Poison the Well and Alexisonfire bring their comeback records to the Fox in April

With Touché Amoré opening, the Sunday, April 4 bill at Oakland's Fox Theater is a post-hardcore reunion two decades in the making.

There will be a lot of faded band shirts on Telegraph Avenue on Sunday, April 4, 2027. That's the night Poison the Well headlines Oakland's Fox Theater, with Alexisonfire and Touché Amoré on the bill, and the show starts at 7 p.m.

The tour was announced Nov. 3. The Fox holds 2,800, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. Full details are on the show listing.

What makes this bill worth a Sunday night is that both of the top two bands came back with records that people actually liked. That isn't a given with reunions.

Poison the Well went 17 years between albums, by Blabbermouth's count, before *Peace in Place* arrived on March 20 this year on SharpTone Records. Its predecessor was 2009's *The Tropic Rot*. The new one is ten songs in just over half an hour, with Will Putney producing, and it opened with the lead single "Thoroughbreds," which Metal Injection premiered with the announcement. Wall of Sound scored it 9.5 out of 10 and heard a band rejuvenated and excited to be creating. The lineup on the record, per Wikipedia, is Jeffrey Moreira on vocals, Ryan Primack and Vadim Taver on guitars, Christopher Hornbrook on drums and Noah Harmon on bass.

Alexisonfire took thirteen years between full-lengths before *Otherness* came out on Dine Alone in June 2022. The St. Catharines, Ontario, band formed in 2001, and its lineup of George Pettit, Dallas Green, Wade MacNeil, Chris Steele and Jordan Hastings made the record themselves at Jukasa Recording Studios in Ontario, according to Wikipedia). It went on to win the Juno for Rock Album of the Year, per Qobuz, and Canadian Beats and Cult MTL both reviewed it warmly.

Both of the top two bands came back with records that people actually liked. That isn't a given with reunions.

Then there's Touché Amoré, whose presence turns this from a nostalgia show into something broader. They've been one of the most consistent touring bands in the genre, including a 2022 North American tour behind *Lament*. Getting there in time for their set is not optional.

The Fox is the biggest room on this tour's California swing that we've seen so far, and it's a grand setting for a loud, sweaty show. At 2,800 capacity, there's room for the people who want the pit and for the people who'd rather watch from a distance and sing along.

A 7 p.m. start on a Sunday means you're home at a decent hour, more or less. Grab tickets now and dig out that old shirt. You'll see a lot of them.

Sources: JamBase: Poison the Well at Fox Theater, Apr 4, 2027 (jambase.com); Ticketmaster: Poison the Well & Alexisonfire, Oakland (ticketmaster.evyy.net); Blabbermouth: POISON THE WELL Announces First New Album In 17 Years, 'Peace In Place' (blabbermouth.net); Metal Injection: Poison the Well announces first record since 2009, streams Thoroughbreds (metalinjection.net); Wall of Sound: Poison The Well – Peace In Place (Album Review) (wallofsoundau.com); Wikipedia: Peace in Place (en.wikipedia.org); Wikipedia: Otherness (Alexisonfire album) (en.wikipedia.org); Wikipedia: Alexisonfire (en.wikipedia.org); Qobuz: Alexisonfire (qobuz.com); Canadian Beats: Alexisonfire Otherness album review (canadianbeats.ca); Cult MTL: Alexisonfire Otherness review (cultmtl.com); Vanyaland: Touché Amoré unveil 2022 Lament tour (vanyaland.com)