Katy Perry used to be a backing singer for Christian nu-metal band P.O.D.

She featured in music videos and live performances

Before she was writing pop bangers, Katy Perry recorded and performed with P.O.D., that awful band you’d occasionally catch on Scuzz.

It wasn’t kept a secret, but it is only coming to everyone’s attention now thanks to a spot by the succinctly-named publication, Metal Sucks.

Perry contributed vocals to P.O.D.’s track ‘Goodbye For Now’, and can be seen below towards the end of the music video for it:

She also performed with them at shows for a while - here she is doing backing vox on MTV:

This was all happening while Perry was trying to carve out a solo career. She recorded a debut album for Columbia in 2004 only to be dropped by the label as it neared completion.

After a brief stint working at an A&R company she was picked up signed to Capitol Records however, and broke through with ‘I Kissed A Girl’, which went to number one in the US Billboard Hot 100.