ALEXISONFIRE Announces New Album 'Bleed It', Shares Lead Single 'Push The River'

Multi-platinum Canadian rock icons ALEXISONFIRE have announced the March 19, 2027 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 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 skyscraping guitar riffs and galvanizing vocals with an undercurrent of whirring beats.

The band comments: "'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."

The "Push The River" music video, directed by Vanessa Heins, can be seen below.

Pre-orders for physical editions begin Friday, November 13 at 11 a.m. ET via the band's official store and Dine Alone store. Additional retailer-exclusive variants will be released at various times, beginning this Friday with Equal Vision Records at 11 a.m. ET and Banquet Records in the U.K. at 4 p.m. GMT. "Bleed It" will be available on CD, cassette and vinyl, including a variety of limited-edition color vinyl options. Each double LP is housed in a spot-gloss gatefold jacket with printed inner sleeves.

In support of "Bleed It", ALEXISONFIRE will embark on a massive co-headline U.S. tour with Miami metalcore pioneers POISON THE WELL. The dates kick off March 25, 2027 in Dallas at South Side Ballroom and conclude in Boston at House of Blues on April 27. Along the way the tour will make stops at Brooklyn Paramount in New York City on April 14 and in Los Angeles at Hollywood Palladium on April 2. L.A. hardcore mainstays TOUCHÉ AMORÉ will support on all dates. 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.

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 U.K.'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" track listing

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

ALEXISONFIRE rose up out of the Southern Ontario underground in late 2001 to become one of the most successful independent bands to come out of Canada. The post-hardcore luminaries have sold over 1 million records and released five hugely successful studio albums, with four achieving platinum certification: "Alexisonfire" (2002),"Watch Out" (2004),"Crisis" (2006) and "Old Crows / Young Cardinals" (2009). "Crisis" debuted at No. 1 on the Top 200 Soundscan (Canada),and "Old Crows / Young Cardinals" debuted at No. 2, and charted at No. 9 on the U.S. Billboard Independent Album chart. "Watch Out" helped garner a "New Group Of The Year" Juno (2004). The band has performed to hundreds of thousands of fans on iconic stages worldwide, and graced notable music magazine covers internationally. Their long-anticipated fifth studio album, and first full-length album in over 13 years, "Otherness", was released in 2022 to international acclaim, garnering a 2023 Juno award for "Rock Album Of The Year".

Photo credit: Vanessa Heins