Who is Chief Sealth?
Chief Sealth was an American Indian after whom the city of Seattle was named. The band used his commentary, albeit in a slightly shorter and modified version, on the ideas and social actions of the Europeans coming to America as lyrics to their cover version of Black Sabbath’s “Into the Void”, the lead track on the SOMMS EP. Kim explains thusly: “That was our bass player’s idea. Ben Shepherd. He noticed a similarity in the meter of the lyrics and Chris made them fit. It was just such a Seattle thing to cover a Sabbath song, and then use the lyrics of the man whom our town was named after. Kinda funny. Born of sincerity, but it also had its humour.
