Sevendust have been cooking up new music for the follow-up to their fourteenth album 2023’s “Truth Killer“. The band’s vocalist Lajon Witherspoon recently chatted with Loudwire Nights of his gold-certified alternative metal/nü-metal band’s progress with their next opus, offering (transcribed by Blabbermouth.net):
“Yes, things are in the works… We are now looking inside the Sevendust music box with 20 or so songs that we’re kind of weeding through right now to see what we like, [that] we’re gonna work with this. And these are the cats in the band that are writing stuff and sending it in and put it into the box.”
“Honestly, I feel like our best work is when we get together in a room in a setting when we are with the instruments, just those young men like we were when we first started. That’s where the magic happens. So we’re already in the making of coming to the farmhouse. [We’re] just trying to figure out a date in between, ’cause we’ve got a lot of stuff to do. Even after the Disturbed run, I think we only have a week off before we get on the Creed cruise.
But, yes, we are writing an album. Even on the road, when we get on the bus, which I can’t wait to get on the tour bus, we’ll be out there, we’ll be listening to tracks and stuff and probably going over things if we have time at soundcheck to play new music. So, yeah, it’s rolling right now… So there’s new music [in the works], yes.”
In the same conversation, Witherspoon also spoke of his forthcoming solo material he’s been working on recently. He in part said of that:
“It doesn’t get too far away from Sevendust. I feel like it’s the soulful, rock, R&B, country type of stuff that I’m doing, but it’s all over the spectrum of music that I like. I will be sharing that very soon.”
As they are known to, Sevendust indeed have a busy run on the road ahead of them for the coming months, with the below shows lined up.
With Disturbed (celebrating 25 years of “The Sickness“) & Three Days Grace 2x:
02/25 Nampa, ID – Ford Idaho Center Arena
02/27 Denver, CO – Ball Arena
03/02 St. Louis, MO – Enterprise Center
03/04 Milwaukee, WI – Fiserv Forum
03/06 Minneapolis, MN – Target Center
03/08 Chicago, IL – United Center
03/10 Detroit, MI – Little Caesars Arena
03/12 Louisville, KY – KFC Yum! Center
03/14 Boston, MA – TD Garden
03/17 Washington, DC – Capital One Arena
03/19 Montreal, QC – Centre Bell
03/21 New York, NY – Madison Square Garden
With Horizon Theory:
02/28 Kansas City, MO – The Truman
03/01 Bloomington, IL – The Castle Theatre
03/07 Green Bay, WI – Epic Event Center
03/11 Millvale, PA – Mr. Smalls Theatre
03/15 Atlantic City, NJ – Tropicana Showroom
03/16 Stroudsburg, PA – Sherman Theater
03/22 Virginia Beach, VA – Peabody’s
03/23 Myrtle Beach, SC – House Of Blues
03/25 Huntsville, AL – Mars Music Hall
03/26 Destin, FL – Club LA
03/28 Little Rock, AR – The Hall
03/29 Springfield, MO – Gillioz Theatre
Sevendust:
04/09-13 Summer Of ’99 And Beyond Cruise
04/25 Tucson, AZ – Pima County Fair
04/26 Las Vegas, NV – Substance
04/27 Reno, NV – Grand Theater
05/08 Columbus, OH – Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival
05/18 Daytona Beach, FL – Welcome To Rockville
07/18-19 East Troy, WI – Summer Of ’99 And Beyond Festival
