Black Out the Sun (album)
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| Studio album by Sevendust | ||||
| Released | March 26, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | September 2012–October 2012 | |||
| Studio | Architekt Music in Butler, New Jersey | |||
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| Length | 44:23 | |||
| Label | Asylum | |||
| Producer | Sevendust | |||
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| AbsolutePunk | 85% |
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Black Out the Sun is the ninth studio album by American metal band Sevendust released on March 26, 2013.
Black Out the Sun marks the band's first album in almost three years. After concluding touring in support of their eighth album, Cold Day Memory, many of the members spent 2012 working on side projects, with guitarist Clint Lowery and drummer Morgan Rose forming Call Me No One and releasing Last Parade. Concurrently, guitarist John Connolly and bassist Vinnie Hornsby formed Projected and released Human. By the end of the year, the members reunited and began collective work on Black Out the Sun.
Rose stated that the band took the same approach to the album as he and Lowery had with making Last Parade, stating:
"For that album we went in with very little material, and it was really exciting and we had a good time doing it...It was fresh. We didn't over think stuff too much. So we kinda sold the rest of the guys on trying to do it that way. We were maybe a little apprehensive going in, but it worked exactly the way we had hoped. We didn't have any songs, but everybody grabbed their station and kind of picked up whatever needed help or work, and we were able to bang out it with nothing but riffs. It was really from the cuff..."
The exception to this was the band's first single, "Decay", which had a riff that originated from the Cold Day Memory sessions, but the band had waited to finish it for Black Out the Sun, in fear they were too burned out to do it justice originally.
The album was recorded at Architekt Music Studios in Butler, New Jersey. Witherspoon stated that the album's title was chosen due a dream of his, stating, "In the dream, the sun was going away and I was just looking for safety before it happened and not necessarily knowing what would happened [sic] when it blacked out but just knowing that something was scary. I guess it just seems more like the feeling of the unknown."
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