Track Listing

1. Addicted
2. Shine With Me
3. Condescending
4. It Can't Rain Everyday
5. Kaliforn-Eye-a
6. I'll Be Ready
7. End of the World
8. This Ain't No Ordinary Love Song
9. God Forbid
10. Roman Empire
11. When Angels & Serpents Dance
12. Tell Me Why
13. Rise Against

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3516 in Music
• Released on: 2008-04-08
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Sad
This album is supposed to mark the triumphant return of Marcos, but it's just so melancholy. As usual they cover a ton of different musical styles, so they obviously still have it in them to make good songs, but they do so few loud, intense, fast songs. Addicted sounded promising and like a teasing for an amazing album. Instead it was the oddball exciting track that didn't fit with the others. It's a good album, but it's so sad in delivery that it's hard to listen to. Maybe that makes it a good companion to Satellite.

P.O.D. - When Angels and Serpents Dance 1/10
When Angels and Serpents Dance is a blast from the past, and not in a good way; rather, more a fetid, stagnant rank draft of the nu-metal that so unfortunately ruled rock radio in the late `90s and the beginning of the new millennium. P.O.D. was the scene's resident Christian "rock" band, combining heavy bass, distorted riffs, and syncopated rhythms with singing/rapping about God, loving God, and finding God.

A short listen to When Angels and Serpents Dance finds that little has changed. The guitars are still defiantly de-tuned, the singing is still mostly consisted of screaming and angsty yelps, and the lyrics still sound like they come from a demented hymn.

"Addicted" rips off the chorus melody from their earlier hit "Alive" and sounds exactly like it could have come from 2000. "Shine With Me" contains such cringe-inducing lyrics as "shine with me like the beautiful star you are" and Bob Marley-esque sentiments like "one love." There's even a whole verse where vocalist Sonny Sandoval just sings "la la la la la la la," etc. Seriously.

The music is meat-and-potatoes rock pioneered by bands such as Nickelback and ape P.O.D.'s "influences" shamelessly: "Condescending sounds like Rage Against The Machine's "Killing in the Name Of" if written by a Christian band. The band's one exploration, the reggae-tinged "I'll Be Ready," is derailed by Sandoval's uninspired lyrics and fake-Jamaican accent. Simply put, those kinds of things just don't work.

POD
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