We present to fans of experiments in merging heavy metal with alternative rock the creativity of a group called Sevendust.
Sevendust. Historical reference.
Sevendust is an American metal band formed in 1992 in Atlanta (Georgia, USA). The band performs alternative metal music. To date, Sevendust has released variously successful twelve studio albums, one live and two compilations.
Later we will move on to the biography of the band, but for now here are some of the most interesting tracks of the group.
The story of Sevendust dates back to 1992, when bass guitarist Vince Horseby and Morgan Rose, who played drums, left the band Snake Nation and decided to create their own project. At first the group was called “Crawlspace”. Later they were joined by Lyon Witherspoon (vocalist), guitarist Lee Banks and another guitarist, John Connolly. Banks, however, almost immediately left the group, and Clint Lowry took his place. In the summer of 1996, the band signed a contract with TVT Records.
Sevendust discography
In 1997, the group's first album of the same name was released. Literally all the tracks on the album are oversaturated with profanity, which is why Yandex.Music marks them with the “E” symbol. All the songs in the collection are ideal for CrossFit or weight training. Let's listen:
The band's second album, Home, was released in 1999 and immediately reached number 19 on the Billboard 200. Chino Moreno (Deftones) and Skunk Anansie participated in the preparation of this album. That same year, Sevendust appeared at the Woodstock 1999 festival, where they also featured bands such as Korn, Nonpoint, Reveille, Megadeth, Godsmack, Mudvayne, Powerman 5000, Machine Head, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed and Metallica.
By the end of 2001, a third long-play, Animosity, appeared on store shelves, which subsequently reached number 28 on Billboard. The album was produced by Aaron Lewis of Staind. Two songs from this album, Angel's Son and Live Again, had videos shot, and the singles Praise and Angel's Son took positions 15 and 11 on the Modern Rock Chart.
In our opinion, the albums “Home” and “Animosity” are not very successful; perhaps only the track called “Praise” attracts attention: listening to it, you involuntarily recall the soundtracks from the best versions of shooters of the early 2000s. It is better not to try to translate the songs of these two albums into Russian, so as not to experience culture shock.
In the fall of 2003, together with tvt label The fourth album, “Seasons,” was released, which today is considered one of Sevendust’s most commercially successful albums: it debuted on the Billboard charts immediately at 14th position, and in the first week of sales, about 70 thousand copies of this album were sold out. Like the group’s previous works, it is replete with calls for unnatural forms of sexual activity with opponents, the words “shit”, “ass” and their derivatives from the “B” list.
The fifth album, “Next,” was released in October 2005 and became one of the biggest events in the alternative music scene in the fall of 2005... In the United States, this energetic album debuted at number 20, selling about 37 thousand copies in the first week album. One of the album's tracks, the song "Pieces", was included in the soundtrack to the film Saw 2 (which is not surprising). Let's listen to this cheerful song, and then reality will seem much better than before.
Sevendust's sixth album, entitled "Alpha", was released on March 6, 2007. The album debuted at No. 14 in the US (currently Sevendust's record) and sold over 42.000 copies in its first week. In the same year, the group, together with Diecast, went on the longest tour in the history of Sevendust (10 weeks). What attracts attention in the album is the track “Driven,” which is well made from a technical point of view.
Later the collection Retrospective 2 was released, which included songs that were not included in the albums, some recordings from concerts, as well as the bonus track The Rim from the album Alpha.
The seventh studio album, Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow, was released in April 2008 and debuted at number 19 on Billboard. The song “The Past” certainly stands out in the entire album, performed in a style completely uncharacteristic of the group.
The band's eighth studio album, titled "Cold Day Memory", was released in the spring of 2010. Our interest in this album was aroused by the almost romantic track “Last Breath” with the leitmotif that “nothing changes in this broken world when I pray for it.” Let's listen:
The ninth studio album “Black Out The Sun” was released on March 26, 2013. At the same time, a video clip for the single “Decay” was posted online. The twelve-track album “Time Travelers & Bonfires” was released in 2014. It is distinguished from previous Sevendust works by enviable melody and a much lower degree of aggressiveness. Actually, it comes out with the label “nu-metal”.
The penultimate (to date) album entitled “Kill The Flaw” was released in 2015, and only three years later - in May 2018, the band pleased fans with the new collection “All I See Is War”. We pleased you with several songs from it at the very beginning of this article.
At the end of the material, we cannot help but suggest watching the latest Sevendust video on the official channel of the Riserecords label called “Medicated”.
