{"id":605897,"date":"2026-05-27T03:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605897\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T03:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T03:04:11","slug":"album-review-shinedown-ei8ht","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/605897\/","title":{"rendered":"Album review: Shinedown \u2013 EI8HT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Lightning in a bottle don\u2019t strike the same\u2019, Brent Smith sings on Burning Down The Disco, a prime cut from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kerrang.com\/artists\/shinedown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shinedown<\/a>\u2019s beefy new opus. It\u2019s hard to imagine that even AI, with its sophisticated algorithms, ever-expanding knowledge base, and limitless resources could pen a line so brilliantly bombastic. But that\u2019s what this Florida quartet does. It\u2019s their duty, as rock\u2019s premier people-pleasers, to recruit as many fans as possible, whatever their age or musical persuasion. <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">For proof, you need only remind yourself that the band debuted another of EI8HT\u2019s songs, the single Searchlight, at the Grand Ole Opry, America\u2019s most iconic country venue. Opportunistic? Maybe. Savvy? You\u2019re darn tootin\u2019!<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But that doesn\u2019t matter because that\u2019s the point of the exercise. These 18 tracks have been written with the objective of broadening what a modern rock band can sound like. So there are more flirtations with country music (Outlaw, Wide Open). There are moments of musical theatre (At The Bottom, Killing Fields) and arena slaying (Dance, Kid, Dance; Back To The Living) alike. Occasionally there\u2019s even a bit of electro goth thrown into the mix (Deep End). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018Lightning in a bottle don\u2019t strike the same\u2019, Brent Smith sings on Burning Down The Disco, a prime&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[96,128,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-605897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}