Seasons | ||||
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Studio album by Sevendust | ||||
Released | October 7, 2003 | |||
Recorded | Ruby Red Studios & Brannon Studios Atlanta, Georgia |
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Genre | Alternative metal, nu metal, hard rock | |||
Length | 43:54 | |||
Label | TVT | |||
Producer |
Butch Walker Sevendust Jay Jay French Jeff Hanson Steve Gottlieb |
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Seasons is the fourth studio album by American heavy metal band Sevendust. It would be the band's final album with TVT Records and was dedicated to the memory of Reginald Witherspoon (Lajon Witherspoon's younger brother) and Dave Williams (Drowning Pool's original singer), the former was murdered in November 2002 and the latter died of cardiomyopathy in August 2002.
Seasons was, for a time, the band's last album with Clint Lowery as he left in 2004. Lowery would return to Sevendust in March 2008.
A limited edition of Seasons was released. This includes a DVD featuring "Black" (live and acoustic) and other special features.
In an unusual choice, Butch Walker was chosen to produce the band's fourth album. Although Walker had produced some demos for the band in their early years as Crawlspace, he had a largely pop-oriented résumé. In a 2003 interview, guitarist John Connolly described the album's overall approach:
Connolly also compared Seasons to the band's previous albums:
In retrospect, Morgan Rose has described Seasons as too commercial. This was due to Sevendust's loss of creative control with TVT Records thinking that Seasons should be suitable for radio airplay. He noted in an interview, "When we finished our touring cycle for Seasons, and our number one priority was to figure out a way to get out of the record deal that we had been stuck in for quite a while. Once we finally got out, our next priority was not to be stuck in the same position as far as creative control and to be able to make a lot of the musical decisions on our own."