Earlier this week, ChurchLeaders sat down with Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery on the Southside Double-Wide Tour for a conversation about writing the band’s new record—the first since he came to faith in Jesus.
Lowery shared how his creative process was transformed by prayer, surrender, and giving God full credit for the musical gifts he long claimed as his own. He described the new album as heavy, melodic, and, although Sevendust is not at all a Christian band, spiritually hopeful. Lowery shared that his creative input into several songs was influenced by his relationship with Jesus.
The lead guitarist also shared how his conversion to Christianity has helped change his personal character, his relationships within the band, and the tension of navigating a secular music environment while living out his newfound faith.
Lowery discussed how he uses his platform on social media to bring glory to Jesus. “I have this platform,” Lowery said as he shared how careful he is with what he posts. “I don’t want to confuse the Scripture. I don’t want to interpret it in any kind of wrong way. All I’m humbly saying: ‘This is what my experience is with it at this point in time. This is what God’s doing in my life.’”
“This is the first record that every single session, every time that I went to go write—and the writing process can be agonizing, it can be fulfilling—but [it’s] the first record that I gave credit and glory to God before every session,” said Lowery. “Because a lot of my career, I would boast in the fact that I wrote these songs. I had this thing [and] took credit for that gift.”
“First off, I just gave the glory to him to be able to even write [and be] creative; everything he gave me was the way I hear music, the way I perceive it, it’s all giving the glory to him,” he continued. “So that was the procedure in terms of what changed.”
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Earlier this week, ChurchLeaders sat down with Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery on the Southside Double-Wide Tour for a conversation about writing the band’s new record—the first since he came to faith in Jesus.Click to PostLowery squashed the rumors that his newfound faith would turn the new record into a Christian metal album, but he did share how past Sevendust songs do include the topic of faith.
“We’ve touched, we flirted with the topic in our past. There’s a song in particular called ‘Till Death‘ where I was really coming to terms,” he explained. “This is the heaviest song we have, and I was coming to terms with my faith in my own way—just kind of one foot in, one foot out, not fully there, acknowledging Christ, acknowledging the Bible, but not knowing the Scripture, not having a personal relationship.”
It wasn’t until Lowery accepted Jesus as his personal savior and began a relationship with him that he began to understand what real belief and faith in Jesus was. Lowery credits his pastor and mentor for helping him navigate how to write his faith journey into the songs for the new record.
