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Pieces

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Daughtry

Daughtry backstory

Debut long player, the self-titled Daughtry, was the top-selling album of 2007 and was the fastest selling rock debut album in Soundscan history.

The record was nominated for four Grammy awards, won four American Music awards, and seven Billboard Music awards — including Album of the Year. 

Follow-ups Leave This Town (2009), Break The Spell (2011) and Baptized (2013) have all gone Platinum with 2018’s Cage To Rattle certified Gold.

In 2021, the band released Dearly Beloved with singles World On Fire, Heavy Is The Crown and Changes Are Coming all cracking the Top 10.

Following yet another Top 10 success with 2023’s cover of Journey’s Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) — featuring Halestorm’s Lzzy Hale — Daughtry dropped debut Big Machine Records single Artificial.

The return to the band’s rock roots scored the band their first number one single in the Active Rock format, laying the groundwork for their new EP set for release later this year.

In Daughtry’s own words

“At some point in our lives we will all experience trauma of some kind — something that chips away at the essence of who we are.

“Sometimes it’s an event so devastating that it shatters our reality and rips a hole through our soul.

“This is about finding the strength to pick up those broken pieces, face the darkness head on and fight your way toward the light.”

The verdict on Pieces

A shattering blast of Shinedown-styled heavy rock, Pieces perfectly sums up where Daughtry’s heading in 2024.

This is a band in no mood to trade on past glories and a keen sense of ‘fuck you’ runs right through this urgent, unforgiving single.

Lyrically and musically it’s a brave move: will Daughtry devotees really relate to the disturbing narrative and biting riffs?

Only time will tell.

But after previous single Artificial landed the band a first number one single in 15 years it’s little wonder this is a five-piece reborn.

Pieces is both self-reflective and self-confident. 

It’s a fiery return to form that’s not for the faint-hearted.

What’s next for Daughtry

The band’s new EP — featuring Artificial and Pieces — is due to drop this autumn.

Daughtry hits the road with Breaking Benjamin for a US tour starting this spring.

Images by Darren Craig