Poison the Parish by Seether

Poison the Parish, the seventh studio album from South Africa's Seether, landed on 12 May 2017, the follow-up to Isolate and Medicate and the first of their records to wear the band's new logo on the cover. The core was the familiar trio: Shaun Morgan, the last original member, singing and handling most of the guitar parts himself, Dale Stewart on bass and John Humphrey on drums.

It's a heavy, grinding record, all sludgy riffs and Morgan's throat-scraping snarl. "Let You Down" led the charge as the first single in February and gave them another number one on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, and the band kept feeding songs out well into the following year, from "Stoke the Fire" and "Count Me Out" to "Betray and Degrade" and, in April 2018, "Against the Wall". Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum came next.

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