Myers offered a few thoughts about the album.įor one thing, it stands as the most topical album in the career of Shinedown, which formed in Jacksonville, FL in 2001 and has become one of mainstream rock’s most popular bands, thanks to such hit-filled albums as “Us and Them” (2005), “The Sound of Madness” (2008) and “Attention Attention,” which continued Shinedown’s unbroken string of platinum or gold-certified albums. Those two EPs each contained 10 largely acoustic songs, five of which were originals written by Smith and Myers and five covers.Īnd the band as a whole (which also features Eric Bass on - what else? - bass and Barry Kerch on drums), of course, finished their seventh studio album, “Planet Zero,” which was released last April. The duo debuted in 2014 with “Acoustic Sessions,” which featured a set of acoustic versions of hit songs by other artists.
In addition to getting the “Attention Attention” film finished, singer Brent Smith and Myers reactivated their acoustic-oriented duo Smith & Myers, releasing a pair of acoustic-oriented EPs (“Smith & Myers Vol.1” and “Vol. I think you can pull the curtain back a little bit, but we don’t want to let everybody know exactly how the sausage was made.” If you have a song that you really love or you really enjoy, and you equate it to a breakup or something that happened in your life and I go ‘This is a song about a ham sandwich,’ I don’t like those things. “We’re not really a band that likes to tell people necessarily what our songs are about because I think that ruins it for people. “I think we did our best to kind of visualize, but we’re not giving too much away,” the guitarist elaborated. It starts in the darkest place ever and in the end, it ends on a song like ‘Brilliant,’ which is so overpowering and upbeat. But it tells a story of kind of the start of this, where you start at kind of the end.
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It’s not really, it’s not a movie per se. And those elements are in the movie, those viadeos. You can especially see it in the ‘Monster’ video. You can kind of see it in the ‘Devil’ video. “And we got (director) Bill Yukich to do it, and Bill’s kind of a weirder, darker guy. “As far as the movie goes, we did our best to visualize what we thought it was,” Myers said. 1 mainstream rock singles – “Monster,” “Get Up,” “Devil” and “Attention Attention.” The film, meanwhile, was intended to further elaborate on the album’s themes of overcoming negativity and adversity. In September 2021, the band released a film, “Attention Attention,” which collects the videos for all 12 songs from Shinedown’s 2018 album of the same name. Some of the time was spent making the band’s latest studio album, “Planet Zero” (more on that later), but there were other activities as well. But fans have seen that Shinedown put the unexpected down time to good use. Now three years later, plans for the acoustic tour are on indefinite hold. The anticipated tour was going to be a rare opportunity for fans to see the hit-making group play a selection of rarely performed album cuts from across their career. ATTENTION ATTENTION ushers in Shinedown's biggest and boldest chapter yet, as they once again uproot convention and deliver a cinematic and poignant body of work.Spring 2020 saw Shinedown’s unplugged “Deep Dive” tour go up in smoke when the pandemic hit. Given the deeply personal nature of the record, Shinedown went in-house for production for the time ever, enlisting bassist Eric Bass to produce and mix the album in its entirety. The 14-track album, Shinedown's most raw and personal to date, is a mental, emotional and physical journey that follows an individual from life's lowest lows to the highest highs as anxieties dissipate and demons disappear. Goodbye & Good Riddance: 5th Anniversary
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