Amaryllis (album)

chronology
amaryllis
Shinedown studio album
Publication ; (s)	2012
Label (s)	Atlantic Records , Roadrunner Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Post-grunge , hard rock , alternative metal
Title (number)	12
running time	approx. 44 minutes
occupation	Vocals , electric guitar : Brent Smith; Drums : Barry Kerch ; Electric Guitar : Zach Myers ; Electric Bass : Eric Bass
production	Rob Cavallo

Amaryllis is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Shinedown . It was released on March 23, 2012 and is the sequel to The Sound of Madness .

Track list

Adrenaline - 3:25
Faceoff - 3:58
Amaryllis - 4:02
Unity - 4:11
Enemies - 3:06
I'm Not Alright - 3:05
Nowhere Kids - 3:10
Miracle - 3:32
I'll Follow You - 3:55
For My Sake - 3:44
My Name (Wearing Me Out) - 3:32
Through the Ghost - 3:59

criticism

Michael Edele from laut.de puts the band between Black Stone Cherry and Nickelback . Singer Brent Smith always ensures that certain something with his singing . Albert Ranner from cdstarts.de criticizes the mix of quieter ballads and harder songs: As a cotton ball with a hard core, it is not always easy to differentiate between really decent and lousy shinedowns, but on "Amaryllis" this tiring feeling outweighs everything to have heard fresher and better elsewhere. The album is only for the die-hard alternative rock fan .

useful information

Like its predecessor, the album is produced by Rob Cavallo, who has also produced Green Day , My Chemical Romance and Kid Rock . Outside the US, the album was marketed by Roadrunner Records . The album was released Europe-wide on March 23, 2012, in the USA and the rest of the world only on March 27, 2012. The first single was released on January 3, 2012 Bully ; a lyric and a music video followed later. On March 12, 2012, the music video for Unity was released. The title Bully deals with the topic of bullying among young people. A European tour took place in February 2012 to market the album. They came to Germany for four appointments. The concert in the Live Music Hall in Cologne was recorded for television by the WDR Rockpalast . Halestorm and Liberty Lies played as supporting acts . At these concerts they announced their appearance at the Rock am Ring Festival 2012.

Charts

album

For the first time in the history of the band, an album made it into the German charts . In the United States , the album debuted at number 4 with 106,000 units sold.

Chart placements
Charts	Top ranking	Weeks
Chart placements
Germany (GfK)	36 (1 week)	1
Austria (Ö3)	43 (1 week)	1
Switzerland (IFPI)	28 (4 weeks)	4th
United Kingdom (OCC)	18th (1 week)	1
United States (Billboard)	4th (42 weeks)	42

Singles

The first single was Bully on January 3, 2012 . Like all 13 of the band's previous singles, the single was in the top 5 hot mainstream rock tracks in the USA.