Metalcore veterans Poison The Well are officially back with a full-length release. The band will drop Peace In Place, their first new album since 2009, on March 20 through SharpTone Records.
The rollout is already moving fast. The Chris Candy-directed video for the second single, “Everything Hurts,” is out now, giving fans another taste of where the band’s head is at in 2026.
Vocalist Jeffrey Moreira opened up about what it means to return after such a long gap: “Joining Poison The Well at 18 and chasing music shaped how I approach life. Coming back 16 years later — unsure if I could still do what I once left behind — only reinforced how strong our bond is and how much this band has given me. I’m grateful to do this again with my friends, and to share a record made with honesty, intention and connection at its core.”
The first single, previously released, “Thoroughbreds,” set the tone with lyrics centered on loyalty, endurance, and the slow collapse of relationships you once trusted. Moreira explained the track’s meaning directly: “Beasts of burden are hard to break — not because they’re strong, but because they’re stubborn. “Thoroughbreds” is about realizing that some lifelong bonds don’t fail early; they fail after you believed they were there to stay.”
“”Everything Hurts” is about the patience and effort it takes to keep relationships alive,” Moreira said in a statement. “I care deeply about the people in my life, but even the people you love can be frustrating sometimes. And it’s important to remember that we can be just as frustrating to them. We all have our moments — and I have my moments too. The ones that stick around are the ones you have a unique connection with. You can’t put up with everyone’s shit, so the people you keep close are the ones whose shit you actually want to deal with.”
For longtime listeners, Peace In Place also serves as the follow-up to The Tropic Rot, and Moreira describes it as one of the band’s heaviest emotional statements yet: “Peace In Place is probably the most pissed record we’ve ever made. After stepping away from Poison The Well, it felt like all the emotion from that time — frustration, heartache, disappointment — compressed into something heavy and unavoidable. But anger isn’t what drives us. Connection is. Sometimes that connection starts in darker places, and having an outlet for those emotions is how we find our way forward. This record lives across that entire spectrum. It’s about turning something negative into something honest, putting it into the world, and realizing that even in anger, we’re still capable of moving forward, relating to each other, and finding some form of peace — if not happiness, then at least a place to stand.”
With Peace In Place arriving March 20, Poison The Well are stepping back into the scene with a record shaped by time, distance, and the kind of intensity that never really fades.
