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Devour shinedown chords1/5/2024 ![]() ![]() “Digging deeper than a six foot hole/She’s snorting/Cocaine through a/Suicide note,” Brent Smith sings. Endlessly angry and fast, it’s a pounding hard rock anthem. The other high-point "Cyanide Sweet Tooth Suicide" pulls the string out from under you. The album peaks with the beautiful ballad “Second Chance”, where the vocals envoke lots of emotion and keeps the song as memorable as past classics like ‘45’, and somehow the ballad isn’t fake at all, and the album keeps it’s aggressive, hard edge going full-fledged, even with the ballad. “I created the sound of madness/Wrote the book on pain/Somehow I’m still here/To explain,” Smith sings powerfully in the chorus, but the chorus isn’t the best part, the aggressive, kick-ass opening section as Smith barks out his vocals at a choppy, powerful pace. Possibly one of the best tracks I've heard by a Hard Rock band in the mainstream as of recent. However, the main problem may just be the album’s inability to live up to the massively high standards the title track sets. Shinedown has made strides to improve their album’s flow in the past, and despite it working together better than it's debut, there’s a few disjointed songs and a little drag towards the middle. “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. Please remember to transpose before you print or save as a PDF.Review Summary: ".Without a doubt, it's one hell of a hard rock album with plenty of emotion and a razor-sharp edge." Once you've made a purchase and if your chosen piece is transposable, you can then adjust it to your desired key. Conversely, choosing -1 Semitone for a piece originally in C will transpose it to B. A completely white icon indicates transposition options, which include: Original, 1 Semitone, 2 Semitones, 3 Semitones, -1 Semitone, -2 Semitones, and -3 Semitones.įor example, if a song's original key is C, selecting 1 Semitone will transpose it to C#. To check, look for the "notes" icon at the bottom of the viewer. We highly recommend verifying transposition availability before completing your purchase. While a majority of our scores support transposition, there are exceptions. However, if the feature is unavailable for that particular score, the "notes" icon will appear grayed out. If the piece is eligible for transposition, a range of semitone options will be displayed. To transpose "Devour", simply click on the "notes" icon located at the bottom of the viewer. ![]()
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