Recorded at his newly built Big Animal Studio in South Carolina, Planet Zero matches its immersive world-building and potent social commentary with a deliberately unvarnished sound. “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,” explains Bass, who produced both Planet Zero and ATTENTION ATTENTION. 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. Meanwhile, the ATTENTION ATTENTION feature film found Shinedown joining forces with director Bill Yukich (Beyoncé, Metallica) and dreaming up a riveting visual counterpart to the album’s narrative, illuminating yet another dimension of their limitless creativity. As proof of its powerful resonance for listeners around the world, ATTENTION ATTENTION debuted in the Top 5 on the Billboard 200, simultaneously hit #1 on Billboard's Alternative, Top Rock and Hard Rock Albums Charts, garnered five iHeart Radio Music Award nominations, and generated four #1 hits (including “GET UP,” a fan favorite that smashed the record for most Rock Airplay Top 10s in radio history). A major creative breakthrough for the band, ATTENTION ATTENTION marked the start of Shinedown’s boldest chapter yet, presenting an intensely personal story-album that confronts such complex matters as mental health, addiction, and the indomitable nature of the human spirit. Through the years, they’ve accomplished such milestones as shattering the record for the most #1s ever in the 40-year history of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs Chart (and landing each of their 27 consecutive singles on the Top 5 of that very same chart), earning platinum or gold certification for all their albums, selling out countless headlining arena tours, and even launching a premium apparel line called SD Limited-all while emerging as an essential cultural force, as evidenced by their major media acclaim and participation in the prestigious 92Y Talks series. 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.įormed in Florida in 2001, Shinedown first unveiled their combustible yet artfully crafted sound and penetrating lyrics on their platinum-certified 2003 debut Leave A Whisper (their first release for Atlantic Records, the band’s label home to this day).
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.
Over the last two decades, Shinedown have cemented their status as one of the most vital and forward-thinking powerhouses in modern rock.
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