Days in advance of the Might possibly three release of P.O.D.’s hottest studio album, Veritas, frontman Sonny Sandoval joined Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (April 25) to discover why he’s so enthusiastic for the band’s new new music.

“I look at we have just commonly sort of incorporated each and every point,” Sandoval discussed about the distinctive sorts and influences that usually make their way on to a P.O.D. album.

With Veritas, although, that wasn’t the situation.

“This time, it was a music-by-song basis and I visualize by the time we purchased to the cease and pretty substantially seasoned the album achieved, [we realized] it can be just substantially much more straight by way of assortment of rocking and grooving. And I signify, we’re all suitable with that.”

Sandoval is so all suitable with the sound that he is set some superior expectations for Veritas.

“It was an intriguing method, but this could be 1 specific of the pretty very best albums we have at any time ready.”

What Sonny Sandoval Thinks About P.O.D. Remaining Labeled ‘Christian’

The heaviness of Veritas will probable obtain longtime admirers back once more to the early instances of P.O.D., a extended time before they have been at any time labeled nu-metal. Early on, nonetheless, it wasn’t uncommon to listen to the band described as Christian, some point Sandoval applied some time reflecting on with Chuck.

“I am not receiving rid of slumber more than it,” Sandoval stated. “We’ve just been about faith and for the purpose that we arrive from the hardcore scene, everybody’s about 1 point, so becoming about my faith was no distinct than any other band. If I was in a reggae band or a area band or an R&B band, no 1 would at any time say, ‘Oh hey, which is a Christian group.’ No 1 specific would ever say that, but due to the reality we are in steel, it is like, ‘Oh, which is that Christian group.’”

Sandoval admitted that the Christian label hardly ever constructed P.O.D. substantially much more common. In actuality, he shared it virtually definitely harm them in a way.

“Possibly not so substantially now,” he stated, “but 30 numerous years in the previous, it harm you to say that due to the reality no a single seriously understands. So we generally shied away from that.”

He also required to make positive each and every individual was clear that P.O.D. in no way sought to marketplace their religion or something at all like that.

“[People like to think] we obtained all sorts of appreciate from the Christian planet or whichever. We did not. We received especially the identical point: ‘Oh, they are faux Christians. They are not actual Christians.’ We got a lot much more slack from the Christian planet than from the secular planet. We’ve generally been in amongst two worlds, so it was in no way seriously fair.”

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But Sandoval explained they by no means nervous far also significantly about it.

“We just realized when we strike that phase, we have to be ten instances superior than the band we’re playing with for the purpose that we want to be plain. We are not probably to avoid becoming who we are. If a further individual says, ‘Hey, I really feel all these fellas are Christian,’ they are probably to verify out us and hear us and be like, ‘Whatever dude, individuals guys rock.’”

What Else Did P.O.D.’s Sonny Sandoval Examine on Loudwire Evenings?

• How the recording system for Veritas was several than any other album the band constructed just ahead of — and how COVID played a sizeable position in that
• Why he is excited to tour with Terrible Wolves, Norma Jean and Blind Channel
• Why he likes composing music just as significantly as carrying out dwell

Hear to the Complete Interview in the Podcast Participant Underneath

Sonny Sandoval joined Loudwire Evenings on Thursday, April 25 the clearly show replays on the internet listed right here, and you can tune in reside every person weeknight at 7PM ET or on the Loudwire app you can also see if the show is obtainable on your nearby radio station and hear to interviews on-demand.