June 15, 2004 - Seether and Broken

On the same day as my last release a new band joins my library when Seether released their second album "Disclaimer II" on June 15, 2004. But who are Seether? They are a three-piece rock band from Pretoria, South Africa consisting of drummer John Humphrey, bassist Dale Stewart and lead singer/guitarist Shaun Morgan. I'm not a huge Seether fan and I only have one song off this album: arguably Seether's most famous song. It's called "Broken" and it features guest vocals from Amy Lee of Evanescence! It's a slow and pretty sad song driven by some nice acoustic guitar by Morgan and his low, grunge-y voice sounds pretty smooth and solid overtop the acoustic riff. Amy joins in for the sappy but very well done chorus and the two of them together sounds pretty good. Amy sings the second verse and she sounds pretty great in this setting as well. Things are certainly sad, but they do an excellent job of keeping things epic. Throw in some epic strings for the loud finish and this was a pretty cool song for one that's so depressing. 

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