We have the full support of our label, our management and hopefully our fanbase, whether they've been there from day one or they're just kind of finding out who we are. "We're opening up the conversation into different subject matters that SHINEDOWN has never addressed. "Listen, the record… We're talking about things that we've never talked about before," he revealed. Regarding the first single from SHINEDOWN's seventh album, which is expected to arrive next month, Brent said: "It honestly addresses everything that society has dealt with from a planetary platform, if you will - not just here in the U.S., but the whole world - what the last 18 months has been like, and, at least in our opinion, how we've gotta move forward. You need to be able to have constructive conversations with each other in order to get actual action to happen for positive change." When I see what's going on in regards to people's freedom of speech and it being censored and people being pushed into a corner because of their opinions and what have you. But when you have certain people in power that do not have your best interests in mind, you have to stand up and make your voice heard. And us being able to not only work with each other, to grow with one another. This country, it's not called the Divided States Of America it's called the United States Of America, and we want people to understand that that comes down to the people that comes down to us. It's never supposed to be about… And I say this because I'm being very, very bold and very honest about it. But the thing about it is I don't necessarily think it's about pissing people off it's about understanding what we all went through but where we need to go now. In a lot of ways, this is a very humanitarian record."Īsked if SHINEDOWN will "piss people off" with some of the lyrical positions that are taken on the upcoming LP, Smith said: "Possibly. We're trying to be very honest and very real. "And we talk on this record, and we express on this record - we're not trying to dance around certain subject matter. "Going through everything that the world went through last year, and we wrote the majority of the record last year, and this year, we couldn't turn a blind eye to everything that was going on," he said. Smith also talked about the lyrical themes covered on the new SHINEDOWN album, saying they were inspired at least in part by the ongoing pandemic and resulting impact on the community, residents and businesses. A lot of the vocals on the record are dry and kind of right up in your face." The vocals aren't layered a ton - not a lot of effects on the vocals, so not a lot of delays and reverbs and things like that. We're just putting things left to right stereo, pushing everything to the front. It doesn't mean it's any less powerful it's just we're not dealing with a lot of stacks. But we wanted to make a real rock record, we wanted to make a real record where we focus on just making sure that the band is being heard the way the band needs to be heard. There are piano songs there's two really, really very intense-subject-matter piano songs that are gonna be in SHINEDOWN seven. So the majority of this record is authentically drums, bass, guitar. He continued: "I come from the Freddie Mercury school when it comes to vocals and layering and backgrounds and things of that nature because I try - I say 'try' - try to use my voice as an instrument. And ultimately, though, what we wanted to do with this album was make it just as ferocious as the other records but not utilizing so much of some of the style that we've done in the past with layering and layering guitars, adding lots of synth beds, stacking the vocals." So with that, you have a lot of instrumentation that is not just drums, bass, guitar and vocals - we use orchestras, we use a lot of synthesizers, we use a lot of techniques that… We don't believe in… Don't tie your hands up when you're making a record. And what I mean by that is we've proven that we can make these records that there's a lot of musicianship involved in it, and we have layered our records over the years because we love music and we love sound and we try to make really cinematic records. Speaking about the album's more "stripped-down" approach, he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We wanted to push everything to the front. The SHINEDOWN singer discussed the new LP in a recent interview with 95.9 The Rat's Carl Craft. Brent Smith says that SHINEDOWN's recently completed seventh studio album is a "controversial" and "provocative" effort which delves into "different subject matters" that the band has never addressed in the past.
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