After cycling through monikers — first Rumblefish then Crawlspace and finally Sevendust — this Atlanta, Georgia, crew quickly made their name with their grooving self-titled debut. When it dropped in April of 1997, most critics lazily compared
Sevendust to Living Colour. But dynamic and crushing numbers like “Black,” “Bitch” and “My Ruin” (the last, originally released under the Crawlspace name) demonstrated that vocalist Lajon Witherspoon
and Co. had much more in common with post-thrash Metallica and inadvertent nu-metal forefathers Faith No More.
