Multi-platinum Canadian rock icons Alexisonfire have announced the 19th March 2027 release of their brand new studio album, “Bleed It”, via Dine Alone Records.
Never an easy band to pigeonhole, the Ontario five-piece of George Pettit, Dallas Green, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele and Jordan Hastings have always incorporated a diverse array of influences.
“Bleed It”, their second album since reuniting in 2015, is their most adventurous record yet. While there’s no shortage of the band’s trademark ferocity, the album is distinguished by rich dynamic shifts, spacious arrangements and industrial-tinged electronica.
Today, they offer a peek into the LP by way of lead-single “Push the River”, which propels the band’s blueprint forward, combining sky-scraping guitar riffs and galvanising vocals with an undercurrent of whirring beats.
On the track the band say:
“‘Push the River’ is an anthem for the restless mind. It is about surrendering to the bedlam of one’s own thoughts and finding peace in the chaos of the everyday task that is living and loving”.
Watch the music video for “Push the River”, directed by Vanessa Heins, below.
This new chapter follows a landmark 2026 for Alexisonfire, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of their platinum-selling, chart-topping album Crisis with two sold-out nights at Toronto’s RBC Amphitheatre, selling over 32,000 tickets. The band also co-headlined arena shows with Billy Talent at London’s OVO Wembley Arena and Montreal’s Bell Centre, performed Crisis in full headlining UK’s Outbreak Festival and returned to Vans Warped Tour. The year will close with a South American run, which saw venues upgraded due to overwhelming demand, followed by Australia’s Good Things Festival in December, alongside Limp Bizkit.
Alexisonfire weren’t expecting to make an album that sounded like “Bleed It”, but they view this sonic evolution as a logical progression from their last album, 2022’s “Otherness”. “We’ve always been interested in pushing the band in a lot of different directions, and our influences are all over the place”, says MacNeil. “And because we’ve been a band for so long at this point, we’re capable of pulling it off”.
“Bleed It” started in an unusual way for Alexisonfire: with the band getting together at Revolution Recording in Toronto with no songs pre-written. 16 months of open-ended demo sessions lent themselves to a different way of writing music. Instead of bringing guitar riffs into the studio, Green put together “simple instrumental moods”, like drum loops or a melody-less electronic piece, that the band could play along to in the studio.
As the sessions unfolded, Alexisonfire found themselves gaining creative momentum. Working with producer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket, Jim James), who also plays drums for the Louisville post-rock band Elliott, they continued to explore more ideas at Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, a legendary studio in the middle of a pecan orchard not far from the Mexican border. “We really liked the demos. But Kevin allowed the songs to bloom and become this new thing”, Pettit says. “It’s obviously a very diverse record but he found a cohesive way to make them blend together”.
That sense of openness and collaboration also informed the way Alexisonfire approached ‘Bleed It’s lyrics. “Instead of treating it like a segmented thing where ‘I do this, and you do that’, we are all one”, Green says. “All five of us make this band. So why not treat the songwriting this way?”…
“Lyrically, that’s me exploring the general existentialist dilemma of being faced by the mystery of life, and being faced by brutality, but still choosing to partake in the world around you”, Pettit says. “And then you start to see love as this really remarkable thing that exists in defiance of a seemingly brutal and uncaring world. Love is this anomaly of evolution”.
MacNeil concludes, “We made the record we didn’t set out to make, which ended up being the best conceivable thing we could have done”.
Pre-orders for physical editions begin Friday 13th November at 3pm (UK) via the band’s official store here, and Dine Alone Store here. Additional retailer-exclusive variants will be released at various times, beginning this Friday with Equal Vision Records and Banquet Records in the UK at 4pm (UK).
“Bleed It” will be available on CD, cassette and vinyl, including a variety of limited-edition colour vinyl options. Each double LP is housed in a spot-gloss gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves.
Tracklist:
1. Within Within Within
2. Push the River
3. What’s Left to Know but Love
4. Dogs of Chernobyl
5. Small Eternity
6. Forever Free
7. Congregation
8. Spider’s Dream
9. My Blood is Yours
10. Holy Mother
11. Tread Lightly, Child
12. Milk
13. Iron Flowers for Suzie
14. Crushing Black
In support of “Bleed It”, Alexisonfire will embark on a massive co-headline US tour with Miami metalcore pioneers Poison the Well. The dates kick off 25th March 2027 in Dallas at South Side Ballroom and conclude in Boston at House of Blues on 27th April 2027. Along the way the tour will make stops at Brooklyn Paramount in New York City on 14th April and in Los Angeles at Hollywood Palladium on 2nd April. LA hardcore mainstays Touché Amoré will support on all dates.
Tickets are on-sale here and all shows are listed below. Alexisonfire and Poison the Well have partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 from every ticket sold goes towards safeguarding people experiencing homelessness and ending the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
US Tour Dates 2027:
Mar 25, 2027 – South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX
Mar 26, 2027 – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
Mar 27, 2027 – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX
Mar 30, 2027 – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
Mar 31, 2027 – Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV
Apr 2, 2027 – Hollywood Palladium – Los Angeles, CA
Apr 3, 2027 – Channel 24 – Sacramento, CA
Apr 4, 2027 – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA
Apr 6, 2027 – The Union Event Center – Salt Lake City, UT
Apr 7, 2027 – Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
Apr 9, 2027 – Uptown Theater – Minneapolis, MN
Apr 10, 2027 – Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL
Apr 11, 2027 – The Fillmore Detroit – Detroit, MI
Apr 13, 2027 – The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD
Apr 14, 2027 – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY
Apr 16, 2027 – Franklin Music Hall – Philadelphia, PA
Apr 17, 2027 – Citizens House of Blues – Boston, MA
All dates co-headline with Poison The Well with Touché Amoré as support.
Line-up:
George Pettit – Vocals
Dallas Green – Vocals, guitar
Wade MacNeil – Guitar, vocals
Chris Steele – Bass
Jordan Hastings – Drums
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