{"id":2404918,"date":"2026-05-06T17:57:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2404918"},"modified":"2026-05-06T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:57:58","slug":"after-a-16-year-wait-poison-the-well-deliver-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/after-a-16-year-wait-poison-the-well-deliver-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"After A 16-Year Wait Poison The Well Deliver New Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"articleBody\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p><span class=\"lead\">Poison The Well&#8217;s lead guitarist Ryan Primack muses on catharsis and returning with new music 16-plus years since their previous studio album.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We often view time as an arcade, a dimly lit path with a dazzling light at the end all conceptualised by the fear of the journey and its inevitable destination.<\/p>\n<p>For Poison The Well, times&#8217; passage is an illuminated road trip through shifting slopes and wind-battered bends; so much so, the thought of destination dissolves.<\/p>\n<p>Their journey becomes about looking out the window, absorbing life as they pass through it before it combines into a mature myriad of catharsis.<\/p>\n<p>That catharsis became their next stop, &#8216;Peace In Place&#8217;. &#8220;I think catharsis or tension that doesn&#8217;t really release until the very last possible minute is something that I always aim to try to capture a sound of,&#8221; Ryan says.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wf-responsive-container wf-responsive-container-full\" role=\"figure\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poison The Well - Everything Hurts (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kTsciyHOsj4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>When asked what it&#8217;s like to be back after a 16-year hiatus, Ryan pauses momentarily, merely a blip, before saying with one-word wonderment, &#8220;surreal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>A truer word could not be expanded by fans, who after Poison The Well dropped two new tracks, &#8216;Thoroughbreds&#8217; and &#8216;Everything Hurts&#8217;, earlier this year, flocked to social media to announce their various degrees of shock-laced excitement. . . like no time had passed.<\/p>\n<p>Released in March, &#8216;Peace In Place&#8217; doses you in a sense of apricity within metamorphosis, ruminative of the pilgrimage one must take to become the person you are today.<\/p>\n<p>Heavy in their foundational metalcore sound, the track list transitions the listener through shared pain, self-reflection, control and growth.<\/p>\n<p>Songs such as &#8216;Wax Mask&#8217;, &#8216;A Wake Of Vultures&#8217; and &#8216;Weeping Tones&#8217; amplify necessary transitions from the past to the future being.<\/p>\n<p>When discussing the metalcore genre and its descriptive shrinking to &#8216;loud&#8217; and\/ or &#8216;angry&#8217;, Ryan traverses his own experiences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being a person that plays aggressive music, I always want to fight away from it being one dimensional because angry music really isn&#8217;t just angry because it&#8217;s frustrated, it&#8217;s sad, it&#8217;s contemplative, it&#8217;s dismissed. It&#8217;s all of those things all at once.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"wf-responsive-container wf-responsive-container-full\" role=\"figure\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Poison The Well - Thoroughbreds (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkNroy6Tvy4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Primack then circles back to catharsis. &#8220;Once you get through ten or so songs of that, I think you automatically feel a catharsis because there&#8217;s a level of release, like a bunch of different facets got touched.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel like they&#8217;ve sort of exercised for lack of a better word. Anger is just a nice word that people use to tie up all of those emotions at once. I really want to try to represent all of those kinds of feelings.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As pioneers of metalcore, Poison The Well encase their songs in instruments that do not compete but beat the skull in combative, home-driving breakdowns.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Peace In Place&#8217; shadows the heaviest to lightest emotions, drowning the mind in a cacophony of pivotal imagery and injecting the self with thrumming adrenaline akin to the same sound as a horror movie soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan explores the influences of the album, notably mentioning Italian composer Ennio Morricone (who worked on films such as &#8216;The Thing&#8217; and &#8216;Kill Bill&#8217; as well as all of Sergio Leone&#8217;s movies) and, fascinatingly, John Barry who worked on early James Bond soundtracks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Growing up, my dad was a French horn player and so orchestral music was always a part of my life,&#8221; Ryan says.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I definitely leaned in pretty hard when I got into my early 20s, learning about a lot of that soundtrack stuff. It definitely creeps in the sense of drama [that] you don&#8217;t get in any other kind of music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Poison The Well 2026 Tour Dates<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Sun 7 Jun &#8211; Magnet House (Perth)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Tue 9 Jun &#8211; Lion Arts Factory (Adelaide)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Thu 11 Jun &#8211; 170 Russell (Melbourne)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Fri 12 Jun &#8211; Metro Theatre (Sydney)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sat 13 Jun &#8211; King Street Bandroom (Newcastle)<\/strong><br \/><strong>Sun 14 Jun &#8211; The Princess Theatre (Brisbane)<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DXlYqMhE7Bb\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source scenestr.com.au \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poison The Well&#8217;s lead guitarist Ryan Primack muses on catharsis and returning with new music 16-plus years since their previous studio album. 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