Origin:	Los Angeles, CA, USA
Genres:

Speak No Evil

Hailing from Los Angeles, Speak No Evil's debut was quite plainly influenced by Badmotorfinger-era Soundgarden, both musically and vocally, as Curtis Skelton's soulful vocals are quite similar to Chris Cornell's. By the time of the followup, Welcome To The Downside, the Soundgarden similarities were toned down just a bit, with the band being a bit harder and leaner, drawing some comparisons to, perhaps, Sevendust. Both albums are quite good in their own right, but due to whatever reasons (label mismanagement, perhaps), they didn't get a lot of exposure. For the last several years they have laid low, with a new (as yet unfinalized, or at least unpublicized) lineup working working on new material that, at one time, was said to be in a substantially different direction then their previous music.