Let You Down (Seether song)

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"Let You Down"
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Single by Seether
from the album Poison the Parish
ReleasedFebruary 23, 2017 (2017-02-23)
Recorded2016
Studio Blackbird (Nashville, Tennessee)
Genre Alternative metal
Length4:10
Songwriter(s) Shaun Morgan
Producer(s) Shaun Morgan
Seether singles chronology
"Save Today"
(2015)
"Let You Down"
(2017)
"Betray and Degrade"
(2017)

"Let You Down" is a song by South African rock band Seether. It is the first single from their seventh studio album Poison the Parish . It peaked at number one on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2017.

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Background

The song was first revealed on February 23, 2017, the same day the band announced their seventh album – Poison the Parish . [1] A music video was released on the same day of the song's release, which features many ominous, masked and cloaked carnival-themed people roaming through an open field. [2] The footage cuts back and forth between the figures and the band performing in a dark, secluded cabin. [3]

Composition and themes

The track was self-produced by band frontman and lead vocalist Shaun Morgan, and was meant to represent the band's return to a heavier rock sound found in their earlier albums. [4] Loudwire described the chorus as being "a little bit of an emotional reprieve" to the song's verses, calling it "sonically uplifting, but lyrically despondent." [2] A few publications noted a similarity in the guitar riff and chord progression of the song to Chevelle's 2014 single "Take Out the Gunman", Live's 1997 single "Lakini's Juice" and Tool's 1996 single "Stinkfist". [5] [6] [7]

Personnel

Charts

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