In a brand new interview with Heavy New York, SEVENDUST singer Lajon Witherspoon spoke concerning the significance of evolving musically on every successive album, significantly on the band’s newest effort, “Reality Killer”. he mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We positively experiment, particularly on this album. You positively can see that from the programming. We form of went actually outdoors the field, which is enjoyable. And I really feel like on the level of our profession proper now, we’re sufficiently old, we have been round lengthy sufficient that every thing does not need to all the time be, like, … ‘Trigger you all the time have these guys, ‘Oh man, they don’t seem to be heavy anymore.’ No, we’re seven thousand years previous. We do not have to be the heaviest band on this planet. [Laughs] We have grown. We now have youngsters. Life adjustments.”

He continued: “We have grown up as artists, and I really feel just like the SEVENDUST household has grown with us they usually’ve allowed us to alter. I really feel like it could be foolish to have every thing sound the identical, since you would simply get bored with it. It’s a must to experiment. It’s a must to develop. With something that you just do. I do not care if you happen to labored at McDonald’s, the place I used to work at after I was a child, you continue to needed to develop. You needed to do one thing totally different within the spot that you just have been in. You continue to need to evolve. And I really feel the identical means with the music and I really feel like we have been in a position to do this, particularly with this album too.”

Witherspoon beforehand talked about SEVENDUST‘s musical experimentation in an interview with Hollywood Soapbox. He acknowledged on the time: “That is why we felt secure with placing out the primary teaser with a track like ‘I Would possibly Let The Satan Win’, what I imply. Folks have been like, ‘Oh my God, what is going on on? You guys going to actually do this?’ … We’re not afraid at this level to place our music out. Earlier than it was like, you had an entire group of individuals, ‘Man, you guys are usually not heavy anymore.’ Sure, we’re. Sure, however we have grown. We have developed. We now have youngsters, wives. Different issues encourage. We’re not these youngsters that did not have duty that simply toured on the tour bus and the one factor we needed to do was write music. There’s a variety of various things happening now that encourage that will help you write issues, and you must have that in life. I feel if you happen to’re doing the identical factor on a regular basis, you’ll be able to’t have good issues to put in writing about which are actually actual. We now have to have actual experiences.”

“Reality Killer” was launched on July 28 through SEVENDUST‘s new label house, Napalm Data. The follow-up to 2020’s “Blood & Stone” was as soon as once more tracked at Studio Barbarosa in Gotha, Florida with producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette, who has beforehand labored with ALTER BRIDGE and SLASH, amongst others.

“Reality Killer” showcases the unique and present SEVENDUST lineup, comprised of Witherspoon, Clint Lowery, John Connolly, Vince Hornsby and Morgan Rose.