Seether

Seether frontman Shaun Morgan's growling hard-rock yawp could be mistaken for unused scraps from any given Nickleback session, but at least his one-liners -- blanket truisms about people who "gave up their dreams" ("Fake It") and how he's "lost his way" ("Eyes of the Devil") -- make an instantly familiar pairing. Morgan's vocals and his group's compactly compressed guitar rage work best on pop tunes like "6 Gun Quota" and "Waste," which evoke latter day Alice In Chains.

Worst-lyric-of-the-year alert: "Your verbal defecation I can't wash away despite myself."
So Seether frontman Shaun Morgan informs us in his Nickelback-ian growl during "No Jesus
Christ," a seven-minute-long compilation of post-grunge cliches. The lip-ringed Morgan --
best known as the subject of Evanescence's "Call Me When You're Sober," as penned by
former girlfriend Amy Lee -- and his band do know how to write some catchy he... More >