Sevendust - Chapter VII: Hope and Sorrow
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Album:Chapter VII: Hope & Sorrow
I don't think it's any secret amongst the regulars around [antiMusic] that I'm a Sevendust fan. So maybe it carries a little more weight when I say I have mixed feelings about Sevendust's most recent studio album. (Keep in mind that I probably sounded like a raving fanboy on their last two studio discs, Alpha and Next.)I think the biggest part of it is that I really liked the direction they were taking on Alpha, which had some really killer songs and was a bit of an evolution in their sound. This was no doubt a combination of the fact it was more of a concept album, and that replacement guitarist Sonny Mayo had a hand in the writing. On the other hand, I guess he was involved in the writing of this CD as well, having only been replaced by original guitarist Clint Lowery a few days before the release of Chapter VII. At any rate, it's fair to say that Chapter VII is also an evolution in their sound, although it's kind of like Alpha was one branch off of the trunk of the Sevendust tree, and for Chapter VII they went back up to the trunk and then took a different branch.(continued...)
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