As P.O.D. promised in the spring, their third major-label release will arrive on November 4th. The band has wrapped work on the twelve-track Payable on Death and the first single, "Will You," can now be heard on radio and on the band's Web site. P.O.D. has also re-enlisted Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails) to remix the single; Vrenna previously remixed P.O.D.'s "Set It Off" and "The Messenjah."

The band recorded the album, the follow-up to 2001's Satellite, in Los Angeles with its usual producer, Howard Benson. It will be the first since co-founding member Marcus Curiel departed and was replaced by Jason Truby, who had toured with the band prior to his full-time enlistment. "If it hadn't been Jason, it would have been nobody," frontman Sonny Sandoval said. "We definitely weren't going to try and audition people . . . or put up an ad."

The band has only one live date set up so far for 2003, an appearance at the Voodoo Music Experience in New Orleans. The event runs October 31st through November 2nd and also boasts 50 Cent, the White Stripes, Staind, Queens of the Stone Age, Ludacris, and the Donnas. P.O.D. are planning world tour for next year.

The Payable on Death track listing:

Wildfire
Will You
Change the World
Execute the Sounds
Find My Way
Revolution
The Reasons
Freedom Fighters
Waiting On Today
I and Identify
Asthma
Eternal

MARC W. DOLECH
(September 25, 2002)