Corey French Lowery is an American musician, songwriter, record producer and engineer. He is the guitarist and backing vocalist for South African rock band

Seether Seether are a South African rock band founded in 1999 in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. The band originally performed under the name Saron Gas until 2002, when they moved to the United States and changed it to Seether to avoid confusion wi ...

, and a former member of Saint Asonia,

Stuck Mojo Stuck Mojo is an American rap metal band from Atlanta, formed in 1989 by bassist Dwayne Fowler. The band is considered to be one of the pioneers of rap metal. They have toured alongside bands such as Machine Head and Slapshot. Stuck Mojo's most ...

Stereomud Stereomud was an American nu metal band from New York City and Georgia. They were active from years 1999 to 2003 before breaking up, releasing two albums—'' Perfect Self'' and '' Every Given Moment''. History Stereomud released their first al ...

, Eye Empire, and

Dark New Day Dark New Day was an American hard rock supergroup formed in 2004 featuring Brett Hestla of Virgos Merlot, Clint Lowery of Sevendust, Troy McLawhorn of DoubleDrive, Corey Lowery of Stereomud and Stuck Mojo, and Will Hunt of Skrape. Thei ...

. He is the brother of Clint Lowery.

History

Lowery played bass guitar with

from 1995 to 1998, including most of two most albums, ''

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'' and '' Rising''. He then joined

which consisted of Lowery on bass, Erik Rogers on vocals, Dan Richardson on drums, and John Fattoruso and Joey Zampella on guitars. They released their first album, '' Perfect Self'', on

Columbia Records Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on Janua ...

in 2001 and a video for the song "Pain" received airplay on

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. They released '' Every Given Moment'' in April 2003. After participating in the Jägermeister Music Tour with

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, 68rouge 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, three months after the release of '' Every Given Moment''. Lowery formed

in 2004 featuring Brett Hestla, Troy McLawhorn, Will Hunt and later, his older brother, Clint Lowery. On June 14, 2005, the band released their first album, ''

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'' through

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Records. The first single from the effort, "Brother", was a top 10 hit on active stations. On September 5, 2006, the band released an EP, '' Black Porch (Acoustic Sessions)'', through the iTunes store. The only single that was released was the acoustic version of "Follow the Sun Down". Eye Empire was formed in October 2009. The band included Lowery, guitarist B.C. Kochmit, former

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singer Donald Carpenter and Ryan Bennett on drums. During this time, Lowery also co-produced and co-wrote on the Sevendust album, '' Cold Day Memory''. He reunited with Stuck Mojo at the end of 2014. In 2015, Lowery was asked by

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and Adam Gontier to join their new band, Saint Asonia. Lowery departed the band in the summer of 2018 after he was asked by

to fill-in on guitar and backing vocals while the band supported

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on their eight-week '' Feed the Machine'' European and UK tour. The tour also included a stop in South Africa for Seether, after a six year absence. Before the tour ended, he became a full time member of the band.

Discography

Still Rain *''Self Titled'' (1994) *''Bitter Black Water'' (1995) Stuck Mojo *''

'' (1996) *''Violated'' (EP) (1997) *'' Rising'' (1998) Stereomud *'' Perfect Self'' (2001) *'' Every Given Moment'' (2003) Dark New Day *''

'' (June 14, 2005) *'' Black Porch (Acoustic Sessions)'' (EP) (September 5, 2006) *''Hail Mary'' (August 23, 2011) *''B-Sides'' (August 24, 2011) *'' New Tradition'' (February 28, 2012) Eye Empire *'' Moment of Impact'' (2010) *''

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'' (2012) *''Evolve'' (2013) Saint Asonia *'' Saint Asonia'' (2015) Seether *''

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'' (2020) Crobot *'' Motherbrain'' (2019)

References

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