The Sound Of Madness - JUNE 24. 2008

SHINEDOWN began recording in Los Angeles on September 20th, 2007. Audio mixing for the new album has since been completed. The first single, Devour is now set to be released on May 6th. The supporting tour for the album will likely begin with the band playing several festival shows before the release of the new album (Confirmed to be titled "The Sound of Madness") on June 24th, 2008.

 

Regarding the upcoming album, lead singer Brent Smith was quoted in an interview with Billboard.com as saying; "It's time to just go over the top, literally go above and beyond what a human being thinks they're capable of recording. We want to do a hard rock record that has a lot of crossover potential, but also some of the most insanely intense and heavy material that this band has ever tried - and see if we can pull it off." Smith noted that the group had more than forty songs to consider after writing sessions in Atlanta, Nashville and Los Angeles, but that they have narrowed the number down to a rumored eleven songs, which will appear on the album.

 

The band played five "potential singles" from the new batch - "Sound of Madness", "Junkies for Fame", "The Crow and the Butterfly", "Second Chance", and "Devour" - on a short run of shows in the summer months of 2007. Other songs on the album include the band's first love ballad "If You Only Knew", a song that Smith said he had never intended to write, but was inspired to pen after discovering that his girlfriend was expecting their first child.