POISON THE WELL released the definitive album The Opposite of December… A Season of Separation in December 1999 and it went on to become a benchmark of the genre that has inspired a generation of bands. But the band is not content to rest on the laurels of its past achievements, as mighty as those achievements are.
Instead, PTW are looking forward in 2025 by releasing their first new song in 15 years with Trembling Level.
Trembling Level finds Poison The Well in top form. Harmonics pierce the armour of a thick riff, and a guttural groove tosses and turns beneath Jeff Moreira’s hard-hitting screams. The barrage subsides on an arresting bridge anchored by a dramatic drumroll. A final melodic warning, “Don’t you let the silhouettes lead you to the ocean floor,” gives way to one last pit-splitting breakdown.
“For me, I was trying to figure how to effectively incorporate elements from our whole discography into one song,” guitarist Ryan Primack reveals. “We ended up with this, and it has a little bit of everything we’ve done throughout the course of our existence.”
