CLINT LOWERY Doesn't Try To Predict When SEVENDUST Will End: 'I Think God Will Do That For Me'

In a recent interview with Thinking About Guitar's Jonathan Graham, SEVENDUST guitarist Clint Lowery addressed drummer Morgan Rose's recent admission that he and his SEVENDUST bandmates were discussing the possibility of calling it quits two years ago, prior to beginning work on the group's fifteenth studio album, "One". Asked if SEVENDUST is still considering ending its career at some point in the near future, Clint said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, I think everyone in the band has their own threshold. I'm in a season where my kids are young, they're in high school, very involved in sports. So there things that I've sacrificed so much. Other guys have kids that are out of the house, so they wanna tour more. So we're coming into that part of our career where there may be a time where I'm, like, 'I can't do a whole [tour]. I have to [step away for a bit]' So we respect each other enough to allow that to happen. But I take everything as a tour at a time. I don't try to predict when the end will be. I think God will do that for me."

Clint continued: "I still love playing. Touring is harder than it was. You're an old man. But we see bands… Ronnie James Dio — I'm a giant Dio fan. [IRON MAIDEN's] Bruce Dickinson's still singing great. As long as the quality's there and we're not like a shell of what we were… But honestly, full disclosure, we need to survive. It pays our bills. It's our livelihood, and we love the people, man. I mean, that's a hard thing to give up."

Lowery also talked about SEVENDUST's reputation as one of the most underrated bands in hard rock and alternative metal. He said: "Our fans are loyal and they say incredible things like that. But if you really think about it, and this is my perspective internally, the longevity, that's our legacy. The original members, the fact that we haven't hit these huge peaks, but we haven't hit the lows either, where some bands come and they go. We've had this very stable, sometimes it gets a little high, sometimes it gets... And we rode that wave for almost 30 years. So that underrated, the definition, I think we've been very blessed to remain somewhat relevant in the metal scene and the rock scene, and that's the win. Whatever metric people use, yeah, we'd love to be able to headline arenas and do certain things, but we've come to a place where we're very thankful for what we have. And to be called underrated, that's a compliment. It makes you feel good. We like being the underdogs though, man. We don't mind it. That's what we are. We're a mid-level, very grateful band, and we still care about it. And I think if we would've made it bigger, one of us would've been dead, with the abuse of alcohol and the things that we've done when you're young, you're growing up in this business. If we'd have gotten that success, maybe it would've altered our career in a bad way."

Lowery revealed in early 2025 that he had just completed his first tour as a "saved Christian". He later opened up about how his relationship with Jesus Christ has transformed his life and music. However, Clint was careful to note that although he had found Jesus in his own life, SEVENDUST was "not turning into a Christian band."

This past May, Rose admitted to Stan Bicknell that he and his bandmates were discussing the possibility of calling it quits less than two years ago, prior to beginning work on "One". He explained: "We went through this period of time where we just weren't touring as much. We were kind of thinking that we were gonna land the plane a little bit, like, 'Let's slow it down to a farewell thing,' which we had discussed, for sure. And then some other things happened, and we decided, 'You know what? Instead of parking the car here, why don't we just put it all the way into drive, like all the way in, and let's tour like harder than we've ever toured and just burn the car out. Like, 'Let's tackle things that we haven't done.' So that happened. Just overnight, it was a decision that went from 'We're gonna retire' to 'No, no, no. We're gonna actually put the afterburner on now instead.'"

Asked by Bicknell "what year" it was that these discussions took place, Morgan said: "It was recently. It was, like, a year and a half ago. This was gonna be our last record. We had a blueprint for it and everything. We actually had like a whole layout. It was that thick, of going through everything that we were gonna do and how we were gonna do it. And, I mean, I cried a few times thinking about it."

Rose continued: "We've had so many people that we've met. The SEVENDUST community is a very close thing. We did not have the luxury of a major label or the major label money, so we grinded it from the beginning and then got really mistreated in the middle of our career, like horribly mistreated. And the people stood there long enough for us to get our legs back, and then when we finally found somebody that really knew that we could trust that knew the game and knew how to make it work, we were so beat up. And the people started coming back a little more and more and more, and it just became this thing where it's, like, 'Oh, man. I've known these people from being out there so much.' And when you overtour yourself, you see these people a lot. And they become people you're going to dinner with or going to lunch with, or having coffee with, or whatever it might be. And you're doing it consistently. And then one day you're just, like, 'We're gonna wrap it all up.' And I'm, like, 'That means they died.' Because I never see them outside of this. So that means it'll be like every gig will be another death in the family. It'll be another group of people that I know from that, and I also know from being around them, and it's, like, there's thousands of them. So that's like a thousand people that you care about dying in a year and a half. So I got really emotional about it, and then when it was decided we're not gonna do that, I got just rejuvenated. [I didn't have to] face that now. It got really exciting. I hadn't felt that kind of, like, 'I'm ready to break some shit now. I wanna tear something up.' And we just got back from a two-month run in Europe, and I felt like it was '97 again."

"One" arrived in May via Napalm Records. SEVENDUST once again worked with producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette at Studio Barbarosa in Gotha, Florida. Baskette had previously worked with ALTER BRIDGE and Slash, among others.