The Sound of Madness - Singles

Singles

The album's lead single was "Devour" and it was released on May 5, 2008. "Devour" was the theme song for WWE Night of Champions on June 29, 2008. It is featured as the title song for MTV's Real World/Road Rules Challenge: The Island. It is also featured on the games Madden 09, Rock Band as a downloadable track, and the song is part of the Shinedown track pack in Guitar Hero 5 along with Second Chance and Sound of Madness. This song also featured in The Final Destination which was released in August 2009.

The album's second single was "Second Chance" and was used in promotion for Season 2 of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. The band performed the song on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on September 5, 2008.

On December 27, 2008, "Second Chance" hit the number one spot on the U.S. Hot Mainstream Rock Chart and held the spot for ten weeks, losing their number-one streak to Nickelback on March 7, 2009. Two months later, the song hit No. 1 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks, making it their first No. 1 on the at chart, and held the spot for 3 non-consecutive weeks. "Second Chance" reached the number one position of Billboard's Hot Adult Top 40 Chart on June 20, 2009.

"Second Chance" is Shinedown's biggest hit to date, being their first single to reach the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100, where it reached No. 7 as of the June 20, 2009 issue.

"Second Chance" was certified as a Platinum single on May 27, 2009, and has since been certified 2x platinum by the RIAA.

The titled track, "Sound of Madness" was released on February 23, 2009 as the band's third single and hit number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Chart in the US. It was used for the Wrestlemania 25 replay on NBC.

"If You Only Knew" was released as the fourth single from "The Sound of Madness" on August 31, 2009, with an accompanying music video released on October 6, 2009. Brent Smith wrote the song about himself and ex fiancé while she was pregnant with their child.

"The Crow & the Butterfly" was the album's fifth single and it received radio airplay on April 6, 2010. Frontman Brent Smith explained on the radio interview program Rockline that while the band were writing the new album, he had a dream about a mother whose son passes away. He wrote the song about the mother dealing with the death of her child and trying to move on.