Skillet (band) 2000, Trey McClurkin parted ways with Skillet, and Lori Peters filled the drummer's position. The band released their first worship album, and fourth album overall, "Ardent Worship" in late 2000. The band kept much of their sound from "Invincible" on their next album "Alien Youth". With little time between touring and recording, Skillet released "Alien Youth" on August 28, 2001, which was the first album that John Cooper took on production duties. Before the release of "Alien Youth", Haaland left the band, and Ben Kasica took over on guitar. In 2003, "Collide", the band's sixth studio album, was released by
An Item from the Late News But Wafer's quiet quest on the town's outskirts will be doomed--by the town's greed and hypocrisy and violence, by Gabby's own self-involved apathy: Wafer is terrorized by a local macho-thug; his fatherly affection for a teenage girl (the thug's rape victim) is used against him. And when Wafer happens to find a precious stone on one of his wanderings, the town will stop at nothing to learn the location of this possible new gem-lode. . . with a predictably fatal outcome. An Item from the Late News An Item from the Late News (1982) is a novel by Australian author