Multi-platinum, two-time JUNO Award-winning Canadian post-hardcore icons Alexisonfire have announced the March 19th release of their new 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 6th studio album and second full-length since reuniting in 2015, is their most adventurous record yet. Across its 14 tracks, there’s no shortage of the band’s trademark ferocity, alongside 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 skyscraping guitar riffs and galvanizing 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.”
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 March 25th, 2027 in Dallas at South Side Ballroom and conclude in Boston at House of Blues on April 27th. Along the way the tour will make stops at Brooklyn Paramount in New York City on April 14th and in Los Angeles at Hollywood Palladium on April 2nd. 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. www.plus1.org
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 Fest 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.”
‘Bleed It’ tracklist:
01. Within Within Within
02. Push the River
03. What’s Left to Know But Love
04. Dogs of Chernobyl
05. Small Eternity
06. Forever Free
07. Congregation
08. Spider’s Dream
09. My Blood is Yours
10. Holy Mother
11. Tread Lightly, Child
12. Milk
13. Iron Flowers for Suzie
14. Crushing Black
Upcoming tour dates:
November 14th – 15th – Vans Warped Tour Orlando 2026 – Orlando, FL
November 17th – Teatro Vorterix – Buenos Aires, Argentina
November 20th – Vibra São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil
November 22nd – Tork n’ Roll – Curitiba, Brazil
November 25th – Teatro Coliseo – Santiago, Chile
November 26th – Teatro Coliseo – Santiago, Chile
December 4th – Good Things Festival – Melbourne, Australia
December 5th – Good Things Festival – Sydney Olympic Park, Australia
December 6th – Good Things Festival – Brisbane, Australia
March 25th – South Side Ballroom – Dallas, TX
March 26th – White Oak Music Hall – Houston, TX
March 27th – Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater – Austin, TX
March 30th – The Van Buren – Phoenix, AZ
March 31st – Brooklyn Bowl – Las Vegas, NV
April 2nd – Hollywood Palladium – Los Angeles, CA
April 3rd – Channel 24 – Sacramento, CA
April 4th – Fox Theater – Oakland, CA
April 6th – The Union Event Center – Salt Lake City, UT
April 7th – Fillmore Auditorium – Denver, CO
April 9th – Uptown Theater – Minneapolis, MN
April 10th – Aragon Ballroom – Chicago, IL
April 11th – The Fillmore Detroit – Detroit, MI
April 13th – The Fillmore Silver Spring – Silver Spring, MD
April 14th – Brooklyn Paramount – Brooklyn, NY
April 16th – Franklin Music Hall – Philadelphia, PA
April 17th – Citizens House of Blues – Boston, MA