Sevendust

This article is about an American musical group. Under the same name was also a computer virus known which infected 1,998 Apple computers a year.

Sevendust
General information
origin	Atlanta , Georgia , United States
Genre (s)	Alternative metal , alternative rock , nu metal
founding	1994 as Rumblefish
Website	www.sevendust.com
Current occupation
singing	Lajon Witherspoon
Electric guitar	Clint Lowery
Electric guitar	John Connolly
Electric bass	Vincent "Vinnie" Hornsby
Vocals, drums	Morgan Rose
former members
Electric guitar	Sonny Mayo
Electric guitar	Lee Banks

The American band Sevendust at the Nova Rock Festival (2009)

Sevendust is an American metal and rock band from Atlanta , Georgia that formed in 1994 under the name Rumblefish .

history

Bass player Vince Hornsby and drummer Morgan Rose played in a band called Snake Nation in 1994. After an appearance with the R-'n'-B band Body and Soul, both became aware of their singer Lajon Witherspoon. The three then decided to start their own band together. A short time later, drummer John Connolly and guitarist Lee Banks joined the cast. The group then called themselves Rumblefish. In addition, the Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French became aware of the band and became manager of the group. In the meantime the group was renamed Crawlspace. She then went to New York City to hold her first concert. As a result, the concert organizer of the Rock Ridge Saloon became aware of the band and finally booked them, although he had previously declined their request.

In August 1995 the band recorded their first demo before further appearances followed. Meanwhile, Lee left the band and was replaced by Clint Lowery . The band then went to the studio with French and his former Twisted Sister bandmate Mark Mendoza as producers to record new material. The resulting song My Ruin was included on the sampler Mortal Kombat: More Mortal Kombat for the film of the same name . Since another band was already called Crawlspace, the group had to change their name to Sevendust shortly afterwards. The name came from Hornsby, who found a can of pesticide called " Sevindust " in his grandmother's garage . Singer Lajon Witherspoon made "Sevindust" "Sevendust", "because seven is a sacred number and we are all made of dust".

In April 1997 the debut album of the same name followed on TVT Records , of which only 300 units were sold in the first week and only 1,000 units after a month. After TVT Records made a half-hour clip about the newcomer available online, the band was able to quickly increase their popularity, which means that the album sold another 500,000 times in the following weeks and thus fulfilled the American gold criteria. The album went gold the same day Morgan Rose learned he was expecting a baby with his wife. The publication also followed appearances, including with Powerman 5000 and Coal Chamber in New York.

In September 1999 the second album Home was released , which allowed the band to increase its popularity in Europe . The album was produced by Toby Wright ( Korn , Alice in Chains , Primus , Fishbone ) and mixed by Andy Wallace ( Nirvana , Helmet , Rage Against the Machine ) and featured guest vocals by Deborah Anne Dyer of Skunk Anansie and Chino Wong Moreno of the Deftones . The band met Dyer at the Wisconsin Metal Festival. For the song Licking Cream , in which she was heard, she and the band made a music video together. The release followed over 300 concerts in the next 18 months, with which the band had already held a total of 800 concerts in four years and performed with Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien and played with Creed and performed at Woodstock in 1999 Festival , participated in the Vans Warped Tour , and played Ozzfest in 2000 .

After a short break, the third album Animosity followed in the summer , with the song Angel's Son dedicated to the late Snot singer Lynn Strait and the song Follow Aaron Lewis von Staind as a guest musician. The album produced by Ben Grosse ( Filter ) reached number 28 on the US album charts. In early 2002, the band was featured on the soundtrack to the film The Scorpion King with the previously unreleased song Corrected . In March 2002, the band was also on the sampler WWF Forcible Entry from Columbia Records with the song Break the Walls Down (Chris Jericho's theme) to hear. In the summer of 2002 the band played on the Locobazooka, in which bands such as Filter, Earshot , Nonpoint , Mushroomhead , Reveille , Audiovent , Dry Cell , Mad at Gravity and Dragpipe also took part. The single Live Again was released in August . In September and October the band played as the opening act for Creed. In April 2004 Sevendust went on a US tour with Trust Company , Project 86 and Finger Eleven .

After further concerts, the next album Seasons followed in 2003 , which had been mixed by Jay Baumgardner and reached number 14 in the US album charts. In August and September the band went on tour with Element Eighty and Presence . In March 2004 the band toured Australia with Sunk Loto and Full Scale . The Southside Double-Wide Acoustic Live CD / DVD set followed in the same year . The album reached position 90 on the US album charts. Towards the end of the year, Clint Lowery left the band to devote himself to other band projects. Sonny Mayo (Snot, Amen ) came to replace the band, while the management and the record label also changed.

The band then began recording their next album, which was released at Roadrunner Records in Europe at the end of October 2005 under the name Next , was produced for the first time by the band itself and should reach number 20 in the US charts. The album sold over 41,000 copies. In April the band went on a tour of the US with Skindred . In November followed a tour together with Mudvayne , Bobaflex and 10 Years . In early 2006, the compilation Best of Chapter One (1997-2004) followed , which contained four new songs as a bonus. These included a cover version of Marvin Gaye's Inner City Blues and School's Out by Alice Cooper . In January the band began a two-week tour of the United States with Nonpoint, Socialburn , Wicked Wisdom and One. In March the band went on tour through Europe with Staind and Panic Cell . A tour planned for June 2006 had to be canceled because the former record company canceled the previously agreed support act. At the beginning of June the band played at the download festival .

At the end of June the band announced that they were working on their next album. A tour with SOiL had to be canceled because the guitarist Connolly had broken a hand. The band then worked on their next album and only played individual appearances. At the end of February 2007 the band went on tour together with Bloodsimple and Diecast . Meanwhile, the album Alpha appeared on their own label 7 Bros. Records. The album reached number 17 on the US charts. In November, the compilation Retrospective 2 , the second part of the best-of publications , was released in the USA . Alpha was also released in Germany in mid-December . In the meantime the band wrote on more songs and held various tours, whereupon the next album called Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow was released in April 2008 . Then was American Idol participant Chris Daughtry heard as a guest musician. After the release, Mayo left the band, after which Lowery returned to the band. In March 2009 the band went on tour through North America with Black Label Society .

In 2010, the next album, Cold Day Memory , was released before Clint Lowery and Morgan Rose formed a side project called Call Me No One . The next album, Black Out the Sun, followed in 2013 . In spring 2014 the album Time Travelers & Bonfires was released . On October 2nd, 2015 the album Kill the Flaw was released . The song Thank You , which was released as a pre-single, was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Metal Performance in 2016 .

style

According to Daniel Bukszpan in his book The Encyclopädia öf Heavy Metal , the band plays aggressive, groove- oriented and soulful metal, typical of the 1990s, with down-tuned guitars , comparable to the music of Creed, with Sevendust being differentiated by what he sees as a better singer . Witherspoon's voice covers the areas of soul , rock and nu metal, according to Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer . Martin Popoff was also positive about the vocals in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . On the self-titled album, the band mainly relies on power chord alternative metal, comparable to the music of Godsmack, as a basis and then adds nu-metal and industrial metal influences. On Home , the band has improved compared to its predecessor and sometimes plays rhythmically complicated riffs that are reminiscent of industrial, grunge and the band Korn.

Joel McIver wrote in his book The Next Generation of Rock & Punk Nu-Metal that the band is often compared to groups like Korn and Deftones. Christian Graf also drew a comparison to the two bands in his book Nu Metal & Crossover Lexicon and described the music on Home as a “mixture of the hardest riffs , funk and old school heavy rock”. For Andreas Herz from Rock Hard the transitions from rage-against-the-machine-like to melodic-ballad-like structures were too rough. Carsten Agthe from Eclipsed called Sevendust a "ricochet from Soundgarden , Korn and Alice in Chains". According to Matthias Weckmann from Metal Hammer , the band combine hardness with animosity with clear vocals. In addition, the band with Disturbed is one of the most precise rhythm and riff masters of the genre . According to Morgan Rose in an interview with Armin Schäfer from Metal Hammer , “rhythmic, angular experiments from earlier albums” would be a thing of the past on Seasons .

Martin Popoff and David Perri wrote in their book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s about Animosity that typical Nu Metal, with rugged rhythms, long refrains and artificial rap can be heard on the sound carrier . At Seasons the band turned even more to nu metal and even a little bit of pop music , with the melodic vocals still being the band's trademark. They rated the album Next positively, although it was also daring to release a Nu-Metal album at the time. Songs like Desertion would sound like a mix of Mudvayne and Coal Chamber, while elsewhere you would be reminded of Machine Head . In addition, the band occasionally tends slightly towards metalcore . On Alpha it can be seen that the group has now recognized that Nu Metal is out of date, so that Sevendust, like Papa Roach , has moved to "Radio Rock". On Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow the band copied the riffs from Jeff Loomis ( Nevermore ), so that the album sounds like a mainstream-oriented Dead Heart in a Dead World , while the vocals are reminiscent of Killswitch Engage . According to Salmutter, the band on Next has not developed any further compared to its predecessors. The group moves on the album between modern rock and nu metal. According to Weckmann, Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow is a "mixture of a full wall of rhythm, fat distorted guitars and the unique soul voice of frontman Lajon Witherspoon". The Nu-Metal band is also "one of the toughest bands in the genre".

In the metal hammer interview between Armin Weber and Morgan Rose, John Connolly and Clint Lowery, the members stated that they had worked together on music and lyrics. In the texts, one often deals with personal problems and experiences. For example, the song Coward , written by Lowery, deals with the death of singer Witherspoon's brother, who was shot in Nashville by a stranger after a verbal argument. According to laut.de, the song Enemy , which was written by drummer Morgan Rose, was about Dez Fafara ( DevilDriver / Ex-Coal Chamber), the former band boss of Morgan's wife Rayna Foss-Rose.

Discography

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Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		CH	US
1997	Sevendust TVT Records	-	US165 gold (16 weeks)US	First published: April 15, 1997 Sales: + 500,000
1999	Home TVT Records	-	US19th gold (14 weeks)US	First published: August 24, 1999 Sales: + 500,000
2001	Animosity TVT Records	-	US28 gold (12 weeks)US	First published: November 13, 2001 Sales: + 500,000
2003	Seasons TVT Records	-	US14 (6 weeks) US	First published: October 7, 2003
2005	Next Winedark Records	-	US20 (1 week) US	First published: October 11, 2005
2007	Alpha Asylum Records	-	US14 (7 weeks) US	First published: March 6, 2007
2008	Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow Asylum Records	-	US19 (1 week) US	First published: April 1, 2008
2010	Cold Day Memory Asylum Records	-	US12 (1 week) US	First published: April 20, 2010
2013	Black Out the Sun Asylum Records	-	US18 (1 week) US	First published: March 26, 2013
2015	Kill the Flaw Asylum Records	-	US13 (1 week) US	First published: October 2, 2015
2018	All I See Is War Rise Records	CH59 (1 week) CH	US28 (1 week) US	First published: May 11, 2018

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7. ↑ Michael Schäfer: Sevendust . Video shoot with skin. In: Metal Hammer . January 2000, p. 11 .
8. ^ ^{A b c d} Christian Graf: Nu Metal & Crossover Lexicon . Lexikon Imprint Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-89602-515-5 , p. 256 f .
9. ↑ ^{a b} Armin Weber: Start of the season . Sevendust. In: Metal Hammer . November 2003, p. 41 .
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14. ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 393 .
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16. ^ Carsten Agthe: Sevendust . Best of (Chapter One 1997-2004). In: Eclipsed . No. 80 , March 2006, p. 53 .
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18. ^ Armin Schäfer: Sevendust . Back in the spotlight. In: Metal Hammer . May 2003, p. 132 .
19. ↑ Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 436 f .
20. ↑ Elmar Salmutter: Sevendust . Next. In: Metal Hammer . November 2005, p. 106 f .
21. ^ Matthias Weckmann: Sevendust . Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow. In: Metal Hammer . June 2008, p. 104 .

Web links

• Official website (English)
• Sevendust at laut.de