“Just to get out what we were feeling.” A vocal hook came to the singer: 'We are, we are… the youth of the nation.' “We were going, ‘What’s happening with this craziness? What’s wrong with the kids today, with the youth of the nation?’” says Sandoval.Īs they talked, guitarist Marcos Curiel began strumming sombre chords. They sat in the studio in San Diego, watching the news in disbelief. Yet here they were again, history repeating itself in the same senseless fashion. In the wake of that earlier tragedy, they had been invited to Colorado to play what Sandoval calls a “show of healing” organised by students who had survived the massacre. It couldn’t help but stir memories of the Columbine killings two years earlier. They were already deep into the writing process when the Santana High School shooting took place. had the wind in their sails when it came to the follow-up. The success of The Fundamental Elements Of Southtown meant P.O.D. So when the nu metal thing came along, we were just, like, ‘OK, cool.’” “Then we got lumped in with Rage Against The Machine. “We got lumped in with Body Count, because we’re from the hood and we’re a band of colour,” says the singer. P.O.D.’s first album, 1994’s Snuff The Punk, came out the same year as Korn’s debut, and Sandoval’s band were soon shoehorned into the burgeoning nu metal movement alongside them. For me, it was a case of, ‘I want to share this’, and music was the universal way to do it.” “But when I found my faith in Jesus, it was a real experience. “We never claimed to be a ‘Christian band’,” says Sandoval, who embraced religion at 18 after his mother was diagnosed with cancer. apart from the nu metal and rap-rock pack - a product of their Christian faith.
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