Corey Lowery

Corey Lowery
Genres	Heavy metal Hard rock Alternative metal
Occupations	Musician, Songwriter, Producer
Instruments	Bass, Vocals
Years active	1989-Present
Labels	Century Media Columbia Records Corporate Punishment Immortal Records Loud Records Napalm Warner Bros.
Associated acts	Dark New Day Eye Empire Stereomud Still Rain Stuck Mojo Switched Sevendust Violent Plan
Website	www.myspace.com/eyeempire

Corey Lowery (born February 23) is a hard rock bassist and vocalist, previously of the bands Still Rain, Stuck Mojo,^[1] Switched and Stereomud. Lowery currently plays bass and provides backing vocals in the band Eye Empire.^[2] Eye Empire was previously known as Violent Plan. Before Violent Plan, Corey was playing with Dark New Day from 2004 to 2008. Corey Lowery has two brothers, Clint and Dustin, who have played in different bands over the years. He is married to his wife Lisa Rosenbloom Lowery. They both currently live in Atlanta, GA.

Biography

Still Rain

In 1989, Corey Lowery with vocalist Donnie Hamby, guitarists Troy McLawhorn and Clint Lowery and drummer Bevan Davies start a new band called Still Rain. Lowery with the band played everywhere from Daytona to Atlanta to Louisville, Kentucky. Even as far North as Grand Rapids, Michigan at Club Eastbrook. Mixing multiple sets of covers with their own original music. Doing this, they built up quite a big following. After doing this for a few years, they decided to go all original, producing their first Album (they had done tapes before, which sold out quickly) called Still Rain. A second album, Bitter Black Water, soon followed.

Stuck Mojo

After Still Rain, Lowery joined Stuck Mojo. He played bass for Stuck Mojo from 1996-98.

Stereomud

Corey Lowery would join Stereomud after his time in Stuck Mojo. Stereomud consisted of Corey on Bass, Erik Rogers on vocals, Dan Richardson on drums, and John Fattoruso and Joey Zampella on guitars. Stereomud released their first album, Perfect Self, on Columbia Records in 2001 and a video for the song "Pain" received airplay on MTV2. After extensive touring in support of that album, they went back into the studio, releasing Every Given Moment in April 2003. After participating in the Jagermeister Music Tour with Hed PE, Breaking Benjamin, Systematic, and Saliva, Columbia Records cut their touring support, and dropped the band. Due to this, and an impending Life of Agony reunion, Stereomud went their separate ways in July 2003, a mere 3 months after the release of Every Given Moment. They have performed a few select reunion shows since this, but for the most part, the band remains dormant to this day. Recently, it was rumored that Erik Rogers and Corey Lowery would reunite to reform the band, but the possibilities may not be true as they are focusing on their own bands. It is planned that a Stereomud DVD will be released at some point in the future. Erik Rogers formed a new version of Stereomud as the only original member in February 2009, but then changed band name to 'Dangerous New Machine', while Corey would start Violent Plan with Dan Richardson.

Switched

After Stereomud separated in 2003, Corey would go on to join Switched. He helped the band finish their second album, "Ghosts in the Machine". Before he left to join Dark New Day, Corey met guitarist B.C. Kochmit.

Dark New Day

On December 11, 2004, after playing a show in Columbus, Ohio, it was announced that Clint Lowery, Corey's brother had left his band Sevendust mid-tour of the "Seasons" album, because Clint wanted to play with Corey. Corey was forming a new band Dark New Day, who had reportedly just signed with Warner Bros. records. Dark New Day also consisted of Will Hunt formerly of Skrape, Troy McLawhorn on guitars, and Brett Hestla on vocals. Sevendust hired guitarist J3, formerly of Tommy Lee, was temporarily to fill in for Clint on the rest of the dates, and was eventually replaced by Sonny Mayo (from Snot and Amen). On June 14, 2005, the band released their first album, Twelve Year Silence through Warner Bros. Records. The first single from the effort, "Brother", was a surprise hit on active and alternative stations, although the follow-up, "Pieces", did not fare nearly as well. On September 5, 2006, Dark New Day released an EP through iTunes called "Black Porch" that features new tracks "Breakdown" and "Storm" as well as acoustic versions of songs from Twelve Year Silence. The only single that was released was the acoustic version of "Follow The Sun Down". In September 2007, Clint posted on Dark New Day's MySpace page saying that the band returned to the studio to record their next album with producer Dave Bendeth. On February 7, 2009, after months of no word on the album and several members going on to join other bands. Troy would join Seether and Clint would go on to rejoin with his old band Sevendust. Will has been a touring drummer for Static-X and recorded with Static-X and bloodsimple on "Red Harvest". Brett would go back to producing bands. After months of no word, Clint posted a blog entry stating the likely possibility that the second album will never be released. He did say that there was a chance of it getting released on iTunes but no word of when. He also stated that he didn't know what shape the band was in but that it was most likely on permanent hiatus. Plus B.C. Kochmit of Switched would join Dark New Day as a replacement guitarist after Clint rejoined Sevendust and Troy joined Seether. Also Corey would post the latest blog, which stated that Violent Plan had been formed.

Violent Plan

With Dark New Day on hiatus, Corey first thought of re-creating Stereomud with Erik Rogers and Dan Richardson, but after a while they thought they should start new projects. So as Erik went on to form 'Dangerous New Machine', Corey and Dan formed Violent Plan. With Corey on bass and Dan on drums, they got B.C. Kochmit on guitars and Donnie Hamby. They released one demo known as "Underneath. The song has been heard recently during Eye Empire's first few shows in December of 2009.

Eye Empire

Corey with his new band mates in October of 2009, announced that Eye Empire was born. Violent Plan ended while Eye Empire was born. Also in Eye Empire with Corey are B.C. Kochmit and Dixie Duncan on guitars with former Submersed members Donald Carpenter on vocals and Garrett Whitlock on drums. As with working on their first album, Corey helped Sevendust with their new album "Cold Day Memory".

Discography

Still Rain

• Still Rain
• Bitter Black Water

Stuck Mojo

• Pigwalk (1996)
• Violated (EP) (1997)
• Rising (1998)

Stereomud

• Perfect Self (2001)
• Every Given Moment (2003)

Switched

• Ghosts in the Machine (2006)

Dark New Day

• Twelve Year Silence (June 14, 2005)
• Black Porch (Acoustic Sessions) (EP) (September 5, 2006)
• Hail Mary (August 23, 2011)
• B-Sides (August 24, 2011)

Eye Empire

• Moment of Impact (2010)

References

1. ^ DaRonco, Mike. "Biography: Stuck Mojo". AMG. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p194948/biography. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 
2. ^ "Eye Empire Schedules Georgia Dates". Blabbermouth. March 17, 2010. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=136918. Retrieved 11 May 2010. 

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