Poison The Well vocalist Jeffrey Moreira has shared some insight into the origins of the cover art for his band’s newly revealed comeback album “Peace In Place“. As it turns out, the teeth featured on that effort are a dental mold of his own chompers. That mold was taken roughly a decade ago, when he fractured a molar while eating a Wendy‘s salad.
In a new interview with Revolver, he said of sustaining that injury, “This is the stupidest shit ever: I was eating a Wendy‘s salad, and I swear there was a rock in it… I guess I bite pretty hard!” While the injury left him in subsequent pain for roughly a year before he got it fixed, his dental mold has remained with him and been a source of fascination of sorts, as he told the aforementioned publication:
“It was really the first time that I had seen that part of my body. That mold showed me a part of me that I could never actually see,” he says. “I can stand up to a mirror and pull my gums back and try to look back that far into my mouth, but you’re not going to get a good view of it. It’s not like sitting there with the mold, [where] you can see every crack at every angle of that tooth… I felt like the teeth ended up being like this symbol for what the record could be. This record is the teeth that I get to leave behind.’”
The influential metalcore outfit are scheduled to release “Peace In Place” on March 20th. A music video for the first single from it, “Thoroughbreds“, debuted earlier this week. Moreira also offered some insight into that track in this latest chat, telling Revolver it was in part about the way some of his youthful friendships didn’t stand the test of time. He explained:
“I always thought that we would be friends for the rest of our lives. Just because we had made it so long, [I was] like, ‘These people will be a part of my life for the remainder of it, because our bonds are so strong, and we’ve been able to overcome so much stuff throughout the years.’ That actually never happened… Some of my closest friendships that I’ve had for a large part of my life have evaporated in sad ways. A lot of the times I would be like, ‘This seems really stupid that we no longer have a relationship.’ That’s what this song is about.”
