P.O.D.
Murdered Love

THE REVIEW

P.O.D. (an acronym for Payable On Death) are the classic example of a band remembered only for a single. The song in question is "Youth of the Nation", whose video was played to exhaustion on music networks like MTV (when it still played music) and AllMusic. A handful of hit singles (in addition to the already mentioned "Youth of the Nation", there were also "Alive", "Boom" and "Sleeping Awake") followed by a series of mediocre albums lacking real killer tracks, leading to a decline in popularity.

If the previous album "When Angels and Serpents Dance" turned out to be yet another flop, despite the completion of the musical path undertaken by Sonny Sandoval's band, the P.O.D. of "Murdered Love" instead return to being the ones we listened to on albums like "The Fundamental Elements of Southtown" and "Satellite", but played a bit worse. A bit like when you copy the homework of the class genius but throw in some errors here and there, to 'personalize' your work.

A glaring example is the opening track "Eyes", featuring none other than Jamey Jasta of Hatebreed, but in his light version, the one from his solo record. A track with great potential not fully utilized, much like most of the album. The brightest notes of "Murdered Love" come from the single "Lost in Forever", the beautiful ballad "Beautiful" and the spectacular featuring with Cypress Hill in "West Coast Rock Steady".

But the general feeling is that of facing a band that, when asked "Are they alive or dead?" reacts with a timid raised hand, not with an energetic response like "Hell yeah, we're here!"
But after all, we know: when you fall into oblivion it's hard to resurface.