Would the world have heard the talented and incredibly beautiful singles Broken and Remedy if, as a child, Sean Morgan had not fallen in love with the work of the cult band NIRVANA and decided for himself that he would become the same cool musician?
A dream entered the life of a 12-year-old boy and led him along. Sean learned to play the guitar and ran away from home to conquer the world. After 21 years, when his rock band's "arsenal" already had several "gold" and "platinum" albums, he included a cover version of the Heart-Shaped Box song in the performance program.
Creating a Seether group
The birthplace of this post-grunge rock band is Pretoria (South Africa). The first name is Saron Gas. Who would have thought that in places where pop and national motives were the favorite rhythms of local residents, something similar could appear, but the fact remains.
The first line-up of the group included: Sean Morgan, who became its permanent leader and frontman, David Koho (drums), Tyrone Morris (bassist), Johan Grayling (guitarist).
Officially, the group was created a few months before the millennium - in May 1999. An interesting date, at the turn of the millennium. Did this time influence the music and creativity of musicians? It couldn't help but affect.
The band's first album and subsequent success
Like most young bands, the group Saron Gas (later Seether) began with performances at student and youth parties, in nightclubs. How it happened that the guys came to the attention of the local record company Musketeer Records is unknown, but the result of mutual acquaintance was the debut album Fragile.
The saying "The first pancake is lumpy" did not work. On the contrary, for beginners the album turned out to be more than successful. Two singles 69 Tea and Fine Again hit the national charts at once.
During this period, the first partial change of composition took place in the group. Grayling and Morris left. The bass player was replaced by Dale Stewart, a new member of the band. The Saron Gas group began performing as a threesome.
Team name change
Heavy, but at the same time melodic music of rockers hypnotized and did not let go of the listeners. The group was spotted on another continent. The American label Wind-Up Records offered the team a lucrative contract. It was a success and a chance for the future!
The guys, without hesitation, immediately agreed to all the conditions, including renaming the group. Label representatives found the original name Saron Gas to be very defiant and aggressive. It was associated with the name of a military poison gas, which the Nazis were accused of using in World War II.
From whose light hand the group became known as Seether (an obsolete British word for a boiling device) is unknown. History is silent on this. They say that the guys were inspired to adopt this name by the single of the American alternative bands Veruca Salt with the same name Seether.
Public life and Sizer's new album
The creative and personal life of musicians developed in 2002. The guys released an EP and managed to appear at one of the largest annual metal festivals Ozzfest, then closed in the studio to record a full-length serious album Disclaimer.
Drummer David Koho left the band, replaced briefly by John Freese and then by Nick Oshiro.
A bit of lyrics in the work of Seether
After recording the album, the band embarked on a year-long US tour. At the same time, Sean Morgan had a crazy affair with Amy Lee, the vocalist of the band Evanescence. The couple became inseparable.
After finishing their tour, the musicians went on a joint tour with Evanescence. It is probably not worth talking about what caused this step.
Tandem with Evanescence and parting
The creative and loving union with Amy Lee nourished and filled Sean. The ballad Broken, which they performed as a duet, hit the American top 20 and sounded in the movie The Punisher.
On the same wave, the musicians thoroughly reworked their debut album Disclaimer and re-released it in 2004 under the name Disclaimer II. And again success! The album went platinum, but happiness in this world is a ghostly bird.
The band left John Humphrey (drums) and Pat Callahan (guitar). Sean and Amy's relationship ended in a breakup, then Sean went on a drinking binge. Then there was a rehabilitation clinic, the tragic death of his brother. Seether's frontman had a hard time, but he didn't break down.
Creative weekdays of the team
The album Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces, released in 2007, broke into the top ten of Billboard literally from the start.
In the spring of 2010, there was a successful tour that lasted until the summer. Then there was intensive studio work and a new crazy track Fur Cue, sustained in the corporate style of the group, another lyrical track No Resolution, to finally impress the fans, the composition Country Song (a combination of country and heavy aggressive rock) was released.
The sound of Country Song is completely uncharacteristic of Seether's previous work, but the single has become the group's most recognizable song. It seems that this does not bother either the musicians themselves or their many fans.
Sean is sure that he still has something to say to the world. The guys are not afraid to "play" and experiment with sound, and it seems that a new "clip" of hypnotic, aggressive and at the same time deeply lyrical and tender Morgan's music is not far off.
