More recently, the sitar has started to regain some of its prominence in western mainstream music. The late sixties Indian inflected jazz-funk track "Mathar" by the Dave Pike Set, featuring sitarist Volker Kriegel, later became a massive club hit when rediscovered in the early 90s. The metal band Metallica used an electric sitar on "Wherever I May Roam". Rival band Megadeth used a sitar on the song "Secret Place" from the album Cryptic Writings, as did the Christian hard rock band Blindside on their song "Shekina". The Scottish band Belle & Sebastian uses the sitar most notably in their song "Legal Man". Cornershop's album When I Was Born for the 7th Time uses it extensively. The avant-garde rock band Polvo, psychedelic rock bands Kula Shaker, The High Dials, and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the electronica group Morcheeba all use the sitar in many of their songs. Oasis has used an electric sitar on the song "Who Feels Love?" on the album Standing on the Shoulder of Giants, and Incubus used a sitar on the bridge of "Nowhere Fast" on the album Make Yourself. Sitar has also been featured in No Doubt's hit album Tragic Kingdom, and Green Day has also used the instrument on the song "Extraordinary Girl" on American Idiot. System of a Down has also been noted for sometimes using the sitar in their songs, as well as the band Dream Theater in the song "Home" on Scenes from A Memory; however, it was only used as a synthesizer effect. Nightwish has made use of the sitar in The Siren, Creek Mary's Blood and Ghost Love Score, where it is played by Sami Yli-Sirniö, as on albums by Tiamat, Grip Inc., Samael and Waltari. Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell used a guitar-sitar for the song "What the Hell have I"; Type O Negative used a sitar interlude in their song "Less Than Zero" from their 2003 CD Life Is Killing Me. A sitar is prominently featured in Thievery Corporation's "Lebanese Blonde". The band Ra uses the sitar in some if their songs. Jack's Mannequin used a sitar in the choruses and outro of their song "Kill The Messenger". Also, metal band Disturbed uses a sitar in songs such as "Stupify" and "Ten Thousand Fists". The nu-metal pioneers KoRn have also used a sitar in the song "Cameltosis", off of their third album, Follow the Leader. On the new album The Hardest Walk, the band The Soledad Brothers use the sitar in their song "True to Zou Zou". The last track on Pearl Jam's self-titled album has a hidden track that appears just four seconds after the end of "Inside Job"; it is Eddie Vedder playing a melody on a sitar. The sitar features prominently in the song "Petrol and Chlorine" by Silverchair. The Cat Empire have also used a sitar in their song "Cities". The band Stuck Mojo's latest CD Southern Born Killers has extensive sitar samples on the controversial song "Open Season".
