Shinedown is a very popular rock band from America. The team was founded in the state of Florida in the city of Jacksonville in 2001.
The history of the creation and popularity of Shinedown
After a year of activity, the Shinedown group signed a contract agreement with Atlantic Records. It is one of the largest recording companies in the world. Thanks to the signing of a contract with the band in mid-2003, the debut album Leave a Whisper was released.
In 2004, the musicians became accompanying members of the Van Halen band during their tour of the United States of America. A year later, the debut DVD-recording Live From the Inside was released, which included a full concert program, which took place in one of the states.
The group gained its first "portion" of popularity in October 2005, when they presented the song Save Me. The single stayed at the top of the charts for 12 weeks. This was a good result for novice performers. The following compositions began to enjoy significant success and also occupied leading positions in the charts.
In 2006, the band headlined the Sno-Core Tour with Seether. During this year, the group has participated in many shows and led other musical tours.
Musicians did not stop increasing their popularity every month. In December of the same year, the band teamed up with Soil to organize a joint tour of the States.
The success of Shinedown's third album
At the end of June 2008, the third album The Sound of Madness was released. Thus, the start of the rotation of the album began from the 8th position in the charts. He was very successful. During the first 7 days, more than 50 thousand copies were bought.
The Shinedown group was able to surprise even their own "fans" with this album. The collection contained incendiary compositions, the sound quality was much better, the performance in general. The single Devour, which was the album's first, also topped the rock charts. Some songs from the album have been used in films and TV series. In one year, the track I'm Alive was used in the hit movie The Avengers.
The musicians presented the fourth collection to the audience in 2012 by Amaryllis. In the first week after release, the album sold 106 copies. Video clips were created for the songs Bully, Unity, Enemies. Immediately after the release of the work, the guys went on tour, first in their native country, and then in Europe.
The group developed from year to year, creating more and more quality tracks, improving the technical characteristics of the compositions, adjusting to the relevance of the times. Since 2015, she has released two more albums - Threat to Survival, Attention Attention.
From the latest news, it is known that the musicians decided to postpone the tour, as this was affected by the difficult epidemiological situation in the world associated with the spread of coronavirus infection.
In 2020, the band created the song Atlas Falls, which was supposed to be included in the Amaryllis album. Thus, the musicians decided to raise money for support and treatment for Covid-19. They managed to allocate $20 and raised a total of $000 in the first 70 hours of fundraising.
Musicians try to keep in touch with the "fans" through social networks.
Music style
Most often, the band's musical style is equated with hard rock, alternative metal, grunge, post-grunge. But each album has compositions that differ in sound from the previous ones. With the waning popularity of nu metal towards the mid-2000s, they added more guitar solos to the music starting with Us and Them.
Group members
The group currently consists of four people. Brent Smith is the vocalist. Zach Myers plays guitar and Eric Bass plays bass. Barry Kerch is involved on percussion instruments.
Brent Smith - vocalist
Brent was born on January 10, 1978 in Knoxville, Tennessee. From childhood he was fond of music. Graduated from music school. Significant influences on him were such performers as: Otis Redding and Billie Holiday.
In the early 1990s, Brent was already a member of Blind Thought. He also soloed in the group Dreve. One day he decided that he did not have many prospects in these groups, so he tried to create his own team. Thus, the Shinedown group was created. He admitted that this was one of the best decisions in his life.
For a long period of time, Smith had problems with drugs. The vocalist was addicted to cocaine and OxyContin. However, thanks to willpower and the help of specialists, he was able to get rid of addiction in 2008. The musician says that he was greatly influenced by the birth of his son.
That is, the child literally pulled his father out of this bottom. Smith also values his family very much and loves his wife. Therefore, he dedicated one of the songs of the group If You Only Knew to his wife. Brent himself does not talk about the details of his personal life.
Interesting facts related to the vocalist include the fact that the musician has a very strong voice (four octaves). Therefore, he was often invited to create joint compositions and conduct performances. Not everyone can boast of such a feature.
