Anger and anxiety, insult and injury all contributed to the dark lyrical tone of Seether's sixth album, "Isolate and Medicate."
Frontman Shaun Morgan tells Billboard that the October deal that sent the trio, along with other holdings of Seether's old label, Wind-Up Records, to the Bicycle Music Company and Concord Record Group left he and his mates "really pissed off about it" and anxious for what the future held. "We were just being sold off like to some sort of product to a different label," Morgan recalls. "Nobody at our old label gave us a heads-up or even a courtesy call or an e.mail or a 'thank you' or a 'screw you' or anything. Communication just stopped. That really hurt. And I was terrified." That, in turn, fueled Morgan as he wrote "Isolate and Medicate's" songs -- alone at home in New Hampshire and during sessions with bassist Dale Stewart and drummer John Humphrey at Humphrey`s base in Oklahoma.
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