SEVENDUST FINDS NEW HOME FOR ALPHA

Sevendust once again finds itself with a new label home and the new album, Alpha, lands in March.

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, and unlike past years it wasn’t a bidding war.

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.

[Lajon] “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.” [Morgan] “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 bame 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 o

The duo said that there was some good to come out of their situation.

“It was a tough record to write, but it was a lot of fun to do.” [Lajon] “We got to record the record at home at Treesound studios, and that was a pleasure to be at the studio and go home each night and then come back. It keeps the home at heart.”

Sevendust is rehearsing for their tour in New Hampshire, and the tour will actually kick off in Ft. Wayne, Indiana on February 8. Dates are currently booked through March 19 in Chicago.