It seems there will be no concept for the next Shinedown album!
The band’s bassist sat down with The Mistress Carrie Podcast to discuss his debut solo album, “Eric Bass Presents: I Had A Name”, and also talked a little bit about Shinedown’s upcoming eigth studio album.
He stated:
“I would say we’re 85 percent done writing, probably a third of the way done–completely done with the record, meaning that we have songs taht are mixed and done and everything. We have a lot of work still left to do.”
Bass continued with what fans can expect from the upcoming LP, stating:
“It is not a concept record. It is not a concept record. It’s just gonna be a straight-up Shinedown album, which is different. Again, people can blame me for it or whatever they wanna do. ‘Planet Zero’ was an unintentional concept record because of the interludes that happened and the way it all got kind of woven together. And the subject matter was there already, but that happened the last three days of making the record. We made those interludes and then–ta-da!–it’s a concept record, so to speak. And ‘Attention Attention’ was a story record as well. And then my record, ‘I Had A Name’, is obviously a concept record. So, yeah, the Shinedown record is just gonna be a collection of great songs.”
Shinedown’s last album, Planet Zero, was released in 2022 and gave the singles “Planet Zero”, “Daylight”, “Dead Don’t Die”, and “A Symptom of Being Human”.
