In 2001, the guitarist Kevin Halandt left the band, and Ben Cassica took his place. At the beginning of 2003, in a new line-up, the group began work on a new album. The recording took place at Ardent Studios in Memphis . The producer was Paul Ebersold, who previously worked with the band on recording their second album, Hey You, I Love Your Soul . The first 3 songs, one of which did not end up in the final release, were recorded by Skillet in January 2003. Then the team took a break: the work on the recording continued only in April and lasted until June ^[8] . The album was named Collide . Later John Cooper explained that the name of the album implies a clash of fear and faith ^[3] .

At that time, the band had a contract with Ardent Records and Lava Records. Initially, Skillet wanted to release Collide in February 2004 on both labels, but this did not happen because Ardent decided to release the album in November 2003, and Lava Records postponed the release until May 2004. Due to the fact that the band had extra time before the release. the disc on Lava Records, they decided to record a new song, “Open Wounds”, which eventually got to the release from Lava Records ^[9] . Also, the edition from Lava Records differed slightly modified cover.

The album debuted at the 179th line on the Billboard 200 and 5th line in the Top Heatseekers . The first single was the song “Savior” ^[10] . A video clip was shot on it. In the video, the band is shown playing a song in the house and in the park at night. The plot of the video tells the story of two boys who are subjected to ill-treatment by their father and decide to run away from him. They make their way through the park where Skillet plays. Ends video so that children save the mother. According to John, the essence of the clip was to show, in the role of savior, not Christ , but a simple person who can become a savior for someone in a certain situation ^[11] . However, speaking of the meaning of the song, he explained: “The song was that I know that I cannot run away from God, I cannot do anything without him ... He lives inside of me, speaks to me, and I cannot escape anything Do not hide from it. He is my strength, mine ... He is just my everything ^[12] . "

Musically, this album differs from previous ones with heavier music; elements of nu-metal, which was very popular at the time of its recording, appeared ^[1] . The inspiration for the change of sound was served by such bands as POD and Linkin Park ^{[9] [13]} . Speaking of the difference between Collide and the band’s other work, Ben said: ing:0 .5em;font-size:80%">244.0244 km

	+89.0 +141.1	Budennovsk
		to Georgievsk
	+125.0	Chkalovsky
	+124.0	New life
	+108.4	Bolshevik Spark
	+100.0	Sotnikovskoe
	+90.0	Spasskoye
	+67.8	Thankful
	+58.7	59 km
	+54.1	Wet buffalo
	+43.0	Shishkino
	+32.7	Horned beam
	+23.0	Sour Beam
	+11.0	Steep Sands

		R. Chla
	?	Ula
		To Stavropol-Rostov
	?	Stavropol-Tuapse
		R. Mamaika German bridge
		A154
	?	Lakeside
		A154
	?	Dark wood
	?	Sengileevskaya
	?	Nikolaev
	?	Convinced
		R. Kuban
		On Cool
	1651.6	Armavir-Rostov
		At Tuapse Pass.
		To Tikhoretskaya

		Marvelous • Armavir
	152.9	Stavropol-Rostov
	148.6	o.p. 149 km
		R. Chla
	147.0	o.p. 147 km
	146.0	o.p. 146 km
	145.0	o.p. 145 km
	144.0	o.p. 144 km
	140.3	o.p. 141 km

	+56.0	Red Guard
		R. Bitter Beam
		R. Kalalah
	+36.0	Private
		Stavropol region Rostov region
	+26.0	Art. Summer
	00.0 444.6	Sandstone

The passenger station of Stavropol-2 station was built in 1916 by Armavir-Tuapse railway joint - stock company with the money of the Stavropol merchants and peasants, it was truly a national railway, which the residents of Stavropol affectionately nicknamed Tuapse. The main task of the constructed road was to export grain from the central regions of the province, as well as to eliminate the railway deadlock formed in connection with the bypass of the Vladikavkaz railway of the Caucasus Gate , and later return this status in connection with the continuation of the road from Elista to Astrakhan to Tsaritsyna , with the implementation of this plan, all cargo from Siberia via Transib and in transit through Stavropol got to the ports of the Black Sea. With the outbreak of the Civil War, these plans were not destined to come true, in 1918 the Armavir-Tuapse Railway, along with all the infrastructure, was nationalized, and due to soil erosion in landslide sections, all trains on the Armavir-Stavropol section stopped.

The station was designed by Verblyuner. According to the established custom, the terminal station and the initial station were built according to one project, therefore the Stavropol station is an exact copy of the station in Tuapse .

The railway ran along the southern outskirts of the city along the modern Obyezdnaya street. And in the area of ​​Staromarvskoe highway there was an access road to the railway station of Vladikavkaz. Within the city, several engineering structures were built:

• Stavropol-Tuapse railway station (2).
• German bridge (6).

Now the station has been rebuilt into a residential building. Driveways dismantled. ^[one]