Photo by Sarai Kelley

The next generation of metalcore may have all of the buzz coming their way at this very moment, but nobody does it better than the scene’s originators. Nearly 30 years ago, Poison The Well changed the game with their seminal debut album, The Opposite of December… A Season of Separation, a listen which laid the blueprint for the genre’s sound with seismic-shattering riffs and drum boulders toppled with screaming anthems. We still hear the echoes of it resonating loudly today.

In the years since the Floridian band’s post-reunion reconvention a decade ago, all of that heavy of the heaviest matter has seemingly only intensified on “Thoroughbreds”, the lead single off their first new album in 17 years, Peace In Place. The wreckage here is a communal one, as vocalist Jeffrey Moreira leads their return charge through this darkest timeline with nothing in fear on what’s on the other end beyond the ghosts that meet their collective force. “Your voice kills mine / Your cuts are mine / Your end is mine.” Poison The Well have come back to haunt us just in the nick of time…

Poison the Well’s Peace In Place will be released March 20th on Sharptone Records.