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Brent Smith on New Shinedown LP: ‘Nobody Writes Records Like These Anymore’

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Author Erica Banas // Rock Music Reporter
January 27th, 2022 11:11 AM

Brent Smith talked in detail about Shinedown’s new album Planet Zero, a unique concept album that serves as a commentary on the current state of the world and what it could become.

Speaking to Loudwire Nights, Smith acknowledged the album’s subject matter saying, “The record is not a complete political record, thought-provoking record in regards to, ‘This is what we think and you should think that way.’ It’s the complete opposite of that. What it is, it’s historical. Nobody writes records like these anymore.”

Smith also added, “It’s heavy stuff. There’s a lot of psychology to it… This band’s been writing about mental health for 20 years. There’s a lot of triumph on this record, though, too — an immense amount of triumph. But there’s also elements here where some people will say that it’s a big more aggressive than usual, but it’s necessary, because the only way to get the point across in some of this material, we have to be aggressive. This was a record that was written for the people, by the people.”

As previously reported, Planet Zero centers around a robot character named Cyren. Shinedown bassist/producer Eric Bass said in a statement, “Cyren’s the robot welcoming you to Planet Zero, which could potentially be the future we all live in: a place with zero sense, zero accountability, zero tolerance for any opinion different from what you hear on Twitter or TV.”

A press release on the album noted, “‘Planet Zero’ offers an incisive look at a strange and terrifying moment in history and its implications for the future of humankind, building a dystopian framework around its exploration of the issues at hand: the corrosive effects of social media, cancel culture and its many hypocrisies, the increasingly toxic divisions among those of differing ideologies. The result is an ultra-vivid and utterly absorbing futuristic saga in the form of 13 viscerally charged rock songs, spliced with interludes featuring an insidious character called Cyren.”

Planet Zero comes out on April 22 and is available for pre-save on streaming platforms here, while exclusive formats and merch bundles are available for pre-order at Store.Shinedown.com.

 


Shinedown: 16 Tracks That Hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs Chart

  • “Save Me”

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    Peaked at number one the week of November 19, 2005

  • “Devil”

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    Peaked at number one the week of June 2, 2018.

  • “How Did You Love”

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    Peaked at number one the week of March 4, 2017.

  • “Devour”

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    Peaked at number one the week of August 23, 2008.

  • “Bully”

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    Peaked at number one the week of February 25, 2012.

  • “Monsters”

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    Peaked at number one the week of June 29, 2019.

  • “State of My Head”

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    Peaked at number one the week of February 6, 2016.

  • “Second Chance”

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    Peaked at number one the week of December 27, 2008.

  • “Get Up”

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    Peaked at number one the week of December 1, 2018.

  • “Cut the Cord”

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    Peaked at number one the week of August 8, 2015.

  • “Sound of Madness”

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    Peaked at number one the week of June 20, 2009.

  • “Attention Attention”

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    Peaked at number one the week of February 1, 2020.

  • “The Crow & the Butterfly”

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    Peaked at number one the week of July 31, 2010.

  • “Unity”

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    Peaked at number one the week of August 4, 2012.

  • “Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)”

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    Peaked at number one the week of March 12, 2011.

  • “Atlas Falls”

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    Peaked at number one the week of August 22, 2020.

Erica Banas is a rock/classic rock news blogger who's well-versed in etiquette and extraordinarily nice. #TransRightsAreHumanRights
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