Claude says:Shinedown's commercial peak arrived as a five-piece for their third record, released in 2008 after a drawn-out eighteen months of internal chaos (Smith fired the drummer and bassist mid-process). The album's all over the map lyrically — anti-war rants, love ballads, grief over a dead uncle — and it worked: two platinum singles, one multi-platinum. You played "Sound of Madness" once in June 2017 and never circled back.