Hero” is the first single of the 2009 album Awake by the American Christian rock band Skillet and is the first track on the album. The music video for “Hero” was directed by the Erwin Brothers. Coming out shortly after the “Monster” video, which gold skillet shot by the Erwins at roughly the same time, “Hero” is the album’s second music video. Although the site was for fan club members only, pictures of the video shoot could’ve be viewed on panheads.

The song was nominated for both “Rock Recorded Song of the Year” and “Short Form Video of the Year” at the 41st GMA Dove Awards. SKILLET SLAMS INTO 2010 WITH NO. 4 MAINSTREAM RADIO HIT, SHINEDOWN TOUR, MORE WWE AND MASSIVE SALES”. Become a Fanclub Member – skillet. Archived from the original on April 15, 2012. Scroll through the page-list below until year 2021 to obtain certification.

Awake is the seventh studio album by American Christian rock band Skillet. It is the follow-up to their Grammy-nominated album Comatose. Skillet began recording for the album around October 2008. The band recorded at Bay7 Studios in Los Angeles, California, with Howard Benson as the band’s producer. According to band members, the album is similar to their 2006 release Comatose, featuring strings and guitars with a harder rock sound than their previous album. John Cooper said that it “sounds like Skillet with some new things people may not expect.

The band finished the first leg of their Awake and Alive Tour in support of Awake, which opened on September 24, 2009 in Fort Wayne, Indiana and encompassing 52 cities between September and December. INO Records, and debuted at No. Billboard 200 chart, making it the band’s most successful entry on the chart. In 2009, Awake tied Underoath’s Define the Great Line, and Casting Crowns’s The Altar and the Door for the highest charting Christian rock album on the Billboard 200, debuting at No. The song “Awake and Alive” also charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at No. It was Skillet’s first song to chart on the Hot 100. The song was released to Christian CHR and rock radio in February 2010.