Attention Attention World Tour

Devil Take-Over

One wet, cold and wintery day in Cardiff, I, Brent Smith and my band Shinedown went to play an awesome concert at the motor point arena. We started playing a familiar song, Sound of Madness to the start of the show, the crowd went wild. We introduce ourselves; I start by introducing myself as Brent, the crowd screamed, I loved the attention. I had always wanted to be famous, it was dream to be on the stage in front of thousands of people screaming my name. We play Boomlay and we talk to the audience, telling them stories and funny jokes from previous shows. The crowd go wild when we play Cut the Cord then we play Ill follow you before a break in the music and the audience are full of excitement.
I return, full of adrenaline and pumped for the rest of the show. I led the songs, FTrack and Bully off the stage and into the crowd. As I start the song Devil, I can hear the beat of the drums and the strum of Zach’s guitar, I feel strange, there’s a cold dark feeling in the air. I’m not feeling myself, I feel myself leaving my body, there is someone attacking me. The crowd scream, this scream is not good, they sound scared. I’m rising up but I can see my body dropping to the ground in a slump. My soul has left my body, the band continue to play Kill Your Conscience, I see my body rise from the floor, but it isn’t me. My body has been taken over and there is nothing I could do, I am watching my body play my music. My band finish with the words, “It’s never goodbye it’s just until next time.”