Amaryllis by Shinedown

Amaryllis, Shinedown's fourth studio album, arrived on March 27, 2012, through Atlantic in America and Roadrunner everywhere else, with the single "Bully" sent out ahead of it on January 3, the day the record was first unveiled. Rob Cavallo, who had steered The Sound of Madness, produced again, spreading the sessions across Lightning Sound Studios, Ocean Way Recording, No Excuses Studios and Capitol Studios.

The Jacksonville band had settled into its lineup by now, Brent Smith singing, Zach Myers on guitar, Eric Bass on bass and Barry Kerch on drums, and the record sounds like a band that knows exactly what it is: big post-grunge choruses and hard rock muscle, polished to a stadium gleam. Smith pitched it as a message of empowerment and perseverance. The wrestling world bit: "Adrenaline" became the theme for WWE's Extreme Rules in 2012, and "Enemies" served as the WWE Raw theme from 2016 into 2018. "Unity" was the second single, and the album went gold in the US and Canada.

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