Sara Skinner is taking her first live turn with Bad Wolves on the Comatose 20 Years: Still Screaming Tour. Skillet announced the run with Escape the Fate and Bad Wolves in the lineup, turning an anniversary booking into a lineup-change story before the first date even hits.
Sept. 30 in Schenectady
The tour opens Sept. 30 in Schenectady, New York, and closes Nov. 10 with a sold-out show in Orlando. That gives the run a clear arc: a multi-city anniversary set built around Comatose, Skillet’s sixth studio album, while Bad Wolves use the same routing to introduce Skinner onstage for the first time.
John Cooper said Comatose changed the band’s career trajectory, defined its sound and message, and pushed Skillet into a much bigger level of notoriety. He also said the band wanted to dedicate a large portion of the show to songs from Comatose, including tracks it has played a thousand times and others it has never played.
Sara Skinner’s first run
Skinner called the first tour together with Skillet and Escape the Fate something she was ready for, and she said she could not wait to finally meet the Wolves. She also said she and John, AJ, Derek and the rest of the band are ready to bring a new era of BAD WOLVES to the stage alongside songs listeners already know.
That live debut carries extra weight because Bad Wolves became known for its cover of Zombies, while the group has since released four studio albums since forming in 2017, including Die About It in 2023. A first tour with a new singer is usually the cleanest way to reset a band’s public identity without cutting it off from the catalog that made it recognizable.
Comatose at 20 Years
Comatose sold millions of copies and was nominated for Best Rock or Rap Gospel Album at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards. Skillet formed in Tennessee in 1996, and the tour’s focus on that 2006 album gives the band a way to sell the anniversary as more than nostalgia: it is a live inventory of the record that changed its commercial ceiling.
Skillet is also lining up more movement around the campaign, with a new single titled Scream arriving just days after the tour announcement and more music expected later this year. For listeners deciding whether to buy in now, the practical signal is simple: the opening date in Schenectady is the first chance to hear this package with Skinner in place, and the sold-out finish in Orlando suggests demand is already baked in.
