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Skillet ready to rock Colorado Springs with show at World Arena

Skillet doesn’t appear to be mellowing with age.

During a 15-year recording career that includes 11 studio albums, the Christian crossover band has firmly established its stylistic credentials within the metal/alternative rock universe.

Those credentials will be on full display Sunday at The Broadmoor World Arena for the Rock Resurrection Tour with Theory of a Dead Man and special guest Saint Asonia.

In 2022, Skillet released the decidedly hard-hitting album “Dominion.” Songs such as “Beyond Incredible,” “Surviving The Game” and the album’s title track mix thick guitars, aggressive beats and grimy industrial-ish tones sweetened with big melodic choruses.

“I always laugh and tell people that as an artist I seem to have a really hard time knowing when something sounds different than the last record,” singer/guitarist John Cooper observed in a recent phone interview. “But my feeling is that this record is, it’s heavier. … Some of that might be because of the Churko influence. That’s kind of what they do, isn’t it?”

The Churkos would be Kevin Churko, who produced and contributed to the songwriting on “Dominion,” and his brother, Kane Churko, who was also involved in the songwriting and production of the album.

“There’s something about Kevin’s production that’s just very big on the low end. It’s very, very punchy,” Cooper said of his producer, who has worked with Ozzy Osbourne, Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed, among others.

“He’s just a really, really great producer, and I’m a huge fan. So I was like, ‘Kevin, do what you do. We want people to hear this music and feel like they’re coming out of the gate, coming out of the gate from pandemic and depression and sadness and despair, and they are coming out of the gates ready to take the world on. Whatever the world brings, they’re going to crush it. That’s what I want people to feel when they hear this music.’ And he’s like, ‘Yup, I’m on it.’”

Skillet is taking that energy, spirit — and volume — on the road all fall.

“We’ll play a couple of new songs and then, of course, you’ve got to play the songs that you know people are going to be really mad if you don’t play,” Cooper said.

What: Skillet & Theory of a Deadman with Saint Asonia

When: 7 p.m. Sunday

Where: The Broadmoor World Arena, 3185 Venetucci Blvd.

Price: $42 and up; worldarena.com

Skillet is a Christian crossover band.

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