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Shaun Morgan is a changed man. For the front man/guitarist and principal songwriter in hard rock frontrunners Seether, a new outlook on life and music has resulted in Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces (Wind-up). Easily the South Africa-bred, L.A.-based hard rock band’s strongest and most innovative studio offering yet, Morgan and his bandmates, drummer John Humphrey and bassist Dale Stewart, have delivered a succinct album built from twelve superlative songs. Cherry-picked from the sixty tunes Morgan brought to the band and producer Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, Three Days Grace), the concise end-product affirms Seether is boldly inventive and on their A-game. With no fewer than five potential singles, “Fake It,” the infectious hard rock smash that launches the disc, is front and center. Taking aim at the plastic people that share the Los Angeles landscape with Morgan in his adopted hometown, the track was built around a swing drumbeat and is driven by a surging, inescapable riff.
What Seether has done since 2002, when it released its U.S. debut Disclaimer, is capture the attention of music fans across the globe with its epic riffs, thunderous rhythms and conscience-invading choruses. Certified gold the first time out by the RIAA on the strength of radio favorites like “Fine Again” and “Gasoline,” a reworked version of that album (known as Disclaimer II) went platinum when a new rendition of the ballad “Broken” which became a Top 20 pop hit.
Seether’s success carried forward with 2005’s Karma and Effect, which debuted at #8, going platinum and boasting hits like “Truth,” “The Gift” and “Remedy.” Although the latter topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Chart for eight consecutive weeks), it was a considerably darker effort than its predecessor( s). “That album was really dim and really heavy and acerbic because we were trying to get away from the ‘Broken’ connection,” Morgan admits. “We wanted to take back our identity.”
As for his ultimate goal with Seether’s third studio disc for Wind-up, Morgan concludes, “I wanted it to be as powerful as one of those live albums, with nine singles on it. And that’s a product of condensing sixty tunes down to twelve. And then we worked extremely hard on those twelve to make them really good songs. I wanted to have an album that was that powerful, something that I was really proud of from start to finish.”
Mission accomplished.
Shaun Morgan, the singer songwriter, uses Blue
Steel Electric DT and Blue Steel
Bass ML.
Shaun Morgan voiced this for the group:
I’ve never had my guitar tone sound bad thanks to Dean Markley’s Blue Steel strings. We play around 300 shows a year and I’ve
yet to be disappointed.
Be sure to visit the Seether website at:
www.Seether.com.
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