EXCLUSIVE: Seether frontman responds to Evanescence song

Seether frontman Shaun Morgan is not particularly happy about the new song by Evanescence, "Call Me When You're Sober." That band's singer, Amy Lee, has said in interviews that the track was inspired by the end last year of her relationship with Morgan, who entered a 28-day rehab program for drug and alcohol abuse in July. Morgan exclusively told us that he wasn't pleased to hear about the song: "It saddens me that our whole relationship was reduced to that. That, you know, almost three years we spent together comes down to 'Oh, woe is me, you don't care about me.' I'm disappointed that that's all that really mattered. I'm kind of irritated that our dirty laundry had to be aired, you know, all over the world. I wouldn't do that to somebody."

Seether will play some scattered live dates this fall but Morgan told us that the band is concentrating on writing its third album, which he hopes to begin recording by November. Their latest release, an live acoustic CD/DVD package called One Cold Night, came out this summer.

The singer and guitarist is also engaged and will become a father for the second time in November. He has a young daughter from a previous marriage.

The new Evanescence disc, titled The Open Door, arrives on October 3rd.