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April 2024 Released collaborative single 'Be Somebody' with Citizen Soldier.
March 2024 Released collaborative single 'I Get Wicked' with Red.
2023 Trevor McNevan, Joel Bruyere, and Steve Augustine reunite and return to the band.
October 2023 Released collaborative single 'So Far Gone' with Art of Dying.
August 2023 Released collaborative single 'Down' with New Medicine.
July 2023 Announced return from hiatus and released a collaborative single 'War Of Change' with Adelitas Way.
July 4 2023 Skillet performed at the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan alongside Theory of a Deadman.
2021 Skillet headlined the Drive-in Theater Tour with support from Colton Dixon and Jordan Feliz.
2020 Skillet won two GMA Dove Awards for Rock/Contemporary Recorded Song of the Year with 'Legendary' and Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year with 'Victorious'
2019 Lacey Sturm and Jarob Bramlett temporarily fill in for Jen Ledger during her solo project performances.
2019 RIAA certified 'Monster' as 3× Platinum and 'Hero' as 2× Platinum. 'Monster' achieved over 3 billion global audio streams, while 'Hero' reached more than 1 billion streams.
July 12 2019 Oh, Sleeper released their fourth full-length album, 'Bloodied / Unbowed', marking their return after the hiatus.
June 27 2019 Premiered their fourth single 'The Island' on Altpress.com.
May 17 2019 Released the single 'Fissure' and announced the official release date and pre-orders for their upcoming album.
2018 Skillet won the GMA Dove Award for Rock/Contemporary Album of the Year with 'Unleashed Beyond'
2018 Tragic event of Lucas Starr's death. Band experiences another lineup change with Seth Webster joining on bass, Micah Kinard moving to rhythm guitar, and Shane Blay returning to lead guitar and clean vocals.
December 7 2018 Former bassist and founding member Lucas Starr passed away from colon cancer at the age of 34.
November 30 2018 Released the single 'Decimation & Burial', marking their return to Solid State Records.
September 2018 John Cooper and Seth Morrison created a side project called Fight the Fury, collaborating with John Panzer III and Jared Ward to release an EP titled 'Still Breathing' and the single 'My Demons'.
April 2018 Jen Ledger launched her solo music career by forming the band Ledger with Korey Cooper, releasing a self-titled EP and the single 'Not Dead Yet'.
2017 Skillet was nominated for Billboard Music Awards in multiple categories including Top Christian Artist, Top Christian Album for 'Unleashed', and Top Christian Song for 'Feel Invincible'
2017 Original core members Trevor McNevan, Joel Bruyere, and Steve Augustine temporarily leave the band.
2017 Announced they would be releasing an album called Bloodied/Unbowed.
September 15 2017 Released their second live album 'Untraveled Roads' as a CD and DVD combo pack, after which the band entered an indefinite hiatus.
2016 Significant band restructuring occurs: Micah Kinard and Shane Blay temporarily take on additional instrumental roles, with Kinard playing bass and Blay handling rhythm guitar.
September 2016 Skillet launched the Unleashed Tour, playing 18 club-sized venues primarily on the East Coast of the United States with Sick Puppies, Thousand Foot Krutch, and Devour the Day.
February 1 2016 Skillet recognized for recording the biggest digital single in Christian music history with their song 'Monster', which had over 2.6 million sales and was certified 2× Platinum by the RIAA.
2015 Skillet won the GMA Dove Award for Rock Song of the Year with 'Good to Be Alive'
September 2015 Joshua Sturm filled in for Joel Bruyere during live performances after Bruyere was hospitalized with a collapsed lung.
August 2015 Joshua Sturm temporarily fills in as bass guitarist for August and September.
2014 Skillet won GMA Dove Awards for Rock Album of the Year with 'Rise' and Rock Song of the Year with 'Not Gonna Die'
May 2014 Launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for the album OXYGEN:INHALE.
2013 Skillet won multiple awards including the Loudwire Music Awards for Rock Album of 2013 with 'Rise', and three HM Awards for Best Album, Best Band, and Best HM Cover
2013 Oh, Sleeper completed a full tour with the Van's Warped Tour and independently released The Titan EP.
2013 The band went on hiatus to allow clean vocalist and lead guitarist Shane Blay to join Wovenwar, a California-based metal band formed with members of As I Lay Dying.
October 15 2013 Released 'Made in Canada: The 1998-2010 Collection', a fourteen-track compilation featuring two new songs 'Searchlight' and 'Complicate You'.
August 13 2013 Skillet began the Carnival of Madness Tour with Shinedown, Papa Roach, and In This Moment.
July 11 2013 The band performed the title track of Rise on Conan.
June 25 2013 Skillet released their album Rise, which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200 and No. 1 on the Top Rock Chart and Christian Album charts, selling 60,000 copies in the US during the first week.
2012 Jen Ledger won the Drummies! Award for Rising Star and was nominated for Independent Drummer
2012 Andrew Welch becomes the lead guitarist and later adds backing vocals in 2014.
November 2012 Rhythm guitarist James Erwin announced his departure. Nate Grady switched from bass to rhythm guitar, and Johno Erickson was recruited as the new bassist.
2011 Awake won the 'Top Christian Album' Award at the Billboard Music Awards.
November 29 2011 Thousand Foot Krutch announced they would be leaving Tooth & Nail Records and would independently release their next album through crowdfunding.
September 6 2011 Released their third album, Children of Fire, digitally.
June 21 2011 John Cooper announced on Twitter that the band rehearsed new music for the first time and was preparing for a new album.
June 7 2011 Released a live album and DVD titled 'Live at the Masquerade'.
April 16 2011 Seth Morrison replaced Ben Kasica as the lead guitarist of Skillet.
February 23 2011 Lucas Starr announced his departure from the band, and was replaced by Nate Grady.
February 14 2011 Skillet officially announced that lead guitarist Ben Kasica would be leaving the band after 10 years.

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