![]() The result is an ultravivid and utterly absorbing futuristic saga in the form of 13 viscerally charged rock songs, spliced with interludes featuring an insidious character called Cyren. High-concept and hard-hitting, 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 division among those of differing ideologies. Their seventh studio album, Planet Zero marks Shinedown’s most ambitious and masterfully realized work to date. As their most galvanizing body of work yet, Planet Zero firmly places Shinedown in the pantheon of artists capable of moving the culture forward on the strength of their singular vision, uncompromising honesty, and fierce commitment to constant evolution. Expanding on the unbridled imagination behind their groundbreaking 2018 album ATTENTION ATTENTION and its accompanying feature film, vocalist Brent Smith, guitarist Zach Myers, bassist/producer Eric Bass, and drummer Barry Kerch now elevate their artistry to unprecedented heights on their new full-length effort Planet Zero. In a rare feat for an artist of any genre, the record-breaking band have achieved astronomical success (including 10 million albums sold worldwide, 14 platinum and gold singles, over 4.5 billion global streams to date, and recently being named #1 on Billboard’s Greatest Of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists Chart) while fully embodying the kind of creative dynamism that defies expectation and transcends boundaries. Check out Shinedown.Over the last two decades, Shinedown have cemented their status as one of the most vital and forward-thinking powerhouses in modern rock. I’ll end here, since this is getting fairly long, but “Unity” is a great song when you’re feeling down. The speaker asks for those downtrodden ones to let him pull them through- to bring people together.Īgain, the lyrics are about uniting people, and showing even the lonely and downtrodden that they belong. So, while the vocals and music are full hard rock now, the message is still touching. Just like last week with our Nothing More song, Smith’s vocals get more of that hard rock sound, and the melody does as well. So have you ever been caught in a sea of despair? It’s good to be afraid, sometimes, as they say in Doctor Who: Fear is a super power. We need, in these times, to be united.There is a lot of fear in the world-about ISIS, or Trump, or the economy, or American healthcare. It starts slow, and almost kind of comforting, before speeding up and turning into a rock ballad. Written by Dave Bassett and band members Brent Smith and Eric Bass, the song is exactly what you would imagine: a call for unity. Today’s musical post is the Shinedown song “ Unity,” off their 2012 album Amaryllis. ![]() I’m not a musical person, so I’ll be sticking mostly to the meaning in the lyrics. ![]() ![]() On Mondays, I will be posting and analyzing songs.
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