Poison the Well

Metal and hardcore fans know Trustkill Records as one of the defining independent labels of the previous decade, having introduced the scene to bands like Poison the Well, Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, Throwdown and Bullet for My Valentine, to name a select few...

Trustkill Records owner Josh Grabelle isn't new to the hardcore and metalcore party. He's got roots and cred that he earned putting on shows in his parents' basement after attending his first hardcore show at the Jersey shore in the summer of '88...

Poison the Well's first studio album, 'The Opposite of December,' is celebrating its 10th birthday, and the band has been receiving much attention for it. Still together, since 1997, the band has reached a landmark status for surviving in a genre where many bands break up and make up all too often...

A wall of girls held onto the barricade Oct. 8. Were they waiting for headliners Billy Talent or just scared of the melodic metalcore men in Poison the Well? Maybe it was a bit of both as frontman Jeffrey Moreira quickly shifted the mood from clean singing to raging hardcore screaming in true PTW style...

Most critics and metal fans agree that many of today's metalcore bands were undoubtedly influenced by a handful of albums that reared their heads in the late '90s and early '00s. They are as follows: Converge's 'Petitioning the Empty Sky'; Dillinger Escape Plan's 'Calculating Infinity'; Shai Hulud's 'Hearts Once Nourished With Hope and Compassion'; Cave In's 'Until Your Heart Stops'; and Poison th

Canada's Billy Talent, one of the country's biggest new rock bands, released their new album, 'Billy Talent III,' in America today and are currently on tour with Poison the Well until Oct. 9. Frontman Ben Kowalewicz, guitarist Ian D'Sa, drummer Aaron Solowoniuk and bassist Jon Gallant recorded 'Billy Talent III' with Atlanta's Brendan O'Brien, producer of Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and the la

After the first night on tour with Canadian rock act Billy Talent, Miami's Poison the Well have awoken in Detroit to find their van and gear stolen. As posted on their MySpace earlier, the band reports: "So this morning we woke up at our delightful Marriot Courtyard hotel (priceline, get into it) and walked outside to get in the van to head to Chicago for our second show of the tour... Read M

Illegal downloading has hobbled the music industry over the last decade, and try as they might, labels and musicians have been unable to quell online leaks and file sharing. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em, right? Late last night, the publicists for Smashing Pumpkins issued a press release announcing that Billy Corgan, the band's sole remaining founding member, would be releasing a new album call

On Friday, we were in Camden, N.J., all afternoon, for the Rockstar Mayhem tour. But being members of the illustrious fourth estate, we spent much of our time backstage. While you were out there watching the bands slay, or perusing glass pipes and T-shirts with cuss words emblazoned across 'em, the real action was happening behind the scenes...

Long Island, N.Y. is known for many things. The Big Duck, for instance. The Hamptons. The L.I.E. Amy Fisher. It's where guys like Jerry Seinfeld and Billy Joel grew up. It even has its own intoxicating brand of iced tea. But for some of us, Long Island will always be known as a breeding ground for some of the hardest-hitting music of the late '90s...