Sevendust - Black Out The Sun

[SteveO]

Never heard of the band! Nine albums out!...too much for me to keep up with! I'll give em a shot...thanks Music Head!..listening to weird bizarre underground stuff this week...got a list from a buddy to check out!

online listen
ninth album
not sure if I've heard them before
if I did, I blocked it out
they have their growler, but not on all tracks
not my thing but it may be SteveO's
1.1 from me and a converted 2.1 from allmusic

web site - http://www.sevendust.com/

from the album - Till Death
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6K5VJpIURk

released Mar 26th, 2013



Bio - from allmusic

The Atlanta-based quintet Sevendust became one of the rising acts in late-'90s heavy metal with
an aggressive blend of bottom-heavy riffs and soulful, accessible melodies. The band, comprised
of frontman Lajon Witherspoon, John Connolly (guitar), Clint Lowery (guitar), Vince Hornsby
(bass), and Morgan Rose (drums), first appeared in 1995 as Crawlspace, releasing the single "My
Ruin" on the Mortal Kombat: More Kombat recording. Shortly thereafter, the group changed its
name to Sevendust and released a self-titled debut in 1997. Two years later, the bandmates
issued the gold-selling Home and played over 800 shows alongside such groups as Creed, along
with a stop at Woodstock '99. Their angst-ridden third album, the aptly titled Animosity,
appeared in fall 2001, and Seasons followed in 2003.

In late December 2004, word surfaced that Lowery had left the band, and those rumors proved
true the following February when Sevendust announced ex-Snot guitarist Sonny Mayo as Lowery's
replacement. (Lowery, a co-founder of Sevendust, eventually surfaced in the hard rock
supergroup Dark New Day.) Next, Sevendust's fifth album and their first self-produced effort,
appeared in October 2005. The record failed to sell as much as its predecessors, but Sevendust
nevertheless signed to Asylum Records and issued Alpha in March 2007. Alpha fared better than
Next, climbing to number 14 on the Billboard charts and paving the way for the band's seventh
effort. Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow arrived in April 2008, featuring an appearance by former
American Idol star Chris Daughtry, followed by Cold Day Memory in 2010. Their ninth album,
Black Out the Sun, arrived in 2013.

Album Review - from allmusic

Nine albums in, Sevendust continue to assert themselves as one of the heaviest bands of the
post-grunge era with Black Out the Sun. Always ones to keep things on the intense side, they
bring plenty of metal influence to the party, keeping the music as heavy as possible with huge,
chugging guitar riffs and pounding drums, giving the songs the kind of hard edge that some of
their contemporaries just can't touch. Part of this is, as usual, thanks to the considerable
vocal talents of Lajon Witherspoon, whose soulful and dynamic vocal performance is able to
inject just the right amount of emotional weight into the music no matter how heavy it might
be, allowing the bandmembers to really go all out rather than lightening things up to avoid
stepping on their frontman's toes. With the exception of "Got a Feeling," the album's lone
diversion into power ballad territory, Black Out the Sun maintains a nice level of aggression
throughout its 13 tracks, and though Sevendust don't really reinvent the wheel here, ragers
like "Till Death" and "Decay" bring plenty of the alt-metal heroics that fans have come to
crave. While it would be possible to accuse the band of standing still all these years, Black
Out the Sun is such a solidly constructed album that it's hard to fault these guys for doing
what they do best and giving the people the kind of skull-crushing hard rock that they're
asking for, and just as we don't blame the birds for flying, we shouldn't blame Sevendust for
making killer tracks like "Murder Bar."

Track Listing

1. Memory
2. Faithless
3. Till Death
4. Mountain
5. Cold As War
6. Blackout the Sun
7. Nobody Wants It
8. Dead Roses
9. Decay
10. Dark AM
11. Picture Perfect
12. Got a Feeling
13. Murder Bar