After exploring elements of country music during 2007's Versions, Poison the Well revisit the lean machinations of hardcore punk with Tropic Rot. Gone are the mandolins, banjos, and acoustic guitars that added relief to the band's pummeling assault. Instead, Poison the Well return their focus the dividing line between melody and abrasion, often exploring both sides during the same song. Much of the grunt work is done by frontman Jeffrey Moreira, who screams his throat raw or sings in a brooding, alt rock croon according to the songs' demands, while his bandmates brew up ominous concoctions beneath him. Tropic Rot flirts with electronics and briefly references the western sounds that dominated Versions, but it defiantly lacks the liberal agenda of the band's last album, wishing to breathe new life into the hardcore realm rather than break the genre's conventions. As such, this is a fairly confident return to form, and longtime fans will likely file the album alongside The Opposite of December.
Poison The Well are one of those bands that emerged from the mid/late-1990s hardcore punk scene in the USA at a time of change and experimentation, when terminology like ‘metalcore’, ‘emocore’ and ‘jazzcore’ was used more as a joke on flyers, than a real effort in making concrete assumptions on a band’s sound by marketing [...]
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Before you listen to this album, it might be worth considering that this is a very different beast that the one entitled Versions which they gave us back in 2007. Some people, including us, enjoyed the western-tinged shenanigans and new-found sense of dynamic structure.
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Poison The Well are one of those bands that emerged from the mid/late-1990s hardcore punk scene in the USA at a time of change and experimentation, when terminology like ‘metalcore’, ‘emocore’ and ‘jazzcore’ was used more as a joke on flyers, than a real effort in making concrete assumptions on a band’s sound by marketing [...]
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Before you listen to this album, it might be worth considering that this is a very different beast that the one entitled Versions which they gave us back in 2007. Some people, including us, enjoyed the western-tinged shenanigans and new-found sense of dynamic structure.
More >
Poison The Well have released a new video for ‘Exist Underground’ from their latest release The Tropic Rot. Looks to me like Poison The Well playing a New Brunswick (or your local college town with a scene) basement show.
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Poison The Well – Exist Undergroundpoison the well have launched the first video from their new album the tropic rot. it’s pretty apparent that all the guys wanna do is jam and break shit. i still think makeshift clay you would have been a better first single
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Miami’s Poison The Well have just announced that after the first night of their US tour w/ Canadian rock act Billy Talent, in support of their new album “The Tropic Rot” (out now on Ferret Music), the band has been robbed of both their touring van and all of their instruments and personal belongings.Says the [...]
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