Corey Lowery | |
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Also known as | Locore |
Born | February 23, 1973 |
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Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
Instruments | Bass, vocals |
Years active | 1989–present |
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Website | coreylowery |
Corey French Lowery (born February 23, 1973) is a hard rock bassist and vocalist, previously of the bands Still Rain, Stuck Mojo,Switched and Stereomud. Lowery currently plays bass and provides backing vocals in the band Eye Empire. Eye Empire was previously known as Violent Plan. Before Violent Plan, Lowery was playing with Dark New Day from 2004 to 2008. He is currently playing bass in Saint Asonia.
In 1989, Lowery with vocalist Donnie Hamby, guitarists Troy McLawhorn and Clint Lowery and drummer Bevan Davies start a new band called Still Rain. Lowery with the band played everywhere from Daytona to Atlanta to Louisville, Kentucky, even as far north as Grand Rapids, Michigan at Club Eastbrook. Mixing multiple sets of covers with their own original music. Doing this, they built up quite a big following. After doing this for a few years, they decided to go all original, producing their first album (they had done tapes before, which sold out quickly) called Still Rain. A second album, Bitter Black Water, soon followed.
After Still Rain, Lowery joined Stuck Mojo. He played bass for Stuck Mojo from 1995 to 1998, playing on their two most successful albums Pigwalk and Rising, before reuniting with them at the end of 2014.
Lowery joined Stereomud after his time in Stuck Mojo. Stereomud consisted of Lowery on Bass, Erik Rogers on vocals, Dan Richardson on drums, and John Fattoruso and Joey Zampella on guitars. Stereomud released their first album, Perfect Self, on Columbia Records in 2001 and a video for the song "Pain" received airplay on MTV2. after being on the Music as a Weapons Tour with Drowning Pool and Disturbed, they went back into the studio, releasing Every Given Moment in April 2003. After participating in the Jägermeister Music Tour with Hed PE, Breaking Benjamin, Systematic, 68rouge and Saliva, Columbia Records cut their touring support, and dropped the band. Due to this, and an impending Life of Agony reunion, Stereomud went their separate ways in July 2003, a mere three months after the release of Every Given Moment.