![]() Perhaps the heaviest, most powerful song the band has ever recorded, it makes sense that the album’s lead single and title-track, “Planet Zero,” would directly follow. This is the case with “No Sleep Tonight,” a piece with a much-needed rebellious Punk attitude. Very science fiction indeed, but not at all far from reality, the brief dialogue tracks perfectly segue into each of the songs that follow, and if anything, allows us to raise our own questions about the world at hand.Ī lot to absorb, as stated, Shinedown does not force any of this down your throat, but instead sparks the flame that allows you to burn your own fire in whichever way you wish. ![]() Doing this with a concept format, there are striking narratives in between most of the songs pieces where artificial intelligence warns us of non-compliance, tells us how we should be feeling, and if we do not, alert us of our inevitable re-education. Lasting just under fifty minutes, the album has all the key emotions that amplify its effectiveness- a true sense of anger aimed at a new world order, an intelligent explanation for such anger, proposed resolution, and last but not least, hope when all seems lost. This is exactly what Shinedown does within twenty tracks that make up Planet Zero. What this means is not necessarily preaching atop a soap box, but giving a point of view that is educated in order to spark the critical thinking process. You see, any good art imitates life, and furthermore, the best art is one that gives an observational view. To clarify, no one in their right mind should want to pour gasoline on the fire of any kind of division, and no one should ever want to engage in any sort of physical or verbal war again, just ask Shinedown… listen to 2008’s “Devour.” This in mind, with the path becoming narrower and trees closing in, Planet Zero is the obvious next step for Shinedown. Call it alarmism, but if we take a moment to disconnect from our screens to actually take a look around, we will see what is going on just ask Shinedown who allude to our blinders through our ‘connection obsession’ throughout ATTENTION ATTENTION. Not the type of civil war happening on a battlefield, at least not yet thank goodness, it is one where words are weapons with any of us on any given day being fair game. Now four years since, we have lived through a pandemic where governments across the globe blanketly shutdown civilization, political venom is even more vicious than before, and whether we believe it or not, we are amidst a civil war. ![]() As mentioned, ATTENTION ATTENTION came at a time of unrest in the world political lines were drawn, everyone was pointing fingers at each other, and tensions were rising. Marking Shinedown’s seventh overall studio album, before we even place the magnifying glass over Planet Zero, we must recap its clear companion, ATTENTION ATTENTION. Now four years later, the shadow casted over us is ever larger, thus inspiring Shinedown’s latest observational work Planet Zero. Back in 2018 Shinedown tried to warn us of the dire societal path we were headed with the bold album ATTENTION ATTENTION.
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