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Shinedown is an American rock band from Jacksonville, Florida, formed in 2001 and founded by members Brent Smith
Brent Smith
Brent Smith is the lead vocalist and singer-songwriter of the band Shinedown. His biggest influences as a singer are Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, and Chris Cornell.-Personal life:...

 (vocals), Brad Stewart
Brad Stewart
Brad Stewart is a professional musician best known for his work with hard rock band Shinedown. However, he now plays in Amaru, Society Red, Fuel, and Burn Season-Shinedown:Brad was the second member to join Shinedown after vocalist Brent Smith...

 (bass), Jasin Todd (guitar), and Barry Kerch
Barry Kerch
Barry Kerch is a professional musician who currently plays the drums in the hard rock band Shinedown. Along with lead vocalist Brent Smith, he is the only remaining original member of the band.-Personal life:...

 (drums). A few line-up changes followed, and the band's current line-up consists of Smith and Kerch, the band's only two remaining original members, with guitarist Zach Myers
Zach Myers
Zach Myers was born in 1983 in Memphis, Tennessee. He founded and is currently the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band The Fairwell...

 and bassist and pianist Eric Bass. Since Shinedown's inception, they have released three albums – Leave a Whisper
Leave A Whisper
Leave a Whisper is the debut album by Shinedown, a hard rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The album was released on May 27, 2003, faring well due to the success of the singles "Fly from the Inside" and "45"...

 (2003), Us and Them (2005), The Sound of Madness
The Sound of Madness
The Sound of Madness is the third studio album by American rock band Shinedown, released June 24, 2008. The album's lead single, "Devour," was released to radio on May 5, 2008....

 (2008) – and a total of thirteen singles, all on Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records
Atlantic Records is an American record label best known for its many recordings of rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and jazz...

. They have sold over eight million albums worldwide.

Leave a Whisper (2003–2005)

Leave a Whisper
Leave A Whisper
Leave a Whisper is the debut album by Shinedown, a hard rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The album was released on May 27, 2003, faring well due to the success of the singles "Fly from the Inside" and "45"...

 was the band's debut album, released in July 2003. It featured successful tracks such as "Fly from the Inside
Fly from the Inside
"Fly from the Inside" is the first song and lead single Shinedown's debut album Leave a Whisper. The song performed fairly well on the charts, reaching #5 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, the band's first hit single, and is still a very popular song that remains in the setlist at...

", "Burning Bright
Burning Bright (song)
"Burning Bright" is the fourth single from the post-grunge band Shinedown's debut album Leave a Whisper. A new mix of the song was featured on the re-release of Leave a Whisper, titled the "Sanford" mix. It also marks as Shinedown's sixth most successful single to date, reaching number two on the...

", the emotionally-charged "45
45 (song)
"45" is a song by the alternative rock band Shinedown. The song was released on July 13, 2003, on the album Leave a Whisper. Following the album's release, "45" became a popular single. An acoustic cover of "45" was featured on the album's re-release on June 15, 2004.Brent Smith has stated in an...

" and the popular cover of the Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Lynyrd Skynyrd is an American rock band prominent in spreading Southern Rock during the 1970s.Originally formed as the "Noble Five" in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1964, the band rose to worldwide recognition on the basis of its driving live performances and signature tune, Freebird...

 classic "Simple Man
Simple Man (Lynyrd Skynyrd song)
"Simple Man" is the fourth track on Lynyrd Skynyrd's first album, .-Composition:Shortly after Ronnie Van Zant's grandmother and Gary Rossington's mother died, they got together in Van Zant's apartment and shared stories about their mothers. Rossington came up with a chord progression, and Van Zant...

". The acoustic cover jolted the band to popularity, and later made a tribute to Dimebag Darrell
Dimebag Darrell
Darrell Lance Abbott , also known as Diamond Darrell and Dimebag Darrell, was an American guitarist. He was best known as a founding member of the heavy metal bands Pantera and Damageplan. Abbott also contributed to the album Rebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration between Pantera and David Allan Coe...

 during concert performances.

In 2004 the band released a live DVD of the album entitled Live from the Inside
Live From The Inside
Live From The Inside is a live DVD by the American hard rock band Shinedown, at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC released on August 23, 2005.-Track listing:# Intro# In Memory# Stranger Inside# Fly from the Inside# Better Version# Burning Bright...

 which also contained a documentary. The recording featured the final concert of the "Leave a Whisper" touring schedule.

Us and Them (2005–2007)

After the hugely successful Leave a Whisper and accompanying tour, the band went back into the studio in 2005 to record their second album. On October 4, 2005, the band released Us and Them, which went on to produce three singles; "Save Me
Save Me (Shinedown song)
"Save Me" is a song recorded and performed by the post-grunge band Shinedown. The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's second studio album, Us and Them. "Save Me" was the theme song for WWE's No Mercy 2005 pay-per-view event, and is their second most commercially...

", "I Dare You
I Dare You
"I Dare You" is the second single from Shinedown's second album, Us and Them. It reached number two on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and has been sung on American Idol by Chris Daughtry and was a minor hit on pop charts...

", and "Heroes
Heroes (Shinedown song)
"Heroes" is the third single from Shinedown's second album, Us and Them. It reached number 4 on the U.S. Mainstream Rock chart and number 28 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart. As with the preceding single, "I Dare You", no music video was made for promotion....

". The lead single, "Save Me", maintained the #1 position of the Active Rock Charts for twelve weeks straight, setting a record for the band. The two other singles had similar success – "I Dare You" was notably performed on American Idol
American Idol
American Idol, titled American Idol: The Search for a Superstar for the first season, is a reality television singing competition created by Simon Fuller and produced by FremantleMedia North America and 19 Entertainment...

 by Chris Daughtry
Chris Daughtry
Christopher Adam "Chris" Daughtry is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the rock band Daughtry and as the fourth-place finalist on the fifth season of American Idol, from which he was eliminated on May 10, 2006...

 and was the secondary theme song for the WWE flagship pay-per-view Wrestlemania 22
WrestleMania 22
Notes: .The predominant feud on the SmackDown! brand was between Kurt Angle, Rey Mysterio, and Randy Orton over the World Heavyweight Championship. Mysterio won the 2006 Royal Rumble match, last eliminating Orton, to earn a World Championship match at WrestleMania. At No Way Out, Orton defeated...

. Us and Them was certified gold by the RIAA on November 13, 2006.

The album has three versions for release; the regular thirteen-track version, a limited edition with three bonus acoustic tracks, and a store-specific version with two bonus tracks: "Break" and "Carried Away". After the album's release the band took part in 2007's SnoCore Tour
SnoCore Tour
The SnoCore Tour, occasionally typeset as Sno-Core, is an annual festival tour of the United States. It features performances by some of the most popular groups largely of the alternative rock and metal spectrum...

 with Seether
Seether
Seether is a post-grunge/alternative metal band from Pretoria, South Africa, formed in 1999. The band is currently signed to Wind-up Records...

, Flyleaf
Flyleaf
Flyleaf is an American alternative metal band, formed in the Belton and Temple, Texas regions in 2000. The band has charted on mainstream rock, Christian pop and Christian metal genres. They performed around the United States in 2003 until releasing their eponymous debut album, Flyleaf, in 2005....

, and Halestorm
Halestorm
Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The group's self-titled debut album was released on April 28, 2009 through Atlantic Records.-History:...

. After that the band joined Trapt
Trapt
Trapt is an American rock band that formed in Los Gatos, California in August 1997. The group is composed of lead singer Chris Taylor Brown, lead guitarist Robb Torres, bass guitarist Peter Charell, and drummer Aaron "Monty" Montgomery...

 for the Equinox Tour. The band then proceeded to play their first overseas concert at the London Astoria
London Astoria
The London Astoria was a music venue, located at 157 Charing Cross Road, in London, England. It had been leased and run by Festival Republic since 2000. It was closed on 15 January 2009 and has since been demolished...

 on June 6, 2006, supporting Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge
Alter Bridge is an American rock band that was formed in 2004 in Orlando, Florida by lead guitarist Mark Tremonti, bassist Brian Marshall, and drummer Scott Phillips, who are all also members of Creed. Lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Myles Kennedy, formerly of The Mayfield Four and the frontman...

. In the summer of 2006, the band then opened for Godsmack
Godsmack
Godsmack is an American heavy metal band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995. The band is composed of founder, frontman and songwriter Sully Erna, guitarist Tony Rombola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Shannon Larkin...

 and Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie
Rob Zombie is an American musician, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He founded the heavy metal band White Zombie and has been nominated three times as a solo artist for the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance.Zombie has also established a career as a film director, creating the...

 on their tour of North America, effectively ending their rigorous touring schedule.

On December 12, 2006, Shinedown played a concert in Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...

 at The Tennessee Theatre which was filmed for a DVD the band was expected to release later in 2007. However, after a show in Waukesha, Wisconsin on July 21, 2007, the band made it known that the DVD was scrapped by Atlantic Records. "We don't want to put anything out if the band is gonna be presented in the wrong way," Smith said. "I might be able to bootleg it later on ... but as of now I don't see it coming out anytime soon." In late 2007 after taking some time off, the band returned to studio to record a new album.

The Sound of Madness (2007–2010)

The band began recording their third album, The Sound of Madness
The Sound of Madness
The Sound of Madness is the third studio album by American rock band Shinedown, released June 24, 2008. The album's lead single, "Devour," was released to radio on May 5, 2008....

, in Los Angeles on September 20, 2007. It was released on June 24, 2008. A deluxe edition was released as well including three extra tracks, digitally. Their first single, "Devour
Devour (song)
"Devour" is a song recorded and performed by the hard rock band Shinedown. The song was released as the first single in promotion of the band's third studio album, The Sound of Madness. The track landed online and at multi-format rock radio outlets nationwide on May 5...

", was released on May 6, 2008, and was their second #1 on the active rock chart.

"Devour" was also the theme song for the WWE pay-per-view Night of Champions 2008, as well as part of the soundtrack to the 2009 film, The Final Destination. It can also be found on the soundtrack from Madden NFL 09
Madden NFL 09
Madden NFL 09 is an American football video game based on the NFL that was published by EA Sports and developed by EA Tiburon. It is the 20th annual installment in the Madden NFL video game franchise. This game is known for its realistic graphics and big hits...

. The video for the song was released on June 25, 2008. "Sound of Madness
Sound of Madness
"Sound of Madness" is the third single by the rock band Shinedown from their 2008 album The Sound of Madness and is also the album's title track, despite the exclusion of the word "the" in the song's title. The song was chosen to be the title track after some road testing on a short run of dates....

" was also used as a song for WWE Wrestlemania 25 review aired on NBC
NBC
The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 on August 30, 2009 for the Shawn Michaels
Shawn Michaels
Michael Shawn Hickenbottom , better known by his ring name Shawn Michaels, is an American television host and retired professional wrestler. He presents the Outdoor Channel show MacMillan River Adventures, and is currently signed to WWE, where he has served in an ambassadorial role since December...

/The Undertaker match.

"Second Chance
Second Chance (Shinedown song)
"Second Chance" is a song by American hard rock band Shinedown and the second single from their 2008 album, The Sound of Madness. However, the song is not included on the UK release of The Sound of Madness...

", the second single off The Sound of Madness, is Shinedown's biggest hit to date, being their first top 10 song on the Billboard Hot 100. The song peaked at number 7 during its duration on the chart. "Second Chance" has since gone double platinum. Ironically for the song "that broke into everything", it was one the band hated when they first wrote it.

On April 11, 2008, lead singer Brent Smith announced that Jasin Todd was no longer a member of the band, saying "at this time, he's no longer with us in Shinedown." In the liner notes of The Sound of Madness, Smith says that he loves Todd and considers him the "brother [he] never had". Since parting ways with Shinedown, Todd has remained out of the public eye. Although rumors briefly surfaced that he had joined Soil (the band promptly denied this), he eventually became the guitarist for the rock band Fuel
Fuel (band)
Fuel is an American rock band formed by guitarist/songwriter Carl Bell and bassist Jeff Abercrombie in 1989. Originally known as Small the Joy, they changed the group's name to Fuel sometime in 1994...

.

Shinedown re-released their albums, Leave a Whisper and Us and Them as deluxe editions on July 7, 2009. The albums are only available digitally. Between the two albums, the band released 25 unreleased tracks, seven of which were never heard before. The deluxe editions are scheduled for a July 7, 2009 release.

November 18, 2009 brought the release of The Sight of Madness, the band's first digital video album. The album features the band's videos and five live videos from an early 2009 performance at the Tabernacle
The Tabernacle
The Tabernacle, informally known as The Tabby, is a mid-size concert hall, in the U.S. city of Atlanta, currently managed by concert promoter Live Nation...

 in Atlanta, Georgia. This release is only available on iTunes. On December 18, the video for "Second Chance" ranked #7 on VH1's Top 40 Music Videos of 2009. It was helped to that ranking due to being on the countdown for 20 weeks. Other singles from the album are "If You Only Knew", and "The Crow & the Butterfly."

Shinedown was nominated for, but did not win, the "Alternative Rock" category at the American Music Awards
American Music Awards
-Conception:The AMAs were created by Dick Clark in 1973 to compete with the Grammys after the move of that year's show to Nashville, Tennessee led to CBS picking up the Grammy telecasts after its first two in 1971 and 1972 were broadcast on ABC...

 in 2009
American Music Awards of 2009
The 37th American Music Awards took place on November 22, 2009 at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, California. The nominees were announced on October 13, 2009. For the first time in history, there was no host for the year's ceremony. Instead, various celebrities introduced the performers similar...

. The nomination was due to the radio success of their hit single "Second Chance".

During shows on December 15, 2009 in Rockford, Illinois and December 18 in Biloxi, Mississippi, the band joined Papa Roach
Papa Roach
Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California. Their first major-label release was the triple-platinum album Infest . The group's success continued with their gold album Lovehatetragedy , their platinum album Getting Away with Murder , The Paramour Sessions , and Metamorphosis...

 on stage to record a live version of U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

's "Beautiful Day
Beautiful Day
"Beautiful Day" is a song by the rock band U2. It is the first track from their 2000 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind, and it was released as the album's lead single. It was a commercial success, helping launch the album to multi-platinum status, and is one of U2's biggest hits to date...

" for Papa Roach's forthcoming live album. They later headlined the "Carnival of Madness” Tour. This United States tour began July 16 and wrapped up September 3, 2010 at the Alaska State Fair.

"The Crow & the Butterfly
The Crow & the Butterfly
"The Crow & the Butterfly" is the fifth single by the rock band Shinedown from their 2008 album The Sound of Madness. The song was written by Shinedown lead singer Brent Smith...

" was released as the fifth single and began receiving airplay on April 6, 2010. Shinedown released two songs for movie soundtracks. The track "Her Name is Alice" was done for the movie Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland (2010 film)
Alice in Wonderland is a 2010 American computer-animated/live action fantasy adventure film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and released by Walt Disney Pictures...

 and released on the respective soundtrack named Almost Alice
Almost Alice
-Charts:-References:...

. Shinedown also contributed "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)
Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)
"Diamond Eyes " is a digital single by Shinedown, written for the 2010 film The Expendables. The song was released on iTunes on June 15, 2010, and to online retailers on June 21, 2010. It is the nineteenth track on The Sound of Madness.The song was released to U.S. radio on December 7...

" to the Sylvester Stallone movie The Expendables
The Expendables (2010 film)
The Expendables is a 2010 American ensemble action film written by David Callaham and Sylvester Stallone, and directed by Stallone. Filming began on March 28, 2009, in Rio de Janeiro, New Orleans, and Los Angeles, and the film was released in theaters on August 13, 2010 in North America.The film is...

. It was released to online retailers on June 21, 2010, and as an official single December 7, 2010.

Shinedown released a deluxe CD/DVD edition of The Sound of Madness, on November 23, 2010. It featured nine bonus songs, including a version of the track "Breaking Inside" with guest vocals from Halestorm
Halestorm
Halestorm is an American rock band from Red Lion, Pennsylvania. The group's self-titled debut album was released on April 28, 2009 through Atlantic Records.-History:...

's Lzzy Hale, along all the music videos filmed for The Sound of Madness, an interview with the band, and five live clips previously available only on iTunes.

The Sound of Madness went on to spend 120 consecutive weeks on the Billboard 200 chart, starting from its June 24, 2008 release and ending in late October 2010.

In 2010, the band announced an acoustic tour called "Anything and Everything". On this tour, they will take questions from the audience and take song requests. Brent Smith announced that the band is recording a live DVD of the "Anything and Everything" tour in Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri
Kansas City, Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and is the anchor city of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area, the second largest metropolitan area in Missouri. It encompasses in parts of Jackson, Clay, Cass, and Platte counties...

, and that they will distribute it along with the Carnival of Madness DVD, another live DVD recorded in the last year.

Fourth studio album (2011-present)

On February 21, 2011, via video chat on shinedown.com, the band announced the name of the new live DVD will be Somewhere in the Stratosphere
Somewhere in the Stratosphere
-Disc 2: Live from Kansas City :-Personnel:* Brent Smith - lead vocals* Zach Myers - guitar, backing vocals* Eric Bass - bass guitar, piano, additional guitar, backing vocals* Barry Kerch - drums...

. On March 8, it was announced that the album, a double CD/DVD, would be released on May 3 and include footage from the "Carnival of Madness" and "Anything and Everything" tours, as well as backstage footage, interviews, and other material. Somewhere in the Stratosphere was released on May 3, 2011.

In March 2011, guitarist Zach Myers has stated that the band was writing material for a fourth studio album. Myers stated that the band had around 14 songs written, and planned to work further on the album later in the year.

While attending the 59th annual BMI Pop Awards on May 17, Brent Smith was asked if the new album was similar to that on 2008′s platinum-certified album The Sound of Madness. Smith responded back, “Not really, because we can’t compare any of the other records to this one — just like we can’t compare the first one to the second one or the third one to the first one,” he said. “We pride ourselves on being a band that each record sounds completely different than the last. The beautiful thing is the journey and finding out where you are in your life, not only as a person, but where you are as an artist and as a musician and how far you’ve come and how far you’ve grown. So, for us, we tour a lot — our last record, we toured for almost three years — so it’s very, very crucial and very, very important for us for this fourth record [to be as strong as possible], so we take our time.”

On August 16, 2011, it was announced that Shinedown had begun recording new material at Ocean Way Recording
Ocean Way Recording
Ocean Way Recording is the name of a series of recording studios in Hollywood, California and Nashville, Tennessee. Ocean Way Studios is well known in the recording industry due to the award-winning albums that were produced there....

 with producer Rob Cavallo, who had previously worked with the band on The Sound of Madness.

Band members

Current members
  • Brent Smith
    Brent Smith
    Brent Smith is the lead vocalist and singer-songwriter of the band Shinedown. His biggest influences as a singer are Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, and Chris Cornell.-Personal life:...

     - lead vocals (2001–present)
  • Barry Kerch
    Barry Kerch
    Barry Kerch is a professional musician who currently plays the drums in the hard rock band Shinedown. Along with lead vocalist Brent Smith, he is the only remaining original member of the band.-Personal life:...

     - drums, percussion (2001-present)
  • Zach Myers
    Zach Myers
    Zach Myers was born in 1983 in Memphis, Tennessee. He founded and is currently the lead singer and guitarist for the rock band The Fairwell...

     - guitar, backing vocals (2005–present)
  • Eric Bass - bass guitar, piano, backing vocals (2008–present)


Former members
  • Jasin Todd - guitar (2001–2007)
  • Nick Perri
    Nick Perri
    Nick Perri is a professional lead guitarist, songwriter, producer-engineer, and business owner. He has played for the platinum bands/artists Shinedown, Perry Farrell, Silvertide, Matt Sorum, SINAI, and Christina Perri. In 2009 Perri launched PERRI INK. LLC as a parent company for his future...

     - guitar (2008)
  • Brad Stewart
    Brad Stewart
    Brad Stewart is a professional musician best known for his work with hard rock band Shinedown. However, he now plays in Amaru, Society Red, Fuel, and Burn Season-Shinedown:Brad was the second member to join Shinedown after vocalist Brent Smith...

     - bass guitar (2001–2006)

Discography

Studio albums
  • Leave a Whisper
    Leave A Whisper
    Leave a Whisper is the debut album by Shinedown, a hard rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. The album was released on May 27, 2003, faring well due to the success of the singles "Fly from the Inside" and "45"...

     (2003)
  • Us and Them (2005)
  • The Sound of Madness
    The Sound of Madness
    The Sound of Madness is the third studio album by American rock band Shinedown, released June 24, 2008. The album's lead single, "Devour," was released to radio on May 5, 2008....

     (2008)

Live albums
  • Live from the Inside
    Live From The Inside
    Live From The Inside is a live DVD by the American hard rock band Shinedown, at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC released on August 23, 2005.-Track listing:# Intro# In Memory# Stranger Inside# Fly from the Inside# Better Version# Burning Bright...

     (2005)
  • Somewhere in the Stratosphere
    Somewhere in the Stratosphere
    -Disc 2: Live from Kansas City :-Personnel:* Brent Smith - lead vocals* Zach Myers - guitar, backing vocals* Eric Bass - bass guitar, piano, additional guitar, backing vocals* Barry Kerch - drums...

    (2011)
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