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DEVIL
Shinedown
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- Album
- ATTENTION ATTENTION
- Released
- 2018
- Genres
- post-grunge, alternative metal, rock
- Length
- 3:28
- Tempo
- 120 BPM
- Label
- Atlantic Records
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About this song
"DEVIL" is the opening track of Shinedown's album ATTENTION ATTENTION, not counting the intro. It was released as the first single from that sixth studio album on March 7, 2018, after a single had earlier been promised for February of that year. The song became Shinedown's 12th Billboard Mainstream Rock number one during the week of June 2, 2018. The band has described it, along with other songs on the album, as a return to a heavier sound compared with their previous album, Threat to Survival.
What it's about
The song takes a third-person view of fear, portraying a person who is afraid of themselves and the life around them. The character is depicted as giving up and dreading whatever may come.
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.
Fun facts
- Written by Brent Smith and Eric Bass.
- Produced by Eric Bass.
- Recorded at Ocean Industries Studios.