When a Seattle man was the last man evicted from his Capitol Hill apartment complex, the only thing left was to burn it down with himself inside.

It was the pinnacle of anger over the gentrification of the area, said songwriter Kerry Zettel, who wrote a song about it.

Zettel is returning to Renton for the first time since graduating from Hazen High School, attracted through a small record shop that’s hosting an indie craft and music festival, UnDisCoVerEd, Saturday.

He’s the only the constant in See Me River, and as a songwriter constantly seeking a new sound, he likes it that way. It breaks way to creativity.

Everything in the song, “Ed Jackson,” was true. The man who burnt down the building was his neighbor, he said. “It just really touched me.”

Zettel’s songs come from everything to daily news to a friend’s drug addiction to personal problems.

“Writing is a constant process,” he said. “I don’t know what I’d do if I didn’t.”

He introduces his songs to the band and they build on them, he said. “You give them the core pattern and they add their own element.”

Some call the band folk or country because of the acoustic guitar, others call it gothic rock. With songs named “Don’t Pray for Blood” and “Heroine,” it’s no surprise.

“It has weird psychedelic parts to it,” Zettel added.

He tries to give the music a rich and warm sound.

See Me River released a new album May 11. He recorded it using a two-inch tape to make a “listener in the room type sound” instead of “overproduced” digital, he said.

“The One That Got a Wake,” the song the album is named for, has catchy beat and opens with a deep country and blues tone. However, an electric guitar breaks the song into a rock and psychedelic fusion. It can withstand several listens.

Zettel attended Hazen High School in the late ’90s, where he remembers a small-town atmosphere.

“You spend a lot time smoking in the park and hanging out at Denny’s,” he said with a laugh.

He had loved music since a kid, learning the guitar at age 7.

“We had a little punk rock scene,” he said. “We had to create our own music scene.”

He moved to Seattle after he graduated, and didn’t looked back until Tyrannosaurus Records (TRx) owner Nich Sullivan asked him to come back.

“I really love his albums,” he said. “It all just happened to work.”

Chris “Bob” Anderson, who runs the TRx recording studio was friends with Zettel at Hazen.

It will be Zettel’s first show in Renton in about 15 years, he said.

“It’s cool, because it’s not a bad town,” he said. “I’m really stoked.