SEVENDUST has set
"Black Out The Sun" as the title of its ninth album, tentatively due in April 2013. The CD was recorded at
Architekt Music studios in Butler, New Jersey with engineer
Mike Ferretti.
"The craziest thing about this record is finishing it in about a month," guitarist
John Connolly tells
Revolver magazine. "We haven't done that since our debut album [1997's self-titled effort]. This is one of the fastest records we've ever made, but also one of the strongest — working off instinct mostly."
According to
Connolly,
SEVENDUST's forthcoming CD finds the band exploring "a darker vibe," but "there's still plenty of melody," he adds. "The record fits right in with
'Animosity' [2002],
'Alpha' [2007], and our self-titled album. Lots of heavy stuff and some more mellow, moody songs as well It's a nice balance of what makes for the
SEVENDUST sound."
Songtitles set to appear on the 12-track CD, which was produced by the bandmembers themselves, include
"Mountain" and
"Murder Bar". The latter was reportedly inspired by a Butler, New Jersey bar across from the hotel where
SEVENDUST was staying while recording the new CD. Rumor had it the place was popular with many of New Jersey's murderers.
"It's a basic
SEVENDUST record," guitarist
Clint Lowery recently told
"Source Of The Sound With Wendy Campbell". "There's nothing, like, too completely different than anything we've done before. It's got a darker vibe to it. We've got a good amount of the programming element in there. It's a lot of what we do — it's heavy and it's got its melodic element in it. So if you're a
SEVENDUST fan, it's more along the lines of the second and third records we did — it's kind of like that. It's got a couple of throwback vibes to it.
'Animosity' and
'Home' [1999], if I can put those two records together, it would [sound similar to the new CD]."
SEVENDUST's last CD,
"Cold Day Memory", sold around 27,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 12 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The band's previous effort,
"Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow", opened with 25,000 units back in April 2008 to land at position No. 19.
"Cold Day Memory" was released on April 20, 2010 on the band's own
7Bros. Records, through
Warner Music Group's
Independent Label Group.
