![]() “Devour” is a good indication of the band’s much improved guitar playing, the low-tuned, gritty verse riff crunches along before the guitars take over the lead and make the song all that more memorable. But now, the riffs are catchy and classic, and the chorus guitar chords always seem to change at the right moment, providing the right amount of emotion at the perfect time. Catchy, rhythmic, and crafty-all that Shinedown has missed from their past few albums-unoriginal guitar work has burdened the band. Shinedown has effectively gotten the hard rock guitar formulas down to a science-the main riff to the title track is damn near amazing. So naturally, in the vocal performance area, the album is much improved. The southern twang and the powerful notes are all found on their third album, however, his vocals have gotten faster and more aggressive, less formulaic. ![]() Lead vocalist Brent Smith’s vocals only get better. “The Sound of Madness” effectively takes the best of their two first albums, and increases the aggressive tone of their music. “Us and Them” fixed the issues with their debut, but the songwriting fell flat. “Leave a Whisper” spawned a massive hit with the emotional “45” but had some bad-ass rockers like “Fly From the Inside”, but the album felt disjointed. With one foot planted towards Lynyrd Skynyrd-styled Southern Rock and one foot planted towards aggressive Hard Rock, Shinedown are a nice hybrid of the best of the best. But as of recently, a Florida-based Hard Rock band named Shinedown have considerably raised the bar for mainstream rock albums. You can also fail miserably at making a good Hard Rock album-3 Doors Down miserably fail consistently, Nickelback well, just suck, Hinder rip-off trends, and Three Days Grace are mind-numbingly repetitive. Bands like AC/DC, Alter Bridge, System of a Down, Rise Against, etc all do a very good job of crafting well-made hard rock albums. Hard Rock can be done very well, or very badly. I'm not taking a side.just stating facts about the song.Review Summary: ".Without a doubt, it's one hell of a hard rock album with plenty of emotion and a razor-sharp edge." Also referencing, and more importantly "suffocate your own empire" as it relates to this war and what it has done to our country. It has to do with Bush and his last attempts to make everything right or to justify his actions - "this is your final hour". Dave from Cleveland, OhIn an interview with Brent, he said that this his first and possibly only political "shot".obviously directed at Bush.Ben from Manchester, United KingdomThis song rocks! I sing it all the time! GO SHINEDOWN!.Peter from Ebensburg, PaThis is the opening song on The Final Destination, which was freaking AWESOME!!!! I love this song and I love Shinedown!!!!.[p3yt0n} from Somewhere, InThis was the first Shinedown song I ever heard, and is one of my favorites.I hear this song being Hodge's final hour. Since I am an Iraq Veteran and probably going back, since our "savior" Obama is useless. We adore our troops and respect them to the hilt. ![]() We're not a political band but what we are is pro-soldiers. I have freedom of speech and I thank the soldiers out there fighting on the front line for that. 'Devour' was really a battle cry for them and also a sendoff to our president at that time and some of my personal opinions about him. ![]() I think our soldiers have been over there long enough and they need to come home and spend some time with their families. You know, the word war is a very ugly word. 'Devour' is about bringing our soldiers home. I don't think that in our lifetime we will see anything close to a thing like world peace, but I would like to think that there such a thing as world compromise. The time that we spent over there with the soldiers, playing for them and talking with them and meeting them on a daily basis really frustrated me. About three years ago we went into Kuwait and flew in and played a few shows there around. Smith: It came from our men and women in the Armed Forces. Nick from Plymouth, MnSP: What is the story behind the song 'Devour?'.Lilly from Springfield NhWhen I heard the beginning song in the final destination I started to freak out because I am a really big shinedown fan.
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