You know how when you are starving, and somebody gives you something to eat, and it's the best thing you've ever eaten?
That's how Skillet was to me. I took a temporary job in a hot, sweaty factory for a couple months. All the guys were stereotypical rednecks. Lifted trucks, chew spit all over the floor, and country music blaring all day. I can't stand country music at all. It was a miserable place to work.
One day, something happened to their internet country-radio station (yay!), and they changed it to some rock station. Skillet "Awake and Alive" came on. I had never heard it before. I couldn't tell if I loved it so much because I was so starving for something other than country, or it was actually that good.
Well, years later, I still like it, so yeah. That's my "introduction to Skillet" story, lol.