Payable on Death

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Payable on Death
Payable on Death cover
Studio album by P.O.D.
Released November 4, 2003
Recorded May - July 2003 at Bay 7, Valley Village, California and Sparky Dark, Calabasas, California
Genre Nu-metal/Emocore/Reggae
Length 73:52
Label Atlantic Records
Producer(s) Howard Benson
P.O.D. chronology
Satellite
(2001)		 Payable on Death
(2003)		 The Warriors EP, Volume 2
(2005)


Payable On Death is the fifth studio album, and third major label release by Californian rap metal quartet P.O.D.. This is also the first album to include Jason Truby. The album is the group's eponymous effort. The album was released on November 4th, 2003 through Atlantic. The release of Payable On Death saw the band head in a more traditional hard rock / metal sound, and away from their well-known rap metal sound. It is their lowest-selling major-label album to date, selling a little under 500,000 copies as of January 2006 according to Soundscan. However, it has shipped over 500,000 copies in the U.S., therefore it was certified gold by the RIAA. It has sold over 1,000,000 copies worldwide. This is partly due to a shakeup at Atlantic Records, leaving P.O.D. with no label support, meaning the only promotion the album gets is by word of mouth, and online promotion from fans of the band. The album debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard Top 200 chart on the strength of the first single and music video for "Will You." Soon after, the internal problems at Atlantic Records led to the album being virtually given up on. The band filmed a video for the next single, "Change the World" but it was never shipped to MTV.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Wildfire" – 3:15
  2. "Will You" – 3:47
  3. "Change The World" – 3:03
  4. "Execute The Sounds" – 3:01
  5. "Find My Way" – 3:09
  6. "Revolution" – 3:25 (featuring Phil Keaggy)
  7. "The Reasons" – 3:44
  8. "Freedom Fighters" – 4:12
  9. "Waiting On Today" – 3:05
  10. "I And Identify" – 3:15
  11. "Asthma" – 4:01
  12. "Eternal" – 6:20 (featuring Phil Keaggy)
  13. "Sleeping Awake" – 3:22 (bonus track on some European releases)
  14. "Space (Phatheads Remix)" (bonus track on some Australasian & Japanese releases)

[edit] Album Notes

  • Bonus track Sleeping Awake was featured in the movie soundtrack for The Matrix: Reloaded.
  • Bonus content on some albums allowed the download of the track Space from a hidden website.
  • The tracks Execute The Sounds and Find My Way were played on some Christian websites.

[edit] Singles

  • "Will You"
  • "Change The World"

[edit] Album cover

The album cover was designed and painted by Latino artist Daniel Martin Diaz. While Daniel claims he is a devout Catholic, some felt the cover was too negatively symbolic and many Christian music stores refused to carry the album. Due to design issues, Daniel was asked to do the interior layout as well as the cover, a task he completed in less than a week. While the imagery on the interior is very grotesque, all of the pictures are taken from other paintings he has done, which can be viewed on his website (http://www.danielmartindiaz.com/). When viewed in the original paintings, the symbolic meanings can be observed. Most of the paintings contain Catholic imagery, combined with a fair amount of mysticism.

[edit] External links

Current members: Jason Truby · Wuv Bernardo · Traa Daniels · Sonny Sandoval
Former members: Marcos Curiel · Gabe Portillo
Discography
Albums: Snuff The Punk · Brown · Payable on Death Live · The Fundamental Elements of Southtown · Satellite · Payable on Death · Testify · Greatest Hits: The Atlantic Years
EPs: The Warriors EP · Limited Edition Bonus EP · The Warriors EP, Volume 2
Singles: Rock the Party (Off the Hook) · Southtown · School of Hard Knocks · Alive · Youth of the Nation · Boom · Satellite · Sleeping Awake · Will You · Change The World · Goodbye For Now · Lights Out · Going In Blind
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