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n January 2022, Skillet released their 11th studio album, ‘Dominion’, for the world to hear.
I As with all Skillet releases, the songs contained within this selection of material are wrapped
in inspiring and uplifting messages; no matter what struggles we go through in life, it is tem-
porary and never permanent. ‘Dominion’ has been quoted as being a “Celebration of freedom,
a liberation from fear to be who we want to be, say what we want to say, believe what we want
to believe.” With that in mind, when the band made their long-awaited return to England, we
met up with frontman John Cooper and had a good old chat about freedom of speech, cancel
culture, and how the pandemic has changed him.

ithin the ‘Dominion’ album’s liner
Wnotes there is a line which reads,
‘This album is dedicated to freedom - to all
Of Freedom it.’ Freedom is something that can be de-
who protect it, fight for it, bleed or have bled
for it, and to all who love it enough to die for

fined in many different ways; we ask John
what it looks like to him.
“Oh wow. That’s a big question!” John
laughs. “I feel there’s so many ways you can
go with it, but I would probably say freedom
to pursue what is virtuous is probably what
it means to me. To pursue what leads to life
and what is good for the family. Those are
probably the things that most strike me. Ab-
solute freedom, of course, is anarchy, right?
So, we don’t want anarchy!”
Talking about the album dedication,
John says that it was a statement about

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