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A versatile and prolific American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and producer,
Clint Lowery is best known as the guitarist and backing vocalist of
Sevendust, an Atlanta-based hard rock/nu-metal group whose blend of bottom-heavy riffs and accessible melodies found huge commercial success in the late '90s and 2000s. In addition to his work with
Sevendust,
Lowery plays in the heavy metal supergroups
Dark New Day and
Call Me No One, has served as the touring guitarist for
Korn and
Seether, and has released solo material under his own name, as well as under the moniker Clint Lowery's Hello Demons Meet Skeletons.
Born in Jacksonville, Florida,
Lowery began playing in the band Still Rain in 1989 alongside vocalist
Donnie Hamby, future
Evanescence and
DoubleDrive guitarist
Troy McLawhorn, sibling and future
Saint Asonia and
Stuck Mojo bassist
Corey Lowery, and future
Danzig and Madfly drummer Bevan Davies. He joined
Sevendust in 1996, with whom he would go on to release multiple chart-topping albums, three of which,
Sevendust (1997),
Home (1999), and
Animosity (2001), were certified gold.
Lowery left the group in 2004 to team up with his brother,
Virgos Merlot's
Brett Hestla, old Still Rain bandmate
Troy McLawhorn, and
Skrape's Will Hunt for the active rock supergroup
Dark New Day, who released their debut album
Twelve Year Silence in 2005. Two years later
Lowery joined
Korn on the road as their live guitarist, but was forced to leave after seven months in the wake of his arrest in Slovakia for trashing his hotel room. In 2008 he rejoined
Sevendust and appeared on the group's eighth studio long-player,
Cold Day Memory, which proved to be their highest-charting debut to date. That same year saw
Lowery composed and recorded the highly personal six-song EP Chills, which he released under the name Hello Demons Meet Skeletons. He issued two more EPs under the moniker in 2011, and in 2012
Dark New Day unleashed their sophomore full-length effort,
New Tradition.
2012 also saw
Lowery team up with
Sevendust bandmate
Morgan Rose for the LP
Last Parade, which they released as
Call Me No One.
Dark New Day's
Hail Mary arrived in 2013, as did
Sevendust's
Black Out the Sun.
Lowery continued to put out new material with his flagship band, including 2018's
All I See Is War, and in 2020 he released his Rise Records-issued solo debut
God Bless the Renegades, which was produced and co-written by
Michael "Elvis" Baskette (
Slash,
Alter Bridge), and featured drums courtesy of
Wolfgang Van Halen. ~ James Christopher Monger