PoisonTheWell

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...

This summer, the odometer of Poison the Well's white 2005 van will finally break the 200,000 miles as the band crisscrosses the nation as part of the 10 for $10 Tour, which boasts a hardcore bill featuring the likes of Terror, Vision, Madball, Death Before Dishonor, War of Ages and This Is Hell...

If you had a dime for every time a hardcore band sang about unity, you'd be picking up change in the pit long after the show ended. But as much of a lyrical cliche as that is, the sense of togetherness the genre inspires was in full force at the New York City stop of the 10 for $10 Tour last week...

After an ill-fated, single-album fling with Atlantic Records, Poison the Well returned to the indie scene both sonically and physically on 2007's 'Versions.' The disc was eclectic and experimental, featuring a progressive smattering of banjo, mandolin and horns between jangly guitars and roaring hardcore riffs...

Finally, it's Friday. We've got just one more week left in July, and then it'll be August already. Boy, did this summer coast by! Maybe that's because we here at Noisecreep have been working hard all summer, to bring you all the latest heavy metal and hard rock news as well as some of the best band interviews around...

It probably played out like a scene in one of those supernatural B-horror movies that flooded the market in the wake of films like "The Grudge." The dudes in Poison the Well were practicing their live set at Ray's Downtown Blues, an old closed down venue in West Palm, Florida, when guitarist Brad Clifford felt someone tap him on the shoulder...

When masses of high school kids suddenly discover extreme metal bands like Suicide Silence and Job For a Cowboy and wear their t-shirts like uniforms, it's a sign that the apocalypse is near, there's lots more cool shit coming before we all go out in a fiery bang, or even if Armageddon never arrives, the inevitable flood of lukewarm imitators is imminent...

On Friday, we caught up with Poison the Well at the "10 for $10" show in New York, and spent some quality time with the boys in their van, which is fast approaching the 200,000-mile mark. All the hardcore kids who showed up seemed rather mellow, at least for the festival's Manhattan stop...

Nothing should prevent heavy music fans from attending the "10 for $10" Hardcore Tour this summer, which kicks off tomorrow in the city of Brotherly Love. (That's Philadelphia, Pa., if you didn't know!) While the buck-per-band concept may be appealing, fans shouldn't let the term "hardcore" throw them off...

Poison The Well - 'Tropic Rot' - Ferret Music Starting off this week's new releases, the post-hardcore outfit we know and love known as Poison The Well dish out the latest with the help of producer Steve Evetts (Every Time I Die, The Cure, Dillinger Escape Plan)...