Poison The Well vocalist Jeffrey Moreira recently spoke with Kerrang! for a newly published cover story tied to the band’s long-awaited new album, Peace In Place.

While Poison The Well are now widely viewed as melodic metalcore pioneers, the group didn’t exactly get much love from the wave of bands that followed in the years after their 2010 hiatus. Though there were a few brief reunions, the band didn’t become a consistently active legacy act until 2020.

That narrative shifted in 2024 when Poison The Well revealed they had been working on their first new studio album in 15 years. Peace In Place is set for release on March 20th.

In the interview, Moreira discussed the new record and also touched on the band’s impact, though he appears content to keep things humble when it comes to their influence, sharing:

I don’t feel like, ‘We walked so those bands could run!’ or anything like that [laughs.] They had to leave stuff behind, spend years on tour, play shit venues, and slowly build themselves to this point. That’s what anyone does following their dream. It’s great that fans are more accepting now. We were called sell-outs just for signing to Atlantic, even though we put out arguably the heaviest record on Atlantic at that point. I’m happy that bands don’t have to deal with that shit anymore.

I don’t know if there are remnants of PTW still hanging in the atmosphere of this current scene – if there are, they’re barely-perceptible wisps of smoke – but hopefully that much broader fanbase of acts like Spiritbox or Knocked Loose will go back and discover some of the awesome bands that came before.

 

In a promising development, Peace In Place may not be a one-off return, as Poison The Well have reportedly already begun discussing a potential seventh studio album to follow it.

Moreira added:

We’re writing to fulfil the things we love in this band. If any of us wanted to do anything different, we’d start another band. Whether that’s made for ‘a classic’ is something that only time will tell. On ‘The Opposite Of December…’, we were just trying to get people to sing along. On ‘You Come Before You’, we wanted to have the heaviest record on a major label. Here we wanted an album that tastefully and respectfully understands what Poison The Well is – and an acknowledgement that Jeffrey likes a bunch of heavy shit.

Beyond that? We’ve already talked about writing more songs. And more than the songs themselves, I think it’s a good sign that we’re already talking about the next record. Seeing the outcome of our labours has been a big motivator. It hasn’t been easy. There were a bunch of blockades. But having that finished vinyl in your hands gives you such a massive high. So I guess now we’ll just keep making music until we don’t want to anymore – or until there’s no-one left to listen…

 

The long running metalcore band have several live performances lined up including an album release tour in Florida, a North American run with Converge and a few festival stops. 

03/20 Miami, FL @ Las Rosas #
03/21 Ft. Lauderdale @ Culture Room #
03/23 Tampa, FL @ Crowbar #
03/24 Orlando, FL @ Conduit #
04/02 Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues *
04/03 Chicago, IL @ Concord Music Hall *
04/04 Pontiac, MI @ The Crofoot *
04/06 Pittsburgh, PA @ Preserving Underground *
04/07 Toronto, ON @ HISTORY *
04/09 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium *
04/10 Queens, NY @ Knockdown Center *
04/11 Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore *
04/12 Baltimore, MD @ Nevermore Hall *
04/25 Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World *
05/07 Denver, CO @ Summit ^
05/09 Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Outdoors ^
05/10 Houston, TX @ House of Blues ^
05/12 Phoenix, AZ @ Nile Theater ^
05/13 Los Angeles, CA @ The Belasco ^
05/15 Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues ^
05/16 San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park ^
05/17 San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom ^
05/30 Toyko, JAP @ Bloodaxe Festival
10/24 Ft Worth, TX @ Sick New World

# = with Contention and Domain
* = with SPY and Balmora
^ = with The Armed and The Barbarians Of California