Review Summary: A great album that had hardly any eyes layed on
Amaryllis was anticipated to be a huge flop for Shinedown's career. With Leave A Whisper, Us And Them, and The Sound Of Madness all being major commercial success, many thought this would be a giant step backwards. This is why not many bought this album. The problem is that you can't just not buy the next whatever only because the first was so great. Ignore snickers of doubters, but it's true. A lot of people bought Us And Them after Leave A Whisper. So anyways, back to the review, those who actually listen to this have a lot of praise to say about this record. With great songs like Bully, Unity, and Enemies, this album was just as great as their last three.
Adrenaline kicks off the album, which even went on to be the theme for the 2012 WWE's Extreme Rules. Soundwise and lyrically, this song is amazing. A great beat, great sound, and very well crafted lyrics. The record goes on with Bully, and it's interesting, because this is the first track we hear with heavier riffs and a more fierce voice from Brent Smith. However, this song doesn't offer really too much, with slowly progressive sounds and passable lyrics. Of course, it gets attention for being about bullies deserve pain and punishment, but their sould be more to it.
The problem with this album is that there are a couple songs on here like I'm Not Alright and My Name that take forever for you to actually enjoy them. I'm Not Alright has a weak intro, followed by forced sounds from Barry, Eric, and Zach. It's not choppy, no, but it sounds too forced. And of course, hook. This one of the very few Shinedown songs where all we can really like is the sounds, ignoring the lyrics.
On the bright side, there are some songs here like Unity, with amazing lyric writing and amazing sounds. Nothing goes wrong there. So overall, this album is excellent, but if a little more effort went into all the songs, this could have been a classic album, and, this will surprise perhaps all readers, better than Sound Of Madness. Sadly it isn't. Instead, it is just an underrated album that is claimed to have a hella errors, when there isn't.
