WHAT THE FUCK ARE SEVENDUST DOING TO THEMSELVES?
Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 at 11:21am by Vince Neilstein
After years of mis-management, losing a key songwriter / founding member, and a string of mediocre but decent enough albums, things were looking up for Sevendust. They weathered the storm of the nu-metal fallout to emerge unscathed by the critical backlash to beset pretty much every other band to whom that term ever applied. They’re set with their own label imprint through WMG’s Independent Label Group, they have a new album coming out a mere year after the last one, and they signed on to headline one of the side-stages at this Summer’s Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour. Yes, Sevendust were poised for a new start; and now they go and fuck it it all up.
Sevendust has committed one bone-headed business move after the other in recent months. First came the news that they were having country star Chris Daughtry and Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge guest on their new album, Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow. Talk about desperation. I mean there’s nothing wrong with expanding your horizons, but having an American Idol and a guy who sings with the dudes from Creed; um, who thought THAT one up? There goes their metal cred down the tube, whatever was left of it.
Then they dropped off the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour, citing “changes in the group’s touring schedule.” In recent years Sevendust has completely avoided package tours or support of any kind, much to their detriment. While package tours may pay less than their own tours and support gigs may be a blow to the ego, both serve that ever-critical function of refreshing their fan-base. Meanwhile Sevendust’s audience has dwindled, precisely because they haven’t brought in new fans at all, to the point where they needed to downsize a recent show in NYC from a 3,000 capacity to 600 capacity venue. Rockstar Energy was the perfect opportunity to revitalize their aging fan-base, to introduce the band to the fans of Mastodon, Dragonforce, and others, not to mention re-introduce them to fans of Slipknot and Disturbed who may have lost track of Sevendust along the way. But then they pulled out of the tour, quite possibly the most retardo move ever… what else could they possibly have on the table that’s better?
Sure as hell couldn’t be the tour with Saliva that they just announced, could it? Yes, Saliva, the band who wrote “Click, Click, Boom,” — one of the most annoyingly wretched songs of the 21st century — and then turned into a pseudo-sleaze/hard-rock revival band like their fellow former-nu-metal brethren Papa Roach. Yeah, that band, the one that approximately 31 people nationwide give a shit about in the year 2008. A tour with fucking Saliva.
Look, I appreciate the band’s integrity and high standard of stage production, and I get why they want to headline their own shows instead of play festivals. But they’re slowly burying themselves with these business moves that fail to introduce them to new fans. Sevendust better have something else or a damn good album up their sleeves — or rather, both. Or they’re fucked.
-VN
this band sucks and should just go away. I’ve had enough of them and their big bonehead songs.
Sevendust used to be a great take. My favorite show of theirs was the Tattoo the Earth show at a Dog track north of Boston, where they were sandwiched in between Sepultura and Slayer. Opening(?) for Saliva is a long way from there. Sevendust’s albums haven’t been interesting since Animosity, and that’s a shame.
crickets
THANK YOU. SO FUCKING MUCH. As a Sevendust fan, they were a main reason for me to go to the Mayhem tour. I haven’t bought an album since Clint left to join that boring band with his brother. This tour will be the nail in the coffins of their career(s).
Myabe the drummer being in that “supergroup” with the 4 bassists had something to do with it
Alter Bridge is better than Sevendust.
if Sevendust ceased to exist I’m sure the men’s room at the Studio City McDonald’s would be filled to capacity for the fans mourning their loss, beyond that, I can’t imagine too many others giving a shit.
First off, SEVENDUST did NOT ‘downsize’ the show in NYC….Iwas ther e and 3,000 seat venue had a water leak and it flooded the whole place. They moved it to gramercy Blender theater cuz its ALL that was AVAILABLE in a 2 day notice and yes its only 6-700 but it was slam packed and tons of people were turned away at the door due to capacity. Sevendust is doing what the fuck they want and this tour will be good with or without you there. As far as the PapaRoach comment…if no one cared then why did they have one of the biggest songs in rock in 2007? Damn those 31 people must of been requesting 24/7 and spent their life savings on buying only Roach records…………moron. Get with the program!
yay now i wont have to stab my eardrums with q-tips at that mayhem festival. just one more shitty band off the tour, i wonder who will replace them, hopefully a good METAL band, not this nu-metal hardrock shit
These guys have made quite a few interesting business moves in recent years…whatever happened to Winedark Records? It seems like they have been flailing around pretty hard for the last few years to no avail…its a shame because they have some pretty cool songs stashed in the catalog.
more crickets….
Listen you little fucks, none of yopu know somthing good when its in front mof yoy, you nwant screaming and yelling and cant understan a fucking thing these band sing, any body can scream and yell in to a microphone. And i give alot of these band resapect, i may not like them but i fucking respect them, and i defently respect Sevendust, one of the true honest bands out ther,Listen you little puppy dogs who think you know but you dont,I am old school metal and ther is a diffrence we were all about the party and having ma good time going nto a good concert, getting nsome pussy and having fun and all you little fucks know how to do is jerk of your buddys play gutair hero cause yor afraid of playing a real gutair . play somke on the water on a beat up acostic or stair way to heaven and then you will understand,Open your minds stop the hate.
You fucking idiots. Chapter VII is there “Best Of”.Granted, Prodigal Son is pretty weak. It’s a radio song. But other than that this is the best thing they’ve done since their first one. This album actually displays their full range(From screaming metal to pure beauty). But then, after reading the various posts on this site, are any of you “True metal heads” a day over twelve. I’ll be honest, I’m only on this site because I’m drunk and was typing in random song lyrics. But Chapter VII has barely left my cd player since it came out. I’m still guessing most of you havn’t heard anything other than “Prodigal Son”. You’re just a bunch of whine ass cunts still living in mommy or daddys basement waiting for your other nut to drop. Call me a liar.
saw them opening for ozzy (in aussie hahaha)
boring as shit band.
and every single guitar solo was just a wah happy wankfest of wah
Does anyone know why they have never toured in Canada?