Sevendust – Lajon Speaks About New Disc “Alpha”
SEVENDUST’s new album, “Alpha”, hits stores March 6, and it’s the follow-up to “Next”, their first album without former guitarist Clint Lowery. The band has a new label, Asylum, who is distributed by Warner Brothers.
In fact by the time the band finished its tour in support of “Next”, vocalist Lajon Witherspoon and drummer Morgan Rose said there was no record deal with Wine Dark records anymore.
“We got off the road and didn’t have a record deal that we planned on having. So things were definitely out of order, but we were able to focus and do what we needed to do and began to write an album that is now Alpha. When we got halfway done with our album cycle we realized that the people that we had signed with before were basically gone. They weren’t doing anything. So we were trying to get out of that deal from almost the minute the record came out. We were already looking at cracks and places where we could get out of there, and finally by the end of that album cycle we were able to get out. So we were free again. The good side of it was we were free, and the bad side was we had no deal again. So we had to go and we were trying to think of what we wanted to do, whether we wanted to get a label to come look at us — not like we had to showcase, they knew what we were about anyway — or do another record on our own without anybody telling us what to do and shop it as is and that’s what we chose to do.”
SEVENDUST will be hitting the road this February with DIECAST.
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