Canadian post hardcore heroes Alexisonfire have announced their new album Bleed It, out 19th March 2027 via Dine Alone Records, and shared the lead single ‘Push The River’.
The Ontario five piece of George Pettit, Dallas Green, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele and Jordan Hastings are calling it their most adventurous record yet. Alongside their trademark ferocity there are big dynamic shifts, spacious arrangements and a streak of industrial tinged electronica, which runs through ‘Push The River’.
“‘Push The River’ is an anthem for the restless mind,” say the band. “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.”
Bleed It is their second album since reuniting in 2015, following 2022’s JUNO winning Otherness, and it came together in an unusual way. The band arrived at Revolution Recording in Toronto with no songs written. Over 16 months of open-ended sessions, Green brought in “simple instrumental moods” for everyone to play along to. Producer Kevin Ratterman (My Morning Jacket) then helped shape the songs at the famous Sonic Ranch studio in Tornillo, Texas.
“We made the record we didn’t set out to make, which ended up being the best conceivable thing we could have done,” says MacNeil.
It caps a huge 2026 for the band. They celebrated 20 years of Crisis with two sold-out Toronto shows, co-headlined OVO Wembley Arena with Billy Talent, and played Crisis in full as headliners of Outbreak Festival.
Bleed It tracklist: ‘Within Within Within’, ‘Push The River’, ‘What’s Left To Know But Love’, ‘Dogs Of Chernobyl’, ‘Small Eternity’, ‘Forever Free’, ‘Congregation’, ‘Spider’s Dream’, ‘My Blood Is Yours’, ‘Holy Mother’, ‘Tread Lightly, Child’, ‘Milk’, ‘Iron Flowers For Suzie’ and ‘Crushing Black’.
The album will be released on CD, cassette and vinyl, including limited coloured vinyl editions. The band will support it with a US co-headline tour alongside Poison The Well, with Touché Amoré opening.
