“You know what’s funny is every step of the way we had claw our way to the next level.”<\/p>\n
Seether<\/a>‘s Shaun Morgan<\/a> joined Loudwire Nights<\/em><\/a> on Thursday (Dec. 4) and spent a lot of time reflecting on the earliest days of the band’s career. Listen to the full conversation in the player near the end of this article.<\/p>\n “You lose a battle of the bands, normally you go, alright, well we’re done. And we said, no, let’s not be done because that competition sucked and we know those other bands suck, so there’s no way that was legitimate.”<\/p>\n Morgan was looking back on the first battle of the bands they competed in. After they didn’t win, they felt compelled to keep pushing forward and do things on their own.<\/p>\n “We managed ourselves for a long time and we booked tours in a pickup truck with [bassist] Dale [Turner] and my brother. My brother was doing sound, he’d never done sound in his life, but he knew how to sort of twiddle some knobs to make it sound okay.”<\/p>\n As he shared several significant obstacles Seether faced over the years, Morgan admitted it’s crazy that they’re still releasing new music and touring.<\/p>\n “It’s cool how far it’s come,” he shared.<\/p>\n “I guess that’s something to be super thankful for … We’ve toured with so many bands that were, I thought, great bands and that no longer exist or have had hard times have really struggled to stay relevant \u2014 which is normal.”<\/p>\n While he looked back on the many years of Seether’s struggles and successes, Morgan also shared his thought process about what’s next for the band.<\/p>\n “We have a great label that supports a vision for the band going forward,” he said.<\/p>\n “It’s a little too early to sort of really know what the future is, but there’s going to be a slightly different approach going forward as far as releases and things go with maybe more of a focus on a single at a time.”<\/p>\n He said they may opt to do singles for the next few years instead of recording a full album. Though he loves the experience of listening to a band’s record in full, he recognizes that times have changed.<\/p>\n “We live in a playlist kind of world and we live in a singles-driven world,” Morgan said.<\/p>\n “I think that the world has changed so much. We look to bands like Bring Me the Horizon<\/a>…they’ll release albums eventually if they feel like it. They just do a steady stream of singles and I feel like you have to look at one of the bands that’s the biggest, most innovative bands in the world and then you also just have to use common sense and go, alright, CDs are a thing of the past [and] streaming entire albums is for the core fans.”<\/p>\n Morgan said he will always love the full album experience and fretting over a tracklist, but he he also shared a bit of relief with the idea of only focusing on singles for now.<\/p>\n READ MORE:\u00a0Slash Discusses His Love For Live Albums, Ozzy + More \u2014 Interview<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n “I have to write a song at a time instead of having to write 30, 40 and then whittle that down to 15 and then cut that down to 10 or 11,” he said.<\/p>\n “I’ve already got about 18 ideas and I can now go, alright, cool, is anything in here something that I would consider single worthy? If I find 10 of them, there are 10 that I think I could work on and turn into songs that I really think represent the band.”<\/p>\n Shaun Morgan\u00a0joined\u00a0<\/em>Loudwire Nights on Thursday, Dec. 4;\u00a0the show replays online here<\/a>, and you can tune in live every weeknight at 7PM ET<\/a> or on the Loudwire app<\/a>; you can also see if the show is available on your local radio station<\/a>\u00a0and listen to interviews on-demand<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n Two decades down. Do these 2005 albums still hold up as some of your favorites from that era?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Gallery Credit: Chad Childers, Loudwire<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Loudwire](\"https:\/\/townsquare.media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/loudwire.png?w=100\")
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