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A year and a half in the making, Shinedown’s follow-up to Planet Zero is a sprawling double album. A year and a half in the making, Shinedown’s follow-up to Planet Zero is a sprawling double album. The propulsive single “Dance, Kid, Dance” manages to be both fun and incisive as vocalist Brent Smith takes aim at society’s compulsion to medicate our children’s behaviour away. “My social skills are wearing off, my phobias are at a loss,” Smith sings. “Don’t call me crazy, that’s how they made me.” The chiming guitars of “Three Six Five” recall those of Def Leppard’s “Hysteria” as Smith sings of a coming storm. The midnight honky-tonk of “Outlaw” is underscored by tasteful lap steel courtesy of long-time collaborator Dave Bassett. “Safe and Sound” is a pounding rocker with metallic overtones while “Searchlight” is a country ballad—complete with steel guitar, banjo and fiddle—that Shinedown debuted live at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry in 2025.