Tear from the Red is the sophomore full-length album by American metalcore band Poison the Well. It was released on February 19, 2002 via Trustkill Records. The album was the band's first release to appear on Billboard's Independent Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts, in March 2002, and was responsible for landing Poison the Well a major record label deal. It also featured the band's first single and music video for "Botchla". The release received numerous reissues on various formats over the years through such record labels as Good Life Recordings, Roadrunner Records, Shock Records, Rise Records, Ides of March and Undying Music, and was digitally remastered in 2012.

In promotion of the album, Poison the Well toured the United States several times between November 2001 and October 2002, crossing into Canada twice. The bands that accompanied Poison the Well on these tours include Unearth, Sworn Enemy, Hatebreed, God Forbid, Shadows Fall, American Nightmare, Converge, Most Precious Blood, No Warning, Throwdown, Bane, Hemlock, Eighteen Visions, Codeseven, From Autumn to Ashes, Blood Has Been Shed, Glassjaw, Recover, Vex Red, Strung Out, Rise Against, Rufio, Kittie, Killswitch Engage, The Promise Ring, The International Noise Conspiracy, Thursday, Cursive, The Lawrence Arms and Common Rider. Poison the Well also performed at notable festivals like Stillborn Festival in West Babylon, New York, the New England Metal and Hardcore Festival in Worcester, Connecticut, Start Your Lawnmower in Cleveland, Ohio and the Skate and Surf Festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey.

Not unlike The Opposite of December... A Season of Separation's previous promotional tours, Tear from the Red's tours also featured a great deal of member changes for Poison the Well. The album was recorded with vocalist Jeffrey Moreira, bassist Iano Dovi, drummer Christopher Hornbrook and guitarists Ryan Primack and Derek Miller. During the ensuing tours, Dovi was replaced, first by Nicolas Schuhmann, then by Geoffrey Bergman, the later of which remained with the band to record their follow-up You Come Before You. Moreira also suffered throat problems early in the touring season, a complication that had surfaced at the end of The Opposite of December... A Season of Separation's promotional tours; Poison the Well's roadie Rick filled in as vocalist for a handful of shows.