SHINEDOWN – Planet Zero (2022) HQ

”Planet Zero” is the upcoming, seventh studio album by American rockers SHINEDOWN, set to be released on July 1, 2022. If you’re the sort that tends to ‘Shatter the glass when it’s half full’, then Shinedown are definitely seeing life through your lens. On the weirdly comforting track ‘Dysfunctional You’, this established and ever developing creative force are both flying the freak flag and saluting it. ‘I won’t be the ending that was written for me,’ frontman Brent Smith concludes on ‘Dead Don’t Die’, another song that finds strength in adversity.
”Planet Zero” was written during lockdown, a time when everything seemed to stop and people turned to screen-based comforts. This was a double-edged sword, as the band document capably on this seventh album.
Over two decades, Smith and co. have pushed the bounds just enough with each album, while still staying true to their Southern-influenced modern rock. At first glance, ”Planet Zero” looks incredibly weighty, with some 20 tracks. About a half dozen are short interludes. Regardless, the 14 full-length songs makes are expansive experience.
Between tracks, robot-voiced instructions leave us in no doubt that we are, or were, being asked to conform – but the music itself flies in the face of such stricture. It has medicinal, spirit-reviving properties. Comfort against the machine.
Highly Recommended

01 – 2184
02 – No Sleep Tonight
03 – Planet Zero
04 – Welcome
05 – Dysfunctional You
06 – Dead Don’t Die
07 – Standardized Experiences
08 – American Burning
09 – Do Not Panic
10 – A Symptom Of Being Human
11 – Hope
12 – A More Utopian Future
13 – Clueless And Dramatic
14 – Sure Is Fun
15 – Daylight
16 – This Is A Warning
17 – The Saints Of Violence And Innuendo
18 – Army Of The Underappreciated
19 – Delete
20 – What You Wanted

Brent Smith – lead vocals
Zach Myers – guitar, backing vocals
Eric Bass – bass, backing vocals
Barry Kerch – drums

Pre order:
www.amazon.com/Planet-Zero-Shinedown/dp/B09R6LW4D9