Versions

Versions

Poison The Well's new album, Versions, is about to turn the heavy music landscape upside down. And in case you somehow missed the last few years: that's just par for the course. The band could have easily recreated the seminal fury of The Opposite of December or Tear from the Red. Or rested on the laurels of the creative apex of 2003's You Come Before You. Instead, the band's Ferret Music debut is nothing less than the next step-forward for the entire genre. Combined sales of over 300,000 records (in the US alone) is ample evidence that what the Florida band has been doing since 1998 -- combining brutal dirges with moody experimentation -- has connected with the people who have seen them on Warped Tour and Sounds Of The Underground. Like their tour-mates in the Deftones, Thrice or Cursive, Poison The Well is not afraid to push the envelope, and their supporters always choose to follow -- even when corporate America craps its pants.

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