SEVENDUST's CLINT LOWERY Discusses His Return To Band

Greg Maki of Live-Metal.net recently conducted an interview with SEVENDUST guitarist Clint Lowery. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Live-Metal.net: Going back, do you have any regrets about leaving the band or how you left?

Clint Lowery: Yeah. I was in a bad place at the time. I feel bad the way I left. My intentions were good, but the way I executed it I regret. I treated it like a secret thing that I wanted to start this band with my brother, and in fairness to them, it wasn't fair. They really wanted to support what I was going through, but I was just in a bad place with drinking, bad place with drugs at the time. I was not capable of being honest at the time. So of course, I have my regrets there, but I made my amends with them. Maybe that's one of the reasons I worked so hard on this record, because I wanted to make it up to them.

Live-Metal.net: When you came back, who approached who?

Clint Lowery: Me and [SEVENDUST drummer] Morgan [Rose] stayed in contact for the most part. I hardly ever talked to the other guys. I'd run into them every now and then, and we'd say our piece to each other — "How are you doing? Hope all is well with the family" and all that. But Morgan, the KORN thing was over for me, so I was sitting at home and I was talking to him just on a friendship level. That's how we started out. He would call or I'd call and say, "So how are you doing, man? What's going on in life?" We'd talk music and we'd talk ideas, and then naturally the subject comes up, "What would it be like if we got back together? Is this the right time? Should we do it now? Should we wait? Should we do it all?" It was one of those things where we thought life's short. Let's become brothers again first, and then let's talk about being in a band.

Live-Metal.net: Two years ago, your first show back with them, what was it like stepping out onstage again?

Clint Lowery: It was cool. I forgot how hard it was to play in this band as far as exhaustion and energy and all that. The fans rev you up. You can rehearse all day long, but when you get there in front of them, they make you excited. I was tired, man, but I was up for it. I was really exhausted just because we just kill ourselves up there — we try to. I remember it being a really emotional night, because I was back, you know?

Read the entire interview at Live-Metal.net.