Shinedown bassist Eric Bass has introduced his debut solo album, titled Eric Bass Presents: I Had a Title. Billed as an idea album, it’s set for a February twenty eighth launch alongside an accompanying graphic novel.
The video for the lead single “Thoughts Management” is out now and presents the primary glimpse on the undertaking and its overarching story, self-described as an “epic odyssey.” Musically, the monitor sees Bass veering from the hard-rock sound of Shinedown for a extra glam-rock/dance-punk sound that places his vocals entrance and middle.
“We’re following this character Devaren as he’s speaking about his disdain for the inhabitants and the way he can’t stand them, however on the finish of the music he has this reflective second the place he truly regrets all the pieces he’s been doing,” Bass mentioned of the monitor’s lyrical content material. “The fascinating factor in regards to the characters on this story is that they characterize a distinct a part of my neurodivergence and psychological well being journey.”
He continued, “In ‘Thoughts Management,’ Devaren represents the melancholy that has crept into my life through the years that I didn’t see coming. I simply needed to personify that in a personality so in ‘Thoughts Management’ it has taken over, however finally in our story it will likely be defeated.”
The album itself was written, recorded, and produced completely by the Shinedown bassist/co-songwriter. Discussing the LP’s idea, Bass mentioned that the inspiration for the story got here to him whereas he was in a resort room in Milan, and he then spent two hours placing pen to paper as he plotted out the “synopsis for a prequel to the story” informed on the album.
“I’ve spoken about my struggles with melancholy and neurodivergent points earlier than,” Bass acknowledged within the press launch for the album. “After I completed scripting this report, I appeared again at these characters I’ve created and realized I’d written probably the most autobiographical report of my life, which wasn’t acutely aware as I used to be writing it.”
He added: “I’m at all times about honesty in artwork. After I hearken to one thing, I wish to hear that the individual dug into the grime and bled for it to occur. The reality at all times prevails.”
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Eric Bass Presents: I Had a Title Art work:
Eric Bass Presents: I Had a Title Tracklist:
01. A World Unseen
02. The New Gods Of Battle
03. Azalia
04. We Can’t Go Residence
05. Goodnight Goodnight
06. Thoughts Management
07. New Graves
08. All Good Kids – Our Guts
09. Modenhardt
10. Useless Inside
11. The Church buildings Of The Useless
12. Wanna Go To Hell