ALEXISONFIRE / CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF CRISIS / ANNOUNCE HEADLINE PERFORMANCE OF CRISIS FRONT TO BACK
ALEXISONFIRE
CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF PLATINUM-SELLING, CHART-TOPPING ALBUM CRISIS
ANNOUNCE HEADLINE PERFORMANCE OF CRISIS FRONT TO BACK
AUGUST 14, 2026 AT RBC AMPHITHEATRE IN TORONTO
Only Ontario Performance of Crisis
With Special Guests UNDEROATH
Artist Presale: Wednesday, February 4 @ 10am local
General Onsale: Friday, February 6 @ 10am local
TICKETS AVAILABLE HERE
(February 3, 2026) – Multi-platinum, two-time JUNO award winning rock icons Alexisonfire will celebrate the 20th Anniversary of their Platinum-selling, #1 album Crisis with a special performance at RBC Amphitheatre in Toronto on August 14, 2026. The evening will be a unique celebration, beginning with a front-to-back performance of Crisis in its entirety, followed by a career-spanning set honouring the band’s legacy and enduring impact on fans around the world.
Joining AOF as support is Underoath, a three-time Grammy-nominated, U.S. Gold certified five-piece, and one of the most influential post-hardcore bands in modern heavy music. Rounding out the bill is Vancouver’s Computer, an experimental rock band recently signed to Dine Alone Records.
An artist presale begins Wednesday, February 4 at 10:00am ET via Ticketmaster HERE. Fans will receive a password to access the presale via Alexisonfire’s mailing list and social media.
General Public onsale commences Friday, February 6 at 10:00am ET with tickets available via Ticketmaster HERE. Fans are encouraged to stay tuned to Alexisonfire’s social media platforms for announcements of exclusive Crisis 20th Anniversary related merchandise and initiatives.
Alexisonfire has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 per ticket goes to supporting organizations working for equity, access, and dignity for all.
Crisis, released on August 22, 2006, debuted at #1 on the Top 200 SoundScan – one of only four Canadian artists to have a #1 debut that year including Nelly Furtado and Billy Talent – and is one of the band’s most successful albums. The LP hit #5 on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart, #18 on the U.S. Nielsen SoundScan Independent Album chart, and made waves worldwide charting in the UK and Australia’s ARIA charts. The music video for “This Could Be Anywhere in the World” also won Best Cinematography at the 2007 MuchMusic Video Awards.
The album which Billboard lauded as, ‘the band’s best album yet’, took Alexisonfire across the globe, launching them on a massive two‑year world tour where they headlined across Canada (twice), the US, Europe, the UK, and Australia. It literally put the band on the map, and its impact was further solidified when the record made Kerrang’s Top 50 Albums of the 21st Century, a huge honour considering the list featured seminal releases by Green Day, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Metallica, My Chemical Romance, and more.
With songs ranging in subject matter from the Blizzard of ’77 (“Crisis”) to disenfranchised workers (“Boiled Frogs”), the album embodied a much darker theme than previous Alexisonfire recordings, which the popular quintet attributed to returning home from traveling around the world with a fresh perspective. The gravity of Crisis is underscored by its cover art, which features Erno Rossi’s haunting photographs of the Niagara region during the Blizzard of ’77, including an image of a victim with frostbitten hands. The title track itself contains multiple lyrical references to the storm, including the repeated refrain, “one nine seven seven”. The album also marked a much more “rhythmically liberal” process in the studio, with AOF stripping everything down to write and record an album that captured the essence of the band’s live sound, without looping, overdubs, or layered production.
“It feels like you blink and all of a sudden your album is almost old enough to drink in the United States,” jokes AOF frontman George Pettit. “So many incredible memories of making this record. It felt like we were really coming into our own as a band. We discovered another level of potential that we didn’t have at the start. I’m happy we get to relive it this summer with all of you.”
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 #1 on the Top 200 Soundscan (Canada), and Old Crows / Young Cardinals debuted at #2, and charted at #9 on the US 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 5th 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”.
CRISIS TRACKLIST:
Drunks, Lovers, Sinners And Saints
This Could Be Anywhere In The World
Mailbox Arson
Boiled Frogs
We Are The Sound
You Burn First
We Are The End
Crisis
Keep It On Wax
To A Friend
Rough Hands
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About Underoath
Underoath reinvents the balance between chaos and harmony with each successive release. Their compositions, conjured from creative tension, become iconoclastic anthems. Even when the band almost combusts, the crackling energy coalesces into something deeply resonant for millions.
Each time they have a chance to do something safe, Underoath challenges themselves instead, with integrity and attitude. Their pair of gold albums and three Grammy nominations stand in stark defiance of the idea of commercial compromise. The Underoath catalog weaponizes noise, aggression, and ambiance as skillfully as melody.
The combination of heaviness and headiness found on Define the Great Line makes it the only record of its kind to debut at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. The passion and power are as undeniable on tours with Alice In Chains or Bring Me The Horizon as they are in the sweatiest of intimate shows or their genre-redefining runs on Vans Warped Tour. Walking an artistic tightrope between immersive access and isolationist otherness, Underoath owns the space between huge choruses and forward-thinking heaviness, both on record and onstage.
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