Even then, I don't spend much time on it because I literally live my life day by day. I never went to rehab, I didn't do a 12-step programme, and I don't talk about sobriety unless I'm asked about it. I've always been very honest about it, which is that I didn't do drugs today – and I didn't drink today – but I don't know what I'll do tomorrow, because I literally have to take it day by day. It's something I deal with on a daily basis. 'Everyone who knows a bit of my background with regard to substance abuse and alcoholism knows that I've battled with it. Smith states that the song was influenced by his past struggles with alcoholism and substance abuse that he struggled with around The Sound of Madness era of the band, stating: Themes and composition Īttention Attention is a concept album, that, from beginning to end of the album, 'charts the life of an individual protagonist from excruciating lows to searing highs”, with the track appearing at the mid-point of the album. On July 2, 2019, the band released an animated video for the song. The band teased a music video for the song as early as July 2018, though one wasn't released until June 2019. As of June 2019, it had reached number two on the chart, and it topped it for a week in July. In April 2019, Billboard noted that the song had become the band's twenty fifth top-ten song on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart.

The song was released in March 2019, as the third single from the band's studio album Attention Attention, after ' Devil' and ' Get Up'. 'Monsters' was nominated for iHeartRadio's rock song of the year award. Upon reaching number one on the Mainstream Rock, Shinedown moved into second place for the most Mainstream Rock number ones with fourteen songs. It reached the top of the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in June 2019. It was their third single from their sixth studio album Attention Attention. ' Monsters' is a song by American rock band Shinedown.

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