SHINEDOWN Guitarist Embarks On Solo Tour, Talks Next Record

March 7, 2011

According to The Pulse Of Radio, SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers has just launched his first solo acoustic tour, accompanied only by friend and fellow singer-songwriter Chris Allen. The trek kicked off last Thursday (March 3) in Toledo, Ohio, and will stretch through the end of the month. The pair play their own songs, some covers, and only a few SHINEDOWN tunes. Myers told Gibson.com, "I can't sing like [SHINEDOWN frontman] Brent Smith. He's the greatest singer on the earth. I can't do what he does, so I couldn't do some of our songs justice. I'll do a couple of SHINEDOWN songs, but not really the singles. Just the SHINEDOWN songs that are my personal favorites."

Myers also shed some light on SHINEDOWN's fourth studio album, which the band is now working on in Los Angeles. He said they have about 14 songs written, but won't begin recording until late summer, with a 2012 release expected.

The guitarist said about the band's songwriting process, "We aren't a band that goes into the studio and makes a record in six weeks. [2008 album] 'The Sound Of Madness' took 24 months to write. Brent has this weird thing when we're writing, we go into the studio, and there are no clocks around; there are no calendars on the wall. He doesn't like to have a time limit on being creative."

SHINEDOWN recently issued a music video for the song "Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)", which was written by the band for the 2010 Sylvester Stallone movie "The Expendables".

"Diamond Eyes" was originally released on iTunes on June 15t, 2010, and to other online retailers on June 21, 2010. "The Expendables" arrived in theatres last August.

The song also showed up on a deluxe CD/DVD reissue of SHINEDOWN's 2008 album, "The Sound Of Madness", which was released late last year.

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