Sevendust
Sevendust is an American alternative metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. The … Read Full Bio ↴Sevendust is an American alternative metal band from Atlanta, Georgia. The band was formed in 1994 by bassist Vince Hornsby, drummer Morgan Rose and guitarist John Connolly. After their first demo, lead vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and guitarist Clint Lowery joined the group. Following a few name changes, the members settled on the name Sevendust and released their self-titled debut, Sevendust, on April 15, 1997.
The self-titled debut sold 311 copies its first week. However, through touring, and TVT support, the album gained charting success through Billboard and earned gold certification.
Bassist Vince Hornsby joined drummer Morgan Rose in 1994, in a band called Snake Nation. John Connolly, a drummer, left his current band and joined Snake Nation as a guitarist. They recorded their first demo. Not happy with vocals, however, Snake Nation spent a year searching for a new singer before finding Lajon Witherspoon. Six months passed, Clint Lowery joined the band and they renamed themselves Rumblefish.
Rumblefish was short-lived, however, because they found another band with the same name. They renamed themselves Crawlspace, and released My Ruin on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack album entitled More Kombat through TVT Records in 1996. Shortly after, another band named Crawlspace sent notice that they wanted $50,000 for the rights to their name. Rather than purchase the rights, the band members chose to rename themselves Sevendust.
Sevendust released their self-titled debut on April 15, 1997, known for its heavy riffs, angry vocals and thrash-like drumming, as the songs Black and Bitch. Black was the opening song for nearly every Sevendust concert until 2004. The debut album also contains the song My Ruin, from the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Sevendust appeared on the Billboard 200, remained there for sixteen weeks and peaked at 165 on April 4, 1998. The album went gold on May 19, 1999.
In 1998, Sevendust performed at Dynamo Open Air (May 29–31) and Ozzfest 1998 (July through August). In the same year they released a compilation called Live and Loud which featured live footage of the bands September 16, 1998 performance at Chicago's Metro.
On August 24, 1999, they released their second album, Home. The album peaked at 19 on the Billboard 200 and featured Skin from Skunk Anansie and Chino Moreno from Deftones as guest vocalists. The two singles from the album, "Denial" and "Waffle", gave the band moderate chart success, and the latter of which was played on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien show. They appeared in Woodstock 1999 and have toured with many bands such as Korn, Staind, Nonpoint, Reveille, Godsmack, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Powerman 5000, Creed, Kid Rock, Machine Head, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, and Metallica. In 1999, they gained European exposure by opening for Skunk Anansie at various shows in Germany. They also opened with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent for Metallica on New Year's Eve in 1999 at the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit, Michigan. They also joined Slipknot, Coal Chamber and other bands on the Tattoo the Earth Tour in June 2000.
In November 2001, the band released their third album, Animosity. This album went gold and gained the band commercial success thanks to the success of singles "Praise" and "Angel's Son", which peaked at 15 and 11, respectively, on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. "Angel's Son" was a tribute to Lynn Strait, the lead singer of the band Snot, whom the members of Sevendust were friends with. Strait had died in a car accident in 1998. In addition to being included on Animosity, the song was included on the compilation album Strait Up. The band made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman playing an acoustic version of "Angel's Son" featuring Paul Shaffer on keyboards.
In the same year Sevendust was seen in the Chris Rock movie Down to Earth as a partial clip of "Waffle" is played.
Another friend of the band, Dave Williams the lead singer of Drowning Pool, died in 2002. Tragedy would strike again when Lajon Witherspoon's younger brother was shot and killed later that year. Due to his death, Sevendust went on hiatus in 2002.
In 2003, Sevendust returned with their fourth album, Seasons. The album debuted at #14 in the US, selling around 68,000 copies in its first week. This was one of the band's best received albums and to date features their highest charting single (tied with "Driven"), "Enemy," which peaked at #10 on the Mainstream Rock Chart. "Enemy" was made the official theme song for WWE Unforgiven 2003. Other singles released from the album, "Broken Down" and "Face to Face," met with more moderate success charting at 20 and 22, respectively.
In 2004, for the first time in the band's career, they released a live album on a CD/DVD double disk package titled Southside Double-Wide Acoustic Live. Both the CD and the DVD include a cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails which is dedicated to Johnny Cash.
On December 11, 2004, after playing a show in Columbus, Ohio, it was announced that Clint Lowery had left the band mid-tour, because he wanted to play with his brother Corey Lowery in his new band Dark New Day, who had reportedly just signed with Warner Bros. Records. A replacement was found for the rest of the dates and was eventually replaced by Sonny Mayo from Snot and Amen. At roughly the same time, Sevendust and TVT Records parted ways.
On March 26, 2008, Sevendust announced that Clint Lowery, former guitarist and vocalist for the band, had quit his duties as guitarist for Dark New Day and would be returning to the Sevendust lineup in place of Sonny Mayo. On Lowery's return, Morgan Rose stated "This was extremely tough considering Sonny is our brother and has been amazing to work with. [Sonny] didn't do anything wrong at all; we just owe it to ourselves and all the folks that grew up with us to put our original band back together."
Since formation, Sevendust has released fourteen studio albums, earned additional charting success and gold sales certifications. Their eighth studio album, titled Cold Day Memory was released on April 20, 2010. More recent studio albums include: Black Out the Sun, released on March 26, 2013, Time Travelers & Bonfires, released on April 15, 2014, Kill the Flaw, released on October 2, 2015, All I See Is War, released on May 11, 2018, Blood & Stone, released on October 23, 2020 and Truth Killer, released on July 28, 2023.
They also re-released their self-titled debut album as Sevendust: Definitive Edition which contains five new tracks and a DVD.
The self-titled debut sold 311 copies its first week. However, through touring, and TVT support, the album gained charting success through Billboard and earned gold certification.
Bassist Vince Hornsby joined drummer Morgan Rose in 1994, in a band called Snake Nation. John Connolly, a drummer, left his current band and joined Snake Nation as a guitarist. They recorded their first demo. Not happy with vocals, however, Snake Nation spent a year searching for a new singer before finding Lajon Witherspoon. Six months passed, Clint Lowery joined the band and they renamed themselves Rumblefish.
Rumblefish was short-lived, however, because they found another band with the same name. They renamed themselves Crawlspace, and released My Ruin on the Mortal Kombat soundtrack album entitled More Kombat through TVT Records in 1996. Shortly after, another band named Crawlspace sent notice that they wanted $50,000 for the rights to their name. Rather than purchase the rights, the band members chose to rename themselves Sevendust.
Sevendust released their self-titled debut on April 15, 1997, known for its heavy riffs, angry vocals and thrash-like drumming, as the songs Black and Bitch. Black was the opening song for nearly every Sevendust concert until 2004. The debut album also contains the song My Ruin, from the Mortal Kombat soundtrack. Sevendust appeared on the Billboard 200, remained there for sixteen weeks and peaked at 165 on April 4, 1998. The album went gold on May 19, 1999.
In 1998, Sevendust performed at Dynamo Open Air (May 29–31) and Ozzfest 1998 (July through August). In the same year they released a compilation called Live and Loud which featured live footage of the bands September 16, 1998 performance at Chicago's Metro.
On August 24, 1999, they released their second album, Home. The album peaked at 19 on the Billboard 200 and featured Skin from Skunk Anansie and Chino Moreno from Deftones as guest vocalists. The two singles from the album, "Denial" and "Waffle", gave the band moderate chart success, and the latter of which was played on the Late Night with Conan O'Brien show. They appeared in Woodstock 1999 and have toured with many bands such as Korn, Staind, Nonpoint, Reveille, Godsmack, Mudvayne, Mushroomhead, Powerman 5000, Creed, Kid Rock, Machine Head, Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, and Metallica. In 1999, they gained European exposure by opening for Skunk Anansie at various shows in Germany. They also opened with Kid Rock and Ted Nugent for Metallica on New Year's Eve in 1999 at the Pontiac Silverdome near Detroit, Michigan. They also joined Slipknot, Coal Chamber and other bands on the Tattoo the Earth Tour in June 2000.
In November 2001, the band released their third album, Animosity. This album went gold and gained the band commercial success thanks to the success of singles "Praise" and "Angel's Son", which peaked at 15 and 11, respectively, on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. "Angel's Son" was a tribute to Lynn Strait, the lead singer of the band Snot, whom the members of Sevendust were friends with. Strait had died in a car accident in 1998. In addition to being included on Animosity, the song was included on the compilation album Strait Up. The band made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman playing an acoustic version of "Angel's Son" featuring Paul Shaffer on keyboards.
In the same year Sevendust was seen in the Chris Rock movie Down to Earth as a partial clip of "Waffle" is played.
Another friend of the band, Dave Williams the lead singer of Drowning Pool, died in 2002. Tragedy would strike again when Lajon Witherspoon's younger brother was shot and killed later that year. Due to his death, Sevendust went on hiatus in 2002.
In 2003, Sevendust returned with their fourth album, Seasons. The album debuted at #14 in the US, selling around 68,000 copies in its first week. This was one of the band's best received albums and to date features their highest charting single (tied with "Driven"), "Enemy," which peaked at #10 on the Mainstream Rock Chart. "Enemy" was made the official theme song for WWE Unforgiven 2003. Other singles released from the album, "Broken Down" and "Face to Face," met with more moderate success charting at 20 and 22, respectively.
In 2004, for the first time in the band's career, they released a live album on a CD/DVD double disk package titled Southside Double-Wide Acoustic Live. Both the CD and the DVD include a cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails which is dedicated to Johnny Cash.
On December 11, 2004, after playing a show in Columbus, Ohio, it was announced that Clint Lowery had left the band mid-tour, because he wanted to play with his brother Corey Lowery in his new band Dark New Day, who had reportedly just signed with Warner Bros. Records. A replacement was found for the rest of the dates and was eventually replaced by Sonny Mayo from Snot and Amen. At roughly the same time, Sevendust and TVT Records parted ways.
On March 26, 2008, Sevendust announced that Clint Lowery, former guitarist and vocalist for the band, had quit his duties as guitarist for Dark New Day and would be returning to the Sevendust lineup in place of Sonny Mayo. On Lowery's return, Morgan Rose stated "This was extremely tough considering Sonny is our brother and has been amazing to work with. [Sonny] didn't do anything wrong at all; we just owe it to ourselves and all the folks that grew up with us to put our original band back together."
Since formation, Sevendust has released fourteen studio albums, earned additional charting success and gold sales certifications. Their eighth studio album, titled Cold Day Memory was released on April 20, 2010. More recent studio albums include: Black Out the Sun, released on March 26, 2013, Time Travelers & Bonfires, released on April 15, 2014, Kill the Flaw, released on October 2, 2015, All I See Is War, released on May 11, 2018, Blood & Stone, released on October 23, 2020 and Truth Killer, released on July 28, 2023.
They also re-released their self-titled debut album as Sevendust: Definitive Edition which contains five new tracks and a DVD.
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Sevendust Lyrics
Aggression Sickening, the things that I see Can't stop my mind from…
Alpha Just move You never were there (when I needed you) Where wer…
Angel Life is changing I can't go on without you Rearranging, yeah…
Assdrop Again I try and change my ways Something for some reason T…
Beautiful 200 miles per hour That's how fast I seem to…
Beg to Differ Slow down Slow down I lived a life with no regrets…
Bender MUSIC:SEVENDUST Lyrics: MORENO / Lowery / Rose / Witherspoon…
Better Place Hold on we try to live a dream We lose the…
Bitch I can't imagine to be like you the pain and suffering you pu…
Black Voices call, they call out my name, (my name, my…
Black Out the Sun Screamin’ at the sky again I can’t blame you for this…
Blood From A Stone If what you needed, isn't what you wanted It's been…
Bonfire My hands are tied to the evil This soul is greed…
Born to Die I can't believe This is happening to me Born to die Boxed to…
Break the Walls Down Come on. You know I got you. Break the wall down. Break t…
Breathe (Wait) I remember the water now I'm drowning, it's so lowl…
Broken Down It takes time, to heal the wound I've Made along the…
Burn (rescue me) from this mistake I'm in Who knows the path…
Burned Out Stick around to see the ugly look on my face You…
Cease and Desist The story of you Undersold living proof A man truly dies bef…
Cheers Securing now All the times we bled, all the ones we…
Chop On my way to a dark horizon, struggle is my…
Clueless Scared to look ahead Instead I fold my arms waiting The tr…
Cold As War Signs of doubt That keeps me rushed And far from grounded Yo…
Come Down I guess for now I'm gonna up and run away My…
Confessions Impossible to reason with the thoughts in mind To direct, to…
Contradiction I learned a lesson on my first day. You were far…
Corrected Sun went down, it seen your life It was over Discuss, disgus…
Coward So you're slick you little cheap bitch you run for cover…
Crucified So much pain to ease my simple mind No hope…
Crumbled So sick I can't swallow So green I can't follow So weak…
Damaged Didn't you hurt yourself Couldn't you wash the blood away…
Dark AM I take the broke down, rundown Worst day I ever had Beats…
Dead Roses Beg and pleading Why don't you feed another lie You can cl…
Dead Set Stuck in my bedroom with nothing But a voice in…
Death Dance Plastic scars, The deep cut devours who you are, The line br…
Deathstar We love you, we love you Walkin' tall you stand up…
Decay Warned, the voices I hear have warned me The deepest lies…
Denial What, never say what you mean All I hear is a…
Descend We've seen [?], we'll drink the moon We choose the sides…
Desertion Stick it in my face and let me see the…
Dirty I'm no stranger To this thing called war Just a person starv…
Disease stuck my head in the sand Cut my face to hell There…
Disgrace I remember almost every time I felt love Descend down and…
Disgust While missing all the [?] Ask the question every now then In…
Driven Stop the man From endin' up with all the chips so…
Dying to Live We're cold, immune to the abuse What other price to pay? The…
Enemy Step up to me, step up to me You want to…
Enough I don't wanna leave a blood stain, I just need to…
Everything I shut down I'd rather be left out I used to need…
Face Don't tell me now with a smile on your face That…
Failure Focus on a new way A new day has begun for…
Faithless Don't run away The gift of life is never promised for…
Fall You hate my face but now I look You're gonna change…
Fear Seems as though you're here again Even so this day won't…
Feed I erased you From my every waking memory I replaced you With…
Feel MUSIC:SEVENDUST Lyrics: LOWERY / Rose / Witherspoon / Connol…
Fence Collect the blood until it's empty Bury the truth until it's…
Follow Time can take everything that surrounds you You can break…
Forever I feel my life has been forsaken And I've been taken…
Forget Swallow your pride and denial The worthless hours I'm giving…
God Bites His Tongue Face down, in me-me-me you'll find a weakness Holding it dow…
God Bites His Tounge Face down, in me-me-me you'll find a weakness Holding it do…
Going Back To Cali I'm going back to Cali Cali Cali I'm going back to…
Gone Another day away from home another trip To kill another plac…
Got a Feeling I got a feeling coming on Life is taking way too…
Grasp You look for love Though eyes of strangers Pitiful you go aw…
Grasshopper I don't know what I've been told The green grasshopper Got a…
Headtrip Forever after You killed my laughter All I've done Doesn't m…
Here and Now Send somebody, somebody soon I'm feeling tired All torn up a…
Hero (Feel it) Stop drop roll get up take a crack at…
Holy Water I feel a darkness inside It's buried deep but alive Why do…
Home Wreckage, my mind Insecure, all the time Once loved, now par…
Honesty It's not supposed to hurt this much but it can…
Hope I woke today To the strangest thing I have to say Reminded m…
Hope featuring Mark Tremonti I woke today To the strangest thing I have to say Reminde…
Hurt I hurt myself today, To see if I still feel,…
I Am I am, I′m me Who are you to look down At what…
I Might Let the Devil Win Don't you want Just a little taste of blood Oh, but you…
Inner City Blues Dah, dah, dah, dah Dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah, dah Dah,…
Inside Pleased to meet the mother fucker With the first slug. Expe…
Karma I may have made some mistakes That cost me more than…
Kill The Flaw Suck it It tastes so wrong it burns (Inside of me) I thought…
Last Breath So do I really believe? Caught up and twisted She's hardly…
Last Song (not one thought for us but did you really think) Something…
Leave Hell Behind My life (my life) not long (not long) I'll die in…
Leech What are you saying? Did you forget yourself? You feel the…
Letters If you could see inside of me See my conflicted world It's…
Licking Cream Corrupt my hope In joyous hell Between the lines Lick the cr…
Life Deceives You I found a hoping doubt As I was on my way So…
Lifeless I wanna hold you up, To let you see yourself. I'm sick…
Live Again Feeling Nothing Lonely Empty You try to walk away but…
Losing You Wake up to another day Seems like today was yesterday Lookin…
Love I'm your life (your life) and death (and death) The end…
Medicated It takes time to blow Say it ain't so Stuck in the…
Messenger Time left alone The pity that follows us all here What's rig…
Moments I hold on Just long enough to watch the pages turn You…
Mountain Under the dark grey sky Under fist and hate I break the…
Murder Bar Scrape that blood off your face Life's ripping away your fai…
My Ruin 1st verse Inside my shadow I can hear you am I…
Never Feeling days with empty space Wasting my time I've shown I'v…
No Revolution Let go, let karma find it Don't tell yourself another…
Nobody Wants It Straight throught and time is ticking Pushed out, no one lis…
Not Original I sorta like deceiving And all this tragic loss I wanna find…
Not Today transcend we try to rip the shell away into the void without…
Nowhere Is this the life you made The kind of life you…
One Life Another ? day dreaming of a crowdless face Need ya lover…
Peace and Destruction I know this is wrong You say the word, I'll be…
Picture Perfect I think the last was the first time I thought you'd…
Pieces Walk that crooked line, I see you try to beat the…
Praise What did you expect? Fools often sometimes forget Who real…
Prayer I remember praying, yeah, yay With you I remember praying Wi…
Prodigal Son Passing through this life with so much regret It feels like…
Rain So alive, so wrong Never thought it could be all gone I…
Reconnect Here we all are standing here (Slave me) Embrace me I try so…
Redefine Just sit down right here in front of me I'll…
Ride Insane Uncertain I ride to calm myself I'm searchin' for something…
Risen Don't run, calm down Been standing, feeling for me Burn down…
Rumble Fish Again I try & change my ways Something for some reason Takes…
Rumblefish Again I try & change my ways Something for some reason Tak…
Scapegoat I for one will say I haven't seen it All I…
School's Out No more pencils No more books No more teacher's dirty looks …
Seasons Every time Every time Every time Every time Every time the …
See and Believe What was I searching for? In god I trusted To heal all…
Separate Could I be the only one here The one and only…
Sevendust Even if it wasn't right Cryin every single night Nothing y…
Shadows in Red Shadows In Red Lyrics Lookin out the window of pain I see…
Shine This is the last time I will talk to you…
Sick Mouth I take everything I have I take every single moment from…
Sickness I'm cutting away my skin I'm washing away the blood I find…
Silence We're gonna do a song called silence! I love you guys…
Silly Beast So if my eyes are sewn Just let me be Don't say…
Skeleton Song I'll stay right here With all these familiar faces And shuto…
Sleeper I'm ashamed of me I look at what you've done for…
Sorrow I'm the only one That sings the same old song. I know…
Speak Whenever I feel like It's all in my mind I'm walking, I'm…
Splinter In your space, I felt lesser than human A slave Pushed down…
Story of Your Life Express what you think it is I wanna hear Only time…
Strong Arm Broken The stare that cuts through me Burning a hole in me Giving…
Suffer Slip and give a fake Let you feel a little stronger My…
Suffocate Hate all the blood on my hands And the sins that…
Superficial Drug I haven't felt like myself for awhile It's so hard to…
T.O.A.B Tell me something cause I don't know If that look's…
T.O.A.B. Tell me something cause I don't know If that look's…
Terminator I can go way back In my mind This music thing Was…
Thank You So, help me to see You need a chance to come…
The Day I Tried To Live I woke the same as any other day Except a voice…
The End Is Coming I see the last parade unfold I try to understand (the…
The Last Song (not one thought for us but did you really think) Something…
The Past Beneath the water That's falling from my eyes Lays a soul I'…
The Rim Welcome to a world Of eternal shame Where everything you do …
The Truth No more time for saving What the hell did you give What…
The Wait I'm lost inside a dream, alone I'm hurt when all is…
This Life I heard your heartbeat And my body grew so still I looked…
Till Death Fractured, slowly, closing on me The scars define the man My…
Tits on a Boar Die you piece of shit! Die you piece of shit! Die you…
To Close To Hate 1st verse Fear inside I need someone To bind my time…
Torched Shake the walls with Subtle madness Burning out just for and…
Trust When I hold my head down to the ground And…
Truth Killer Hold me like water Heal me with pain You chase the demon Rig…
Ugly Things you've done have set you back in time, I think…
Under Fallin' down under the cracks And now, I cannot make a…
Under It All And I can follow footsteps Can drive far enough to see…
Unforgiven (Why?) What's inside of the beast Tell me now what you…
Unraveling I need an answer Some way to understand This feels so convin…
Upbeat Sugar Hand over fist, I've been out here so long Kill the…
Waffle A universe to fill Can't scratch the surface Now a slow pay …
Walk Away You can't ever accept your fight so What's the point of…
What You See Is What You Get What you see is what you get now Xzibit never wait…
What You've Become And now for something to see Watch them gather around We are…
Will It Bleed Confusion perception Rage inside of me Will it ever take me …
Wired 1st verse Lock my door Close my blinds I want to be myself …
Won't Stop the Bleeding I'll let your little white lie go My deceiver in…
X-mas Day One step in the dark Touch her hand just to…