SOLD OUT: Shinedown, Cold Kingdom

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Sanjay Parikh

Shinedown

Nearly two decades after the release of Shinedown’s 2003 debut album, Leave A Whisper, this band shows no sign of slowing down. Planet Zero, the group’s seventh studio disc, takes aim at what bugs us in 2022 (divisive politics, cancel culture, Twitter) and is generating rave reviews with songs that hold their own next to such Shinedown classics as “Second Chance,” “Atlas Falls,” “Cut the Cord” and “Bully.” The band that stands at the top of Billboard’s “Greatest of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists" still has plenty to say — both lyrically and musically. Minneapolis rockers Cold Kingdom will open the show. Rescheduled from February, this show is sold out.

$75.

media release: Multi-platinum rock band Shinedown – one of the most successful, vital and forward-thinking powerhouses in modern rock over the last two decades, who were named #1 on Billboard’s Greatest Of All Time Mainstream Rock Artists Chart in 2021 – is hitting the road this year in support of their seventh studio album Planet Zero, with their biggest stage show yet, propelled by the undeniable power of front man Brent Smith’s voice. Their summer outing will be stopping locally in Madison on Thursday, July 14 at The Sylvee.

Planet Zero, due out July 1^st on Atlantic Records, features the hard-hitting title track and lead single “Planet Zero,” which has amassed over 11 million streams and notched the band their 18^th #1 at Active Rock Radio, and their newest single “Daylight,” a soaring and poignant anthem about the human condition, offering an assurance that you are never alone. “Planet Zero” and album track “The Saints of Violence and Innuendo” introduced an album that is an incisive yet optimistic look at the fractures and frays of a society that has undergone many challenges in the last few years, seeing Shinedown take on the forces that are keeping us divided at a time when we need to be coming together. The high-concept, viscerally charged album, produced by Shinedown’s Eric Bass, takes a hard look at the divisiveness among those of differing ideologies, cancel culture ran rampant, the toxicity of social media, the need for honesty in our public discourse, and the corrosive effects of these things on mental health and humanity. A dystopian saga that warns of dangerous dehumanizing consequences, Planet Zero is a reminder that if we shut each other down, we risk losing empathy, respect for one another, and our ability to communicate and unify in a way that leads to actual progress and understanding. The album also shares hope, perseverance, triumph, and reminders that we all need one another, like on “Daylight.” After all, it is the band’s impassioned striving for unity that has long been at the heart of their creative output.