A high-energy live concert photograph of the band Poison The Well performing at Crowbar in Tampa on March 23, 2026. Vocalist Jeffrey Moreira, with a beard and wearing a black t-shirt, shouts into a microphone on the left. Beside them, a guitarist in a white t-shirt plays a light-colored electric guitar with an intense, open-mouthed expression. Several fans' arms are raised in the foreground, reaching toward the stage under blue and white stage lights.
Poison The Well plays Crowbar in Ybor City, Florida on March 23, 2026. Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

Poison The Well brought a new album, Peace In Place, to Ybor City last night, and there was nothing quiet about it.

The Florida hardcore band had not released a record in 15 years, and fans seemed well rested last night when Poison The Well brought its comeback to Crowbar in Ybor City, a venue that is in the midst of a long goodbye that will wrap before August.

Contention, a Tampa straight edge hardcore band doing the Florida run with Poison The Well, laid down some roses in the opening set for the sold-out show.

Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Poison The Well Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay
Contention Credit: Kirsten Clauser / Creative Loafing Tampa Bay

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This article appears in Mar. 19 – 25, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...