By the release of Blood & Stone, the thirteenth album from Atlanta rockers Sevendust, you have to wonder what the band has to do to reach the levels achieved by other radio-friendly rockers. What makes this even more criminal is that as the rock heavyweights bang through the jarring opener “Dying To Live,” Sevendust is clearly capable of making some serious tunes. Blood & Stone is an absolutely huge-sounding rock album that sees the group kicking this disc off with a thick-sounding guitar that bodes well for the rest of the record. Thankfully, after such a pulsating opener, the rest of Blood & Stone, while not quite matching the opener in terms of brute-force power, still has plenty of punch in its standout tracks. “Blood From A Stone” is another heavy-hitter but, in all honest...
