SKILLET artist presale and Spotify presale 🎟️. Additional presales will run ahead of the general on-sale which starts Friday, June 26 at 1:00 p.m. local time at LiveNation.com 🕒. For tickets, tour dates, and more information, you can also visit Skillet.com 📲.
Spotify Reserved: SKILLET’s Reserved by Spotify tickets may be available to eligible U.S. Spotify Premium subscribers through Ticketmaster 🎟️. Eligible fans will be notified by Spotify via e-mail and app notification, and will have the opportunity to purchase up to two tickets before the general on-sale 📣.
SKILLET tour dates are as follows:
Sep. 30 – Schenectady, NY – Proctors 📍
Oct. 02 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore 📍
Oct. 03 – Montclair, NJ – The Wellmont Theater 📍
Oct. 04 – Huntington, NY – The Paramount 📍
Oct. 07 – Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway 📍
Oct. 08 – Silver Spring, MD – The Fillmore Silver Spring 📍
Oct. 10 – Grand Rapids, MI – GLC Live at 20 Monroe 📍
Oct. 11 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore 📍
Oct. 12 – Pittsburgh, PA – Citizens Live at The Wylie 📍
Oct. 14 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant 📍
Oct. 16 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater 📍
Oct. 17 – Milwaukee, WI – Landmark Credit Union Live 📍
Oct. 18 – Omaha, NE – Steelhouse Omaha 📍
Oct. 20 – Kansas City, MO – The Midland Theatre 📍
Oct. 22 – Denver, CO – Fillmore Auditorium 📍
Oct. 23 – Salt Lake City, UT – The Union Event Center 📍
Oct. 26 – Airway Heights, WA – Pend Oreille Pavilion at Northern Quest 📍
Oct. 27 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre 📍
Oct. 30 – Wheatland, CA – Hard Rock Live Sacramento 📍
Oct. 31 – Inglewood, CA – YouTube Theater 📍
Nov. 01 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren 📍
Nov. 05 – Dallas, TX – House of Blues 📍
Nov. 06 – San Antonio, TX – The Aztec Theatre 📍
Nov. 10 – Lake Buena Vista, FL – House of Blues 📍
At the end of 2025, SKILLET released its first-ever Christmas recording, “O Come, O Come Emmanuel”, which quickly became a viral success and captured No. 1 on five Billboard charts, introducing the band’s music to new audiences while further expanding their worldwide reach 🎄.
With more than 23 million albums sold worldwide, more than 12 million monthly Spotify listeners, billions of streams across platforms, and a touring footprint that continues to expand globally, SKILLET remains one of the most successful and enduring rock bands of the modern era 🌟.
SKILLET has indisputably become one of the biggest global hard rock bands of the 21st century with total album sales exceeding 23 million, an average of 12 million monthly Spotify listeners, and dozens of massive placements across sports, film, and television 📺.
Awarded multi-platinum, platinum, or gold RIAA certifications for 12 singles and four full-length albums, the group has notably garnered two Grammy Award nominations, earned a Billboard Music Award, and impressively delivered three Top 5 debuts on the Billboard 200 🏆.
Widening the scope of this vision, SKILLET launched the graphic novel series “Eden” with Z2 📚. Looking ahead, SKILLET has hinted at some of its heaviest and hardest-hitting music to date, with new material expected later this year 🤘.
So, are you ready to scream? 🎸 Let’s get this party started 🎉! 🤘🎸🔊
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