The Miami metalcore band have released just five full-length albums over the more than quarter century that they’ve been making dynamic, hard-hitting music—but in fits and starts, Poison the Well have reshaped the genre through their concise discography. Perhaps most influential is the critically acclaimed You Come Before You, the band’s sole major-label release (on Atlantic), which has been praised as one of the best metal albums this century so far. Songs like the unexpectedly lyric “A) The View from Here Is… B) A Brick Wall” and “Apathy Is a Cold Body” showed the band’s singular approach, and earned them an international fanbase. But even their debut, The Opposite of December... A Season of Separation, earned Poison the Well considerable attention and has retrospectively been seen as a formative entry in metalcore thanks to songs like the relentlessly cathartic “Nerdy” and “Slice Paper Wrists”. The band has broken up and changed lineups many times since its 1999 genesis, but continues to release innovative, edgy songs on the forefront of the genre.