![]() Produced by Shinedown’s Eric Bass (who also produced the band’s 2018 acclaimed album ATTENTION ATTENTION,) and recorded at Bass’ newly built Big Animal Studio in South Carolina, Planet Zero matches its immersive world-building and takedown of authoritarianism with a deliberately unvarnished sound, and the album is spliced with interludes featuring Cyren, an insidious and unsettling robot character that appears throughout the Planet Zero journey. Over the last two decades, Shinedown have cemented their status as one of the most vital and forward-thinking powerhouses in modern rock. Their most ambitious and masterfully realized work to date, Planet Zero is a high-concept, ultra-vivid, viscerally charged saga. A critical yet optimistic look at the fractures and frays of a society that has undergone many challenges in the last few years, the album is part social commentary and part in-depth exploration of the human psyche. Each pre-order includes an instant download of “Planet Zero.” The “Planet Zero” single rings the alarm with a cautionary warning that if we shut each other down, we risk losing empathy, respect for one another, and our ability to communicate and unify in a way that leads to actual progress and understanding.Ĭheck out the first look and interview with front man Brent Smith and bassist and producer Eric Bass on . Pre-order Planet Zero HERE. On Planet Zero, Shinedown is serving up an incisive look at some of society’s most critical issues, including the increasingly toxic division among those of differing ideologies, the need for honesty in our public discourse, and the corrosive effects of social media and cancel culture on mental health and humanity. Make no mistake, there is a message in the visual, a warning of what is to come, if society does not wake up, and demand the truth be told. We did not want a traditional music video feel – we wanted avant-garde, thought-provoking and surreal. We chose to work with visionary director Charles De Meyer. “We wanted the first visual of ‘Planet Zero’ to be unlike anything we have done previously. character named Cyren from the album’s interludes who we hear at the end of the music video) that warns of the dangerous dehumanizing consequences of cancel culture run rampant. The explosive single, the title track from the band’s seventh studio album out April 22 on Atlantic Records, is Shinedown’s 17th #1 and sixth consecutive chart-topper, breaking a new record for the most #1s in the 40-year history of the chart.ĭirected by Charles De Meyer, the video brings to life a glimpse of a dystopian future (complete with a menacing A.I. The video arrives as “Planet Zero” hits #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart this week. To read more on opening band Nothing More, click here.Multi-platinum, record-breaking band Shinedown have released the thought-provoking and cinematic music video for lead single “Planet Zero” – PRESS HERE to watch. “Once you get the machine going, it’s hard to stop it.” “Touring can be tough but we all enjoy being on the road,” he says. Once 2016 arrives, the band will be going to the United Kingdom. Each album has become a progression in our career.”Īfter the current tour is over in late November, Smith and Myers are going to do acoustic shows through the end of the year. “We write from the heart and what is happening to us at the time in our lives. “We don’t want to make the same record over and over,” he says. Over the course of its career, the members of the band have become better musicians and songwriters, he says. Shinedown began in 2001 and has managed to outlast many of its contemporaries in music. “This is the reason we take our time in creating something that will last.” ![]() “We want our fans to be able to go on a musical journey with the album,” he says. Kerch says the band - which includes Brent Smith, Eric Bass and Zach Myers - worked hard at creating music that would fill the album from front to back. ![]() ![]() “We wrote 30 songs for the album and then cut it to 15,” he says.
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