SEVENDUST DEBUTS ON BILLBOARD CHART AT NUMBER 14

Sevendust’s new album Alpha debuted on the Billboard chart at Number 14, making it the band’s highest debut position ever. The band sold 42,000 records in its first week, and it wasn’t their biggest selling debut week.

Sevendust’s Alpha is their sixth album, and singer Lajon Witherspoon and drummer Morgan Rose — with bandmates John Connelly and Vince Hornsby off to the side — were asked if the album was crucial to survival of the band.

[Rose] “Well we’ve never had an issue with that. Somebody asked me if we ever thought about breaking up and I was like that’s never come up. That’s never been a thought. It’s never been, ‘the band is going to break-up.” [Witherspoon] “It’s too damn late to try and start something new.” [Rose] “That’s for sure. We’re like the Grateful Dead almost. I think Alpha is crucial to selling records for us.” [Witherspoon] “It’s great.” [Rose] “I think people are rooting for us a little right now. It’s weird. There’s a different feel about it. This is a different feel. It’s like, ‘These guys, seriously, they’ve gone through a lot, and they’re still going for it.’ And this is a record that’s worth giving a shot to. I feel like we’re dropping it on the table and going, ‘Are you going to make this happen, or are you going to make this happen?’ We’re coming again, the sixth time around and I think people are coming around to say, ‘If we can do somethi

Rose and Witherspoon shared with us what the concept is on the title of the collection, Alpha.

“Well, the concept of the record is a two headed monster, having a battle within ones mind, so it’s the good and evil side of things.” [Witherspoon] “We are the Alpha Male.” [Rose] “It’s like looking at it like you’ve got the fight club mentality. If you want to use that concept, that’s pretty much what it is. Which part of your mind, the good side or the bad side is really going to end up being the Alpha. Is the good side going to get through or are you going to end up losing to the bad side? Either way, there’s something that’s the overriding power going on inside the battle, so that’s where the Alpha title came in.”

Sevendust is hitting the road hard, and current dates extend to April 29 in Port St. Lucie, Florida.