Seventeen years of silence, and the press rolls out the carpet: 80/100 across five reviews for Peace In Place, one of the best-received comebacks of the year. Metal Hammer (9/10) settles it up front: the « metalcore pioneers’ comeback proves worth the long wait ». Distorted Sound (9/10) prefers the blue-collar image: « metalcore that was written in a garage after a ten-hour factory shift, get it in your heavily tattooed head ».
The consensus is clear: Poison The Well return without self-parody, and Blabbermouth (7/10) hails « a brave and absorbing return to action » that should « delight the faithful and draw plenty of new acolytes ». Kerrang! (8/10) confirms there is « a distinct air of it being a Poison The Well record » — while slipping in the caveat that matters.
Because the reservation exists, shared by the two coolest voices: nothing here is « quite as unhinged or freewheeling » as the pre-hiatus classics (Kerrang!), and Sputnikmusic (7/10) misses the « vibrancy and sense of risk » of the early records. A « solid and efficiently made » album rather than a revolution — but after seventeen years, nobody is complaining. The public follows at 73/100.