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.Like the band, the "kids" wouldn't have it any other way. Poison The Well's  audience is always up for the challenge.  A 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.The album is imbibed with grooving swampiness and esoteric contemplation,  all anchored by the brutal stomp that has been imitated by many in the  year's since PTW first emerged, but never duplicated. Written over the past  year and recorded in Sweden with producers Pelle Henricsson and Eskil  Lovstro -- the masterminds responsible for Refused's "The Shape of Punk to  Come" -- the album is a mission statement from a band renewed and resolved  to conquer new artistic ground at every turn, on their own terms.