Poison the Well Albums Ranked

Poison the Well is an American metalcore band from Miami, Florida who were last signed to Ferret Music. In 2010, they announced a hiatus to explore other interests. Lead guitarist Ryan Primack and drummer Christopher Hornbrook were the only remaining founding members, although vocalist Jeffrey Moreira featured on all five of their full-length albums. The band has since performed several reunion shows: two in 2015, eleven in 2016 and one in 2020. Poison the Well was originally formed under the name Doubting Thomas by lead vocalist Aryeh Lehrer and lead guitarist Ryan Primack in the autumn of 1997. Lehrer was responsible for coining the name Doubting Thomas. The band was originally based in Coral Springs, Florida, where the two attended J. P. Taravella High School, but later moved to a rehearsal space in Miami, Florida. Lehrer, who had previously played in the band Reaching Out, recruited rhythm guitarist Russel Saunders, formerly of the band Side Order, and bassist Shane Halpern who had recently moved from North Carolina down to Florida. Here are all of Poison the Well albums ranked.

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5. Versions 

“It feels like a bit more of a straight forward post-hardcore endeavour than previous projects – there’s a lot more sonic nuance in this album than there was in previous instalments of the band that eventually decided to channel their inner Deftones, which could just as easily be attributed to sonic maturity as it could Jeffrey Moreira wanting to save his voice from total collapse.”

4. The Tropic Rot 

“Tropic Rot is a really cool record that rivals The Opposite of December as being their most focused and aggressive, and You Come Before You as their most interesting and accessible. Besides the mediocre “Celebrate the Pyre”, every song here is a hit, in particular…well everything. The light country aesthetic is more fully integrated in the clean sections, which meld seamlessly with the heavy metal sections. It’s tough to call this a real metalcore album, but whatever the hell it is, it is fucking great. Could bump up to a 4.5 if it stays on this level of excellence with time.”

3. Tear From The Red 

“My favorite album of theirs by far would be this one. This album is responsible for getting me into metal/hardcore scene. I remember the first time I heard this album, I bought it from word of mouth….I had no idea what they were gonna sound like. The very begining was very misleading. I thought it was gonna be some what soft and emo then it breaks into those hardcore 3 chord progression with screams. I was in love.”

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2. You Come Before You 

“This nice work, thanks to its experimental moments, its violent yet not MUTHAFUCKINYEAAAAH attitude and a nice songwriting, shows that at least not every ‘metalcore’ band is all that bad. They refuse a lot of the typical stereotypes of the genre they’re often compared to (and they’ve started from) which makes it an enjoyable listening, however it suffers for its length. After the fourth songs it starts to gets annoying until the last three.”

1. The Opposite Of December 

“This album was probably the first succesful fusion of metalcore and emo, and possibly invented the practice of spending more than half of each song playing one-chord breakdowns – not to mention that they had one of the first “Verb the Noun” band names. As such, its negative influence is incalculable. Should Poison the Well be executed for crimes against music? No. No, they should not. While every fucking awful scenecore band copies the shit out of this album – probably without even knowing it – the original is still a fantastic piece of music.”