Early in 2007, producer Rob Cavallo asked Shinedown frontman Brent Smith about his goals for the band's new album.Smith didn't hesitate."I said, 'You know what -- when I'm dead and gone, when everybody in this band has passed or what have you, I want the world to remember this as a record that needed to be made, and that there was a reason for it,' " Smith says."That was the motivation behind this album.”"And part of the reason it took so long to make!"Welcome then to THE SOUND OF MADNESS, Shinedown's third album -- and the Florida rockers' boldest effort to date.

A major military and civilian deepwater port, the city is the site of two United States Navy bases and the Port of Jacksonville, Florida's third largest seaport.

But lately he's been talking about a girl he refers to as his "lady" and when he posted the pic of him and his lady..

It was the merch girl and if you look on Zachs Twitter, he states that Brent isn't married.. Posted some stuff and his fiancé saw or heard about it and this was a way of covering it up.

However, after one listen, it’s clear that the band didn't shrink from the task.

Where THE SOUND OF MADNESS differs most is in its growth; it’s the product of a group that has developed an even clearer vision for how it wanted to impact an audience."Lyrically, these songs are the most blunt that I've ever written," says Smith, who formed Shinedown with drummer Barry Kerch in 2001 in Jacksonville, Fla.