Deathstar (song)

"Deathstar"
Single by Sevendust
from the album Alpha
Released 2007
Format Digital single
Recorded 2007
Genre Heavy metal
Length 3:38
Label Asylum
Writer(s) Lajon Witherspoon
Morgan Rose
Producer Sean Groove
John Connolly
Morgan Rose
Sevendust singles chronology
"Beg to Differ"
(2007)
"'Deathstar"
(2007)
"Prodigal Son"
(2008)

Deathstar is a digital single off the album Alpha from American heavy metal band Sevendust. The song has a heavy melody and is one of the band's heaviest singles. The band didn't make a music video for this song.

Before the release of Alpha, "Deathstar" was to be the first radio single, but instead was released as a digital single and "Driven" was released to radio.

The song has hard rock roots, punk influences, a subtle use of paired vocal harmony, call and, answer vocal harmony (antiphony), extensive vamping, paired vocal harmony, a vocal-centric aesthetic, minor key tonality, electric guitar riffs, a gravelly male vocalist, an aggressive male vocalist, prominent drums.