Seether - Karma And Effect
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ChevelleNirvana
Three Days Grace
Breaking Benjamin
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Wind Up RecordsTracklist
1. Because of Me2. Remedy
3. Truth
4. Gift
5. Burrito
6. Given
7. Never Leave
8. World Falls Away
9. Tongue
10. I’m The One
11. Simplest Mistake
12. Diseased
13. Plastic Man
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Following up on last year's hit single "Broken"; a duet between frontman Shaun Morgan and girlfriend Amy Lee (Evanescence), Seether seek to shed their Nickelback copycat image many critics have pinned them with this time around with their new album Karma and Effect.
With the songwriting duties no longer placed solely on Morgan and shared amongst all band members, including new permanent additions Pat Callahan on guitar and John Humphrey on drums, this quartet now recaptures the sound of mid-late 90's grunge and augments it with a creative tinge of vibrant modern rock.
Morgan’s bellowing roar in the first few seconds of the opening track “Because of Me” sets the surprisingly heavy ambiance for the entire album. No longer plagued with unstructured fits of angst like in their debut “Disclaimer”, Morgan’s vocals melodically soar through emphatic harmonies with a tone eerily reminiscent to that of the late Kurt Cobain.
The first single “Remedy” could have easily been a Nirvana song during the “Nevermind” era, blessed with the same intelligent and unpredictable melodicism everyone has come to love. “World Falls Away” travels along the same enjoyable path, blending soothing acoustical moments amongst an energetic distortion driven chorus.
Darker songs like the abuse tale “Diseased” emit a slower down-tuned chug of Staind influence (Circa 1999) and detaches from traditional verse-chorus-verse structure, creating multi-dimensional, deeper material that surpasses anything the band previously created.
Darker, heavier, and more mature, never has the band sounded more brutal, yet more fluid. A must have album.
Vincent Cherubino
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