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POD Headlining Tour with Insane Clown Posse

10/17/2015

P.O.D. CONTINUES HEADLINING TREK IN SUPPORT OF THE AWAKENING
JOINING INSANE CLOWN POSSE’S MISSING LINK TOUR IN OCTOBER

33-City North American Tour Begins September 8 in San Francisco

(Los Angeles, CA) August 26, 2015 – Holiday wishes will come early for P.O.D.’s devout following as the GRAMMY®-nominated SoCal hard-rockers plan to spend the fall on the road with more than 33 dates confirmed so far, including a run of dates with Insane Clown Posse! P.O.D. have tapped South Carolina quartet Islander for support after Labor Day when they return to the road beginning on September 8th at San Francisco’s DNA Lounge. For October they join Insane Clown Posse beginning October 3 for Rob Zombie’s Halloween at the Odeum Expo Center in Chicago. Tickets for the October run with ICP go onsale this Friday, August 28 – for more information visit www.payableondeath.com.

P.O.D. just released their ninth studio album, The Awakening (T-Boy/UMe), last Friday with multiple sold out shows, first single “This Goes Out To You” has gone Top 15 at Active Rock radio, with huge support from the rock community:
“I expect arena rock ready hit single ‘This Goes Out To You’ to be heard in the PA system of every NFL stadium this fall.” – Ghost Cult

“The Awakening” is full of solid individual tracks but a meaningfully in depth body of work when listened to form start to finish.” – Backseat Mafia

“Not a dud in the lot,…this is very strong, melodic and intelligent stuff.” – rock nyc

“The lyrical content and storytelling capabilities of the band are exceedingly fantastic.” (grade A) – the rock office

“[The Awakening] is sure to be considered of their best records to date and it will resonate with listeners now and for generations to come.” (5 out of 5 stars) – Cryptic Rock

“Not many bands pull off a really great concept album and any P.O.D. fan should be extremely happy that even nine albums in are still going strong with this bold, bulky and expressive album.” – Backseat Mafia

P.O.D. (Payable on Death) formed in San Diego, CA, in 1992, and has since charted their own course with worldwide sales exceeding 10 million, hugely successful international tours, and a series of chart-topping radio hits. Over the span of two decades they have released eight studio albums of original songs – including the triple-platinum Satellite – seen chart success with more than a dozen Rock radio hits, including “Southtown,” “Alive,” “Youth of the Nation,” and “Boom,” the Active Rock hit “Beautiful” and their No. 1 single, “Lost In Forever,” received three GRAMMY Award® nominations, and racked up four No. 1 music videos. The band has also contributed songs to numerous major motion picture soundtracks. P.O.D. is Sonny Sandoval (vocals), Marcos Curiel (guitar), Traa Daniels (bass) and Wuv Bernardo (drums). The members of P.O.D. are also active members of a tight-knit music community, collaborating on their own records as well as others’, including Katy Perry, H.R. (Bad Brains), Mike Muir (Suicidal Tendencies), Sen Dog (Cypress Hill), and more. P.O.D. are currently supporting the release of their ninth studio album, The Awakening (T-Boy/Ume).

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Sonny Sandoval – vocals
Marcos Curiel – guitar
Traa Daniels – bass
Wuv Bernardo – drums

Twenty years into their storied career, having amassed a devout global fan base and over 10 million records sold, San Diego’s hard rock messengers of faith, P.O.D. emerge renewed, with their magnum opus; the conceptual epic, The Awakening (T-Boy/UMe).

Produced by longtime collaborator Howard Benson (Kelly Clarkson, My Chemical Romance, Daughtry), and featuring special guests appearances from Maria Brink (In This Moment) and Lou Koller (Sick of it All), The Awakening releases August 21, and marks a new chapter for the southtown storytellers. Bassist Traa Daniels explains “The Awakening is definitely an evolution from where we’ve come from; it’s this amazing piece of art that we’ve been able to put together as four guys who are like brothers; this is really special.” Drummer Wuv Bernardo concurs: “I feel this is like a pivotal moment for P.O.D. It’s more than just `Man, we just went in the studio and did a record; the urgency of our band as far as how serious we are putting this kind of material in there, and the way that we did it blows my mind. I am proud of these guys; of us.”

The band’s humble beginnings date back to 1991, when Marcos Curiel and Wuv Bernardo got together to play San Diego keg parties, performing Metallica and Slayer covers. Dubbed P.O.D. (Payable on Death) in 1992, with the addition of Traa Daniels and Sonny Sandoval, the quartet quickly culled a loyal local fan base with the synergy of their aggressive rapcore sound and message of positivity. The band recorded several independent releases and performed for a growing legion of fans throughout Southern California, leading to their major label signing with Atlantic Records.

P.O.D.’s 1999 album, The Fundamental Elements of Southtown, spawned the hits "Southtown" and "Rock the Party (Off the Hook)," their first video to reach No. 1 on MTV's TRL – the record went on to become certified platinum. The band’s next release, Satellite, released 9/11, and featured the poignant single "Alive," which went on to become one of the top played MTV videos of the year and earned P.O.D. their first Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance. The breakthrough record Satellite went on to become RIAA-certified triple platinum.

In 2003, P.O.D. began to shift sonically from their signature rapcore sound to a more melodic metal sound with the release of their self-titled album and a few years later they followed with Testify in 2006 – including the single "Goodbye for Now," featuring guest vocals from Katy Perry and quickly topping the MTV playlist, becoming the band's unprecedented 4th number one video on Total Request Live. Continuing on their success they returned to the Billboard Top 10 with When Angels and Serpents Dance, bringing the music community together with special guests including Mike Muir from Suicidal Tendencies, Helmet guitarist Page Hamilton, and a Gospel Choir. Followed by Murdered Love with appearances by Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta, Cypress Hill's Sen Dog, and Psycho Realm's Sick Jacken.

In a cooperative effort with their fans, P.O.D. recorded and released the 2014 acoustic SoCal Sessions, featuring reworked versions of P.O.D. fan-favorite tracks, with a hugely successful PledgeMusic crowd funding campaign. The album also marks the return of producer Howard Benson, who had helmed the sessions for the band’s highest charting releases.

With their new release, The Awakening, P.O.D. reaches a new order of magnitude in the band’s creativity. Founding guitarist, Marcus Curiel notes, “Howard would tell us, ‘I work with a lot of bands that are influenced by you and they’re all asking ‘what’s P.O.D. doing?’ We had taken a couple-year hiatus, so we came back and really thought about becoming the band that we want to be again. We all got that fire again.”

Bassist Traa Daniels adds, “I think, creatively, when you’ve been a band as long as we have, you’re always trying to out-do yourself. Or you should be. You’ve gotta challenge yourself and think outside the box. We did that. This record is refreshing and definitely a step up that I think both our older fans, and people who are just hearing us for the first time, will both dig.”

On The Awakening, P.O.D. follows their tradition of bringing on simpatico musical collaborators with Brink and Koller—a fan/friend and an influence, respectively, contribute key parts. “Lou told us he’d be ‘honored,’” says Sonny, still seeming shocked. “We were like, ‘this is SO cool, brother!’”

Lyrically, The Awakening reveals a fully realized storyline in the grand tradition of classic concept albums, the likes of Pink Floyd’s The Wall or Queensryche’s Operation: Mindcrime, vocalist/lyricist Sonny Sandoval explains, “We are a band of faith; and once I started running with the lyrics a storyline came about. Every song, like the first single, “This Goes Out to You,” ultimately explores a character dealing with life, making mistakes, fighting; trying. It’s a record that delivers on multiple levels and musicality invites exploration and introspection. Sonny adds, “The Awakening is meant to be listened to in its entirety, but we live in an iTunes, singles-type world, and it works on that level, too.”

A video for the album’s lead single, “This Goes Out To You,” shot by Gavin Filipiak, furthers the cinematic approach of the record and the world it creates and inhabits. P.O.D. have debuted many of the new songs on tour, ahead of The Awakening’s release, and the band members have different favorites, including the volatile “Revolucion;” while Marcos cites the “rollercoaster of hard rock to beautiful clean pieces of music” in “Am I Awake” as a favorite. Sonically, each song benefitted from the band’s years of studio and stage experience.

Sonny explains: “Howard said `Let’s do it for the fans who have been there for 23 years, who are growing with you and love your band and get you and your bigger-picture ideas, but let’s also make it accessible for other listeners and fans.” Howard played a major role in making us excited to be a band again. We are doing our thing a little more out of the box than what people would expect from an ordinary P.O.D. album.”

Of their adventurous new release, Drummer, Wuv Bernardo concludes, “We used to study albums when we were young--we cared what guitars were used and who was credited; If people do get the whole picture, it becomes even more special to them, like it was for us. We had to ask ourselves `do we want to do a record this ambitious, and do we think we can?’ Yes we do, yes we can, and we aren’t looking back.’”

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