THREAT TO SURVIVAL 02/03/2023 and atmospheric songwriting

and atmospheric songwriting

Oscar Brashear

Originally released in 2003 and reissued in '05 (shortly before the band's major label debut)

TracksCredits - Disc 1 - 1 Can I Tell You 2 The Absence of Presence 3 Throwing Mountains 4 Crowded Isolation 5 Summer 6 The Voyage of Eight Eighteen 7 Icarus II 8 The Coming Dawn (Thanatopsis) 9 Distant Vision 10 The Wall 11 Dust in the Wind 12 Desperate Times 13 Under the Knife - Disc 2 - 1 Fight Fire with Fire 2 End of the Age 3 Incident on a Bridge 4 Play the Game Tonight 5 Crossfire 6 Windows 7 Hold on 8 Loner 9 Curtain of Iron 10 No One Together 11 On the Other Side 12 Angels Have Fallen 13 How My Soul Cries Out for You - Disc 3 - 1 Carry on Wayward Son 2 Portrait (He Knew) 3 Sparks of the Tempest 4 Miracles Out of Nowhere 5 Magnum Opus: Father Padilla Meets the Perfect Gnat / Howling at the Moon / Man Overboard / Industry on Parade / Release the Beavers / Gnat Attack 6 Icarus - Borne on Wings of Steel 7 Child of Innocence 8 Down the Road 9 Song for America 10 The Devil Game 11 Death of Mother Nature Suite 12 Belexes 13 Journey from Mariabronn Genre: Rock

while the band overall is more focused and less indulgent

THREAT TO SURVIVAL 02/03/2023 and atmospheric songwritingThe fifth studio long player from the Jacksonville, Florida based hard rock unit, Threat to Survival is also Shinedown's most pop oriented set of songs to date. Front loaded with two of its hardest hitting (and classic sounding) cuts in "Asking for It" and the hefty first single "Cut the Cord," both of which are as hook laden as they are bruising, Threat to Survival begins to detour from the post grunge highway with "State of My Head," a slick amalgam