"Against the Wall" is a song by South African

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band

Seether Seether are a South African rock band founded in 1999 in Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa. The band originally performed under the name Saron Gas until 2002, when they moved to the United States and changed it to Seether to avoid confusion wit ...

. It was their third single from their seventh album, ''

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''. As of August 2018, it had peaked number 19 on the ''

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'' Mainstream Rock Songs chart.

Background

The song was released as the third single from their sixth studio album ''

'' in April 2018. Alternate from the studio and single release, the band also released a separate acoustic recording of the song as well. The acoustic version features

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Shaun Morgan Shaun Morgan Welgemoed (, born 21 December 1978) is a South African musician. He is the singer, songwriter, and guitarist for the rock band Seether. Early life Morgan spent most of his early life in South Africa.Bottomley, CSeether: South Afr ...

on vocals and Sevendust's Clint Lowery on

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, who has served as a touring member of the band when not active with Sevendust. A

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of the acoustic version of the song was released as well, featuring Morgan and Lowery performing the song in the studio in

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Themes and composition

The song was described as a mid-tempo

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similar to the work of the

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. The studio and single version of the song features a dense, layered production of electric guitars, bass guitar, and drums, while the separate acoustic recording is a more mellow, sparse production of just rough vocals and acoustic guitar.

Personnel

Album/single version *

– lead vocals, guitar *

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– bass, backing vocals * John Humphrey – drums Acoustic version *

– vocals * Clint Lowery – guitar

Charts

References

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