“We’re not really a band that likes to tell people necessarily what our songs are about because I think that ruins it for people. “I think we did our best to kind of visualize, but we’re not giving too much away,” the guitarist elaborated. It starts in the darkest place ever and in the end, it ends on a song like ‘Brilliant,’ which is so overpowering and upbeat. But it tells a story of kind of the start of this, where you start to kind of the end. It’s not really, it’s not a movie per se. And those elements are in the movie, those videos. You can especially see it in the ‘Monster’ video. You can kind of see it in the ‘Devil’ video. “And we got (director) Bill Yukich to do it, and Bill’s kind of a weirder, darker guy. “As far as the movie goes, we did our best to visualize what we thought it was,” Myers said. 1 mainstream rock singles – “Monster,” “Get Up,” “Devil” and “Attention Attention.” The film, meanwhile, was intended to further elaborate on the album’s themes of overcoming negativity and adversity. Last September, the band released a film, “Attention Attention,” which collects the videos for all 12 songs from Shinedown’s 2018 album of the same name and went on a fall tour to coincide with the film’s release. But fans have seen that Shinedown put the unexpected down time to good use. Now two years later, plans for the acoustic tour are on indefinite hold. It was going to be a rare opportunity for fans to see the hit-making group play a selection of rarely performed album cuts from across their career. Spring 2020 saw Shinedown’s unplugged “Deep Dive” tour go up in smoke when the pandemic hit. and tell me what you think!Īs Brent Smith would say.Features, Music SHINEDOWN TALKS ABOUT THEIR NEW ALBUM “PLANET ZERO.” Great production, great music and fun visuals throughout! Check it out on Amazon Prime, iTunes, Google Play, Youtube etc. It’s even more interesting seeing it unfold if you’ve seen the videos they put out when the album “ ATTENTION ATTENTION” originally came out and tried to imagine what the other music videos would look like if and when they were to come out.ġ0/10 would recommend whether you’re a Shinedown fan or not, although it helps to be interested in the music. They create a good flow to keep you interested in seeing where it goes – like a good film should. Bill Yukich and the team did a fantastic job at creating a journey and blending the album together. The production of this film was seamless. I don’t want to give too much away, in case you haven’t seen it yet (which, why haven’t you?!) One of the videos I was most excited to see come together was “ Darkside“, it was more theatrical than I could have thought but not in a bad way! It was one of my favorite songs off of the album, and quickly ended up being my favorite of the new videos that were shown in “ ATTENTION ATTENTION”. Don’t be afraid to ask for help, don’t be afraid to let it out. At the end of the day you are the only one that can change your life. Which, I believe, hits home for a lot of people who want to make changes and break the cycle that their family has been running for who knows how long. You look in the mirror and see that that’s exactly who you are” Where did it all begin? My parents? Their parents? Mother? Father? You look them in the eye and swear that you will never become them. One of my favorite (but lengthy) quotes is The film highlights the entirety of the album in order from beginning to end with smooth transitions between the songs linking the videos with different visuals and quotes recited by their front man Brent Smith. All of the men of Shinedown ( Brent Smith (Lead Vocalist), Zach Myers (Guitarist), Eric Bass (Bassist) and Barry Kerch (Drummer)) can be spotted giving it their all throughout the film. Initially when hearing the album, seeing the music videos they put out when it was first released and then hearing that they were going to put out a film later on, I was interested to see how it would come out. So when I heard that they were coming out with a film surrounding their last album “ATTENTION ATTENTION”, I was beyond excited to see what they had planned for us. If you know me, you know I love Shinedown.
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