It has been a long four years since we last had an album from Shinedown. With their breakout album, Sound of Madnesswhich reached #8 on the Billboard’s top 200, along with six singles that went #1. This went along with almost three years of touring and close to 440 shows in that time. With each album, they have pushed the envelope of Rock music and in doing so, have increased their fan base to an all time high for a young rock band with only three albums to their credit. Shinedown is one of the few rock bands that can translate their music on an album to an even larger level on stage, as well as making sure their fans always come first and feeling like they are a part of this band as well. This explains the fans being know as the Shinedown Nation.
While most bands would coast on their huge success, singer Brent Smith has said, “We’ve always been a rock band and I didn’t want to lose sight of that. I told everyone the album had to do three things – It had to show sophistication in the songwriting, it had to show musical growth within the band, and I had to push myself to go places lyrically that I had never gone before.”
Amaryllis sees the guys teaming back up with super producer, Rob Cavallo, as well as the first-time bass player, Eric Bass and Zach Myers on guitar, who co-wrote several songs on an album, something they did off the smash hit, Diamond Eyes on The Expendables soundtrack. Music Tour Reviews was able to get their hands on an early copy to review; album official release is March 27th 2012.
01. Adrenaline
02. Bully
03. Amaryllis
04. Unity
05. Enemies
06. I’m Not Alright
07. Nowhere Kids
08. Miracle
09. I’ll Follow You
10. For My Sake
11. My Name (Wearing Me Out)
12. Through The Ghost
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