With guitarist Marcos Curiel returning to the fold after a 4 year absence, P.O.D are back to reclaim their place atop the rock scene with the line-up that took them to multiple platinum successes with 1999’s The Fundamental Elements of Southtown and 2001’s triple-platinum Satellite, which featured the hit singles “Youth of a Nation”, “Alive” and “Boom”.

The quartet’s renewed vigor is evident throughout When Angels and Serpents Dance, from the searing guitar line that kicks off the in your face hard rocker “Addicted” to the monumental, “End Of The World” complete with gospel choir, to the album’s most ferocious track, the savage “Like Old Times”, the first song written by the reunited incarnation of the quartet. The band also display a softer side on the bluesy hard rock feel at the start of “Rain Everyday”, a song with clever vignettes in the bridges, the almost poppy chorus in the infectious “Shine With Me”, and on the poignant, politically charged ballad “Tell Me Why,” in which Sonny asks in the chorus, “Why must we fight, why must we kill in the name of what we think is right?”

Produced by Jay Baumgardner, the album features a number of guest appearances - legendary punk rock singer, Mike Muir of Suicidal Tendencies guests on the track “Kaliforn-Eye-A”, The Marley Sisters, who lend their vocal prowess to what Sonny calls “Our reggae track (I’ll Be Ready),” and Helmet’s Page Hamilton on “God Forbid,” which Sonny calls “probably our heaviest song.”