{"id":404414,"date":"2025-11-25T20:58:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404414\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T20:58:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T20:58:11","slug":"clint-lowery-says-he-gave-glory-to-god-before-every-session-for-sevendusts-next-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/404414\/","title":{"rendered":"Clint Lowery Says He ‘Gave Glory To God’ Before Every Session For Sevendust’s Next Album"},"content":{"rendered":"

For at least one musician involved, Sevendust<\/strong>\u2018s forthcoming fifteenth studio album will be an expression of their Christian faith. Guitarist\/vocalist Clint Lowery<\/strong> has been increasingly vocal about embracing Christianity in recent times. In a new interview published by Church Leaders<\/a>, Lowery<\/strong> spoke at length about how finding God has changed him, and how it will impact the next record from the above-mentioned alternative metal outfit. Speaking of that, he offered [transcribed by theprp.com]:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is the first record that every single session, every time that I went to go write \u2014 and the writing process can be agonizing, it can be fulfilling, it can be all these things. But this was the first record that I gave credit and glory to God for every session before every time I sat down\u2026 A lot of my career I would boast in the fact that I wrote these songs, I had this thing. I took credit for that gift. First off, I just gave the glory to [God] to be able to even write. Creative\u2026 everything he gave me, with the way I hear music, the way I perceive it, it\u2019s all giving the glory to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Lowery<\/strong> then went on to address claims that the band have gone Christian metal in light of his own spiritual conversion. He stated:<\/p>\n

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\u201cI did a couple interviews and someone said this next Sevendust<\/strong> is going to be a Christian metal record, which I got a kick out of. People take headlines. But what it was, was, you know, we\u2019ve touched, we flirted with the topic in our past. And there\u2019s a song in particular called \u201cTill Death<\/strong>\u201d where I was really coming to terms. This is the heaviest song we have. And I was coming to terms with my faith in my own way.<\/p>\n

Just kind of one foot in, one foot out, not fully there, acknowledging Christ, acknowledging the the Bible, but not knowing the scripture. Not having a personal relationship. And that was a big difference. So I went and talked to the pastor that I got saved by, and we kind of worked through a lot of stuff with me, and he\u2019s kind of my mentor in the Bible. And [he] guided me through. And he was\u2026 I was like, \u2018What[do I write?\u2019] Because it\u2019s on my heart to write about this and the struggle of what brought me there, and just my relationship [with God.]<\/p>\n

I wanted to write about it. And I said I don\u2019t want to write every song [about my faith,] I don\u2019t want to just automatically do that. I want it to be natural. He said, \u2018Just let God guide you in there.\u2019 I had six songs that kind of came from from me, you know, and every one of them have something to do with with giving\u2026 connecting with God. The struggle within, the brokenness of all of us, and just recognizing that there\u2019s hope. It was very hopeful.<\/p>\n

Even though the musical landscape \u2014 the music is heavy \u2014 it\u2019s [also] probably our most melodic record in a while. It was fulfilling. And not only that, the energy in the room, the relationships within the band are so good. And I feel like God has worked. Because I used to join in the gossip. I used to add to the negatives. I used to do all those things.<\/p>\n

And I changed a few things. And you don\u2019t realize how much of a bad ingredient you are to the soup until you change what you\u2019re adding to it. And I was adding\u2026 I\u2019d just 1764104291 be a little quieter during the negative things and then more encouraging when people [were positive.] And God gave me these connections with people that I wouldn\u2019t have found without the suffering that I had gone through that that got me to him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

With the album\u2019s recording sessions having wrapped earlier this month<\/a> under Michael \u201cElvis\u201d Baskette<\/strong> (Mammoth<\/strong>, Alter Bridge<\/strong>), he went on to say that the mixing sessions for the record are expected to be completed by early December, with a first single likely to arrive in early 2026. He also reckoned that the album will likely follow in the summer.<\/p>\n

Later in the chat, Lowery<\/strong> expounded upon his belief in crediting God for operating through him, revealing that it helped him overcome with past bitterness over songwriting credits on Sevendust<\/strong> material:<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt was an empty void. I didn\u2019t realize, right? It\u2019s like by giving [God] credit. I used to get irritated that I wouldn\u2019t get the writer\u2019s credit, you know, on these songs and stuff. And then it hit me. I was talking to Eric Bass<\/strong> from Shinedown<\/strong> \u2014 we used to have a little Bible study \u2014 and we both came to the realization, man, we\u2019ve been harboring these resentments over not getting the credit we deserve behind the scenes, and we\u2019re not giving the credit to the ultimate. So it\u2019s like the hypocrisy in that, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He also briefly touched on how his faith conflicts with some of Sevendust<\/strong>\u2018s past output:<\/p>\n

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\u201cGod has put me where he needs me. And I struggled a little bit in terms of this environment because there still not, not everyone\u2019s on the same thing. And you know some of the old words that we throw out there, you\u2019ll hear a couple curses. I curse on one of the songs and I really don\u2019t\u2026 I\u2019ve changed that part about myself. But I think what God\u2019s teaching me is do more. He wants more for me. There\u2019s more I can do for some people in need\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For at least one musician involved, Sevendust\u2018s forthcoming fifteenth studio album will be an expression of their Christian…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":404415,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[173974,171,975,173975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-404414","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-clint-lowery","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-music","11":"tag-sevendust","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115612346468076284","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}