Four Year Strong play 'Rise or Die Trying' front to back at the Majestic

The band's 25th-anniversary tour hits Detroit's Majestic Theatre on Wednesday, March 24, 2027, with Drug Church and Heart Attack Man — and a full-album set.

Four Year Strong were last in Detroit on Nov. 1, 2024, at Saint Andrews Hall. When they come back next March, they're moving to a bigger room and bringing a setlist built for anyone who's had one particular record on repeat for two decades.

Four Year Strong play the Majestic Theatre on Wednesday, March 24, 2027, at 6 p.m., with Drug Church and Heart Attack Man in support. Tickets are on sale through AXS. The date was announced Oct. 20 as part of the Rise or Die Trying 25 Year Anniversary Tour.

The name is doing double duty. The run marks 25 years of Four Year Strong as a band and 20 years of Rise or Die Trying, the band's second album. The plan, per the announcement, is to play that record in full every night, then keep going with songs from across the band's 25 years — including, in their words, "lots of deep cuts and rare setlist appearances."

The full album, plus "lots of deep cuts and rare setlist appearances."

That's a different kind of night than a standard headline set. A full-album show rewards people who know the sequencing by heart, and the deep-cut promise means even fans who saw the band at Saint Andrews two years ago are likely to hear things they didn't then.

The tour is a big one: a 31-date North American run that, per Melodic Magazine, opens March 20 in Buffalo and wraps with a hometown-region finale at House of Blues in Boston on April 30. Detroit lands in the first week, four nights in. Sunbloc is also on the tour but not every date; the Majestic bill is Drug Church and Heart Attack Man.

This isn't the band's first trip around Rise or Die Trying, either. In 2017 they took the record out for a 10th-anniversary tour — so the 20th is a second lap for an album that clearly still means something to the people who show up. The 25-year milestone had its own celebration this year as well, when the band anchored the Seven Hills Music Festival around it.

The support bill is stacked for a Wednesday. Drug Church and Heart Attack Man are both headliners in their own right, and with a 6 p.m. start, getting there late means missing a good chunk of the night. Plan to be inside early.

The move from Saint Andrews to the roughly 1,100-capacity Majestic says something too: an anniversary run tends to pull back fans who've drifted away, and the bigger room leaves space for them. Twenty years on, a lot of people who first heard this record in a basement or a car stereo will be standing in the same room on a school night, singing every word in order.

Sources: FOUR YEAR STRONG Announces 25th-Anniversary Tour, Celebrates 20 Years Of 'Rise Or Die Trying' (Blabbermouth) (blabbermouth.net); Four Year Strong sets 2027 anniversary tour (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Four Year Strong announce 25th anniversary tour with Drug Church, Heart Attack Man and Sunbloc (Melodic Magazine) (melodicmag.com); Four Year Strong Rise or Die Trying 25 Year Anniversary Tour (Live Nation) (livenation.com); Four Year Strong Announce 'Rise or Die Trying' 10th Anniversary Tour (New England Sounds) (newenglandsounds.com); Four Year Strong to celebrate 25 years as a band at Seven Hills Music Festival (Melodic Magazine) (melodicmag.com); Four Year Strong at Majestic Theatre (JamBase) (jambase.com)