The Sound Of Madness

For this writer, Shinedown’s third album symbolises everything that’s wrong with mainstream hard rock at the moment. Full of compressed, lazy riffs and lame melodies, Shinedown’s corporate cheese-fest is about as dangerous as a two-week-old three-legged kitten. Before they treat us to a follow-up, we’d like to give them some advice. Listen to a Poison Idea record to see just how it’s done. The Sound Of Madness? Well, you could say that...