I didn’t come back to the studio for about 11 days, and finally he called me. and the European audience.Īnd Eric had this piano part for a while, and it became the song “GET UP.” Interesting thing about that was I wrote the song about Eric, and that’s also what made it a very unique process. Then we came back and actually wrote “BRILLIANT” that was inspired by that Maiden tour in the U.K. and Europe, so we had a break from the studio go on tour. With ATTENTION ATTENTION being the band’s first concept album, how did the songwriting process come about?Įric and I started working in the studio early 2017, and we had written “BLACK SOUL” and were in the middle of writing “MONSTERS.” We took off and had 44 days with Iron Maiden in the U.K. They’ve given us the platform to be ourselves, and there’s something about us that they identify with, and ultimately, we identify with them as well. A lot of the success comes down to the audience. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Songs chart with “MONSTERS” last month-how do you feel about that? Right now, we’re on tour with Badflower, Dinosaur Pile-Up and Broken Hands, and both from the U.K. The last couple of years we’ve been co-headlining a lot of tours in North America from 2015 to the back half of last year, but for 2019 we all made a conscious decision that we want to be the headliner and be able to tour with the bands we’re into so we can bring something different to the audience-not just for North America but from a global standpoint too. The audience is getting bigger, and this is one of the defining years for us. Read more: Shinedown announce fall tour, reveal returning support Following last year’s success of ATTENTION ATTENTION, how is 2019 treating you so far?īRENT SMITH: This year particularly has been extremely strong on the touring side.
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