Into the Ground

Shaun Morgan wrote “Into the Ground” as a study in complicity — not the righteous-outsider anger Seether built a career on, but the queasier feeling of watching the world rot while you keep breathing anyway. It’s 4:19 of exactly what the band does best: a riff that coils rather than explodes, Morgan’s voice fraying at the edges right when the chorus needs it to. Bassist Dale Stewart called it a song that “gets me pumped,” which undersells how bleak the lyric actually sits underneath the hook.

Nothing here reinvents Seether — this is a band nearly three decades in, still working the same vein — but it’s proof the vein hasn’t run dry. Fans have ranked it alongside “Silent Divide” and “Mercy” in the top tier of 2026’s rock singles, and they have it right. 7.8/10 — this belongs in 2026’s rock conversation, not just Seether’s.

Hero image: Seether performing at Rock am Ring, 2014, by Jan Brauer (Goroth), licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.