Song · Shinedown
“Devil” by Shinedown
From the album ATTENTION ATTENTION (2018)
“Devil” by Shinedown appears on 9 radio countdowns from 9 stations between 2018 and 2025. It was first released in 2018 on the album ATTENTION ATTENTION. Its best result is #1 on the WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #185 alternative song of 2018 and #7,751 alternative song of all time.
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Shinedown kicked off the Attention Attention campaign with "Devil", released on March 7, 2018, as the first taste of their sixth album. Brent Smith wrote it with bassist Eric Bass, who ran the show from the console too, producing, engineering and mixing it while also playing bass and acoustic guitar. Zach Myers adds guitar and piano, Barry Kerch plays drums, and Smith sings lead over backing vocals from Bass and Myers.
Alternative Press heard the lyric as a plunge into the core of fear, and the hard rock around it hits with matching force. Bill Yukich, lead editor on Beyoncé's Lemonade, directed the video, which also carries the intro track "The Entrance". The song went to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart, then found second lives on the WWE 2K19 soundtrack, picked by Baron Corbin, and in the Apex Legends season 3 trailer.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 40 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2018 | 99 |
| 2018 | 5 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2018 | 30 |
| 2018 | 1 | 93.3 WMMR Philadelphia, PA | WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2018 | 25 |
| 2018 | 2 | 94.3 KILO Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO | KILO 2018 Top 30 Kountdown | 30 |
| 2018 | 6 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018 | 98 |
| 2018 | 14 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2018 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 66 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
| 2019 | 500 | 94.3 WCYY | WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) | 500 |
| 2025 | 85 | 94.1 WJJO | WJJO Frequent Rocker Top 100 Songs of 2025 | 100 |
Also listed as: DEVIL.
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