Sevendust - Time Travelers & Bonfires - Music & Performance - CD

Sevendust didn't waste any time getting 2014 started the best way they know how: being holed up in the recording studio to create their long-awaited and highly-anticipated acoustic album. The Atlanta band entered Architect Studios in Butler, NJ to record their highly anticipated and much-talked-about acoustic studio album. It contains a collection of brand new songs, along with re-recorded Sevendust classics. Newly re-recorded songs will include: 'Black,' 'Gone,' 'Denial,' 'Karma,' 'Trust,' and 'Crucified.' Six brand new songs have also been written and recorded for the acoustic album.

Revisiting a concept that they first explored a decade previously on their 2004 live album Southside Double-Wide: Acoustic Live, Sevendust shed their metal side for Time Travelers & Bonfires. Stripping away the massive, crunchy guitar work that drove their sound on other albums, Sevendust have found a way to convert raw aggression into something more nuanced. The band attacks the songs here -- made up of half new tracks and half re-recorded versions of older songs -- with the same intensity that fans are used to, so while the volume might be lower, the passion is still there. Much like Black Label Society's similar experiment with the live album Unblackened, Time Travelers & Bonfires gives fans of the band a clearer look at the emotional core that lives at the heart of Sevendust's music, further stressing the importance of singer Lajon Witherspoon's vocal performances. While Witherspoon always seems to put everything he's got into his performance, the acoustic setting finally gives fans a clear view of the passion the singer injects into Sevendust's hard-hitting sound. With an album like this, there's always a worry that the band has just turned its powerful rock songs into lowly power ballads, but with Time Travelers & Bonfires, Sevendust have managed to tame their fiery songwriting without extinguishing it altogether. In the end, the album feels like an experiment in restraint, with Sevendust casting aside the crutch of distortion to see if their songwriting can stand up on its own. Fortunately for fans, they seem to doing just fine without it, making for an album that provides a welcome diversion from the rest of the band's hard-rocking back catalog. ~ Gregory Heaney, Rovi

Performer	Sevendust
Music genre	Rock
Music subgenre	Heavy
Music release type	Release
Media format	CD
Edition	Standard
Has parental advisory label	N
Number of discs	1
Series title	Sevendust - Time Travelers & Bonfires [COMPACT DISCS]
Track listing	Come Down, Under It All, Wait, Upbeat Sugar, One Life, Bonfire, Gone, Denial, Trust, Crucified, Karma, Black
Record label	7Bros Records
Songwriter	songwriter
Track name	Come Down, Under It All, The Wait, Upbeat Sugar, One Life, Bonfire, Gone, Denial, Trust, Crucified, Karma, Black
Music media format	CD
Is edited	N
Is enhanced	N