SEVENDUST: New Video Interview With LAJON WITHERSPOON Posted Online

GetInMagazine.com's Lisa Kart conducted an interview with SEVENDUST frontman Lajon Witherspoon when the band played this year's 98 Rockfest on April 24 at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida. Watch the chat below.

According to Hits Daily Double, the companion web site of music industry tip sheet HITS, SEVENDUST's new album, "Cold Day Memory", is on track to sell between 30,000 and 35,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release.

SEVENDUST's last album, "Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow", opened with 25,000 units back in April 2008 to land at position No. 19 on The Billboard 200 chart.

"Cold Day Memory" was released on Tuesday, April 20 on the band's own 7Bros. Records, through Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group. The CD — produced by Grammy Award winner Johnny K (DISTURBED, STAIND, 3 DOORS DOWN, PLAIN WHITE T'S) — is the group's first new album with its original lineup back together with guitarist Clint Lowery's return after his departure in 2003.

While SEVENDUST's last few efforts were mainly heavy and rhythmic, the new songs balance brutality with textural passages and infectious counter-melodies. There are even fleet-fingered guitar solos. But whether confronting the listener with double-bass drums and staccato power chords or using melodic arpeggios and soft brush strokes to sweeten the sound of Witherspoon's multi-faceted vocals, SEVENDUST sounds excited, energized and ready to take on the world.

All five band members contributed to the lyrics on "Cold Day Memory", and the songs were works in progress up until the moment they were recorded. In the end, the band crafted songs that encapsulated their experiences with the world and one another. Witherspoon, who recently became a father, penned some lines about commitment and responsibility, while Rose, who was going through a painful divorce, wrote lyrics about heartbreak and disillusionment. The album's first single, "Unraveling", was co-written by Lowery and Dave Bassett (SHINEDOWN, PUDDLE OF MUDD) and is about the collapse of a relationship, while "Confession" indirectly addresses Lowery quitting and returning to the band.