“Let You Down” by Seether

"Let You Down" kicked off the Poison the Parish era for Seether: the South African band unveiled it the same day they announced their seventh album, and it went out as the record's first single. Shaun Morgan wrote it, sings it, plays electric guitar on it and produced it himself, with a clear goal of hauling the band back to the heavier rock of their early albums. Dale Stewart is on bass, John Humphrey is on drums, and Matt Hyde engineered and mixed.

Loudwire heard a chorus that gives the verses some emotional relief, lifting the sound while the words stay grim. The video leans into the gloom, cutting between masked, cloaked carnival figures wandering an open field and the band playing in a dark, out-of-the-way cabin. It went all the way to number one on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart.

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