Poison the Well, Alexisonfire and Touché Amoré stack The Van Buren in March

Two reunited post-hardcore heavyweights and one of the scene's most dependable bands share a Tuesday night bill in Phoenix on March 30.

Picture the floor at The Van Buren at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday, packed shoulder to shoulder, with a crowd that spans people who bought these bands' first records on CD and people who found them last year. That's the night of Tuesday, March 30, 2027, when Poison the Well, Alexisonfire and Touché Amoré play Phoenix together.

Doors are at 7 p.m., music at 8 p.m., and the room holds 1,800. The bill was announced Nov. 3, and tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The show listing has the rest.

This is a bill that would have seemed impossible not long ago, because two of the three bands spent years away from the studio. Poison the Well ended a long silence this March with *Peace in Place*, out March 20 on SharpTone Records. Blabbermouth called it the band's first new album in 17 years, following 2009's *The Tropic Rot*. It's ten songs in a little over half an hour, produced by Will Putney, and it was previewed by the single "Thoroughbreds," which Consequence streamed with the announcement.

The reviews were strong. Wall of Sound gave it 9.5 out of 10 and heard a band rejuvenated and excited to be creating, and Heavy Blog Is Heavy weighed in too. By March 2027, the album will be a year old and the songs will be fully worked into the set.

Alexisonfire has its own comeback story. The St. Catharines, Ontario, band formed in 2001, and its fifth album, *Otherness*, arrived in June 2022 on Dine Alone, its first full-length in thirteen years, per Wikipedia). Cult MTL gave it 8.5 out of 10, saying it took their screamo and post-hardcore sound to bolder, more mature places, and Qobuz notes it won the Juno for Rock Album of the Year. The lineup still includes George Pettit, Dallas Green and Wade MacNeil, whose voices traded off on the songs that made the band.

Two of these three bands spent years away from the studio. Now they're on the same stage.

Then there's Touché Amoré, the band on this bill most likely to have played a room near you recently. They've been a constant on the road, including a 2022 North American tour behind *Lament*, and they're the kind of band that makes an opening slot feel like a co-headline.

The Van Buren is a good match for this. At 1,800 capacity, it's large enough to hold the crowd three bands like this will draw, but still close enough that the stage-divers will have a short trip.

It's a Tuesday, and you'll be tired Wednesday. Nobody who goes will regret it. Tickets are on sale now, so make the plan before the spring calendar fills up.

Sources: JamBase: Poison the Well at The Van Buren, Mar 30, 2027 (jambase.com); Ticketmaster: Poison the Well & Alexisonfire, Phoenix (ticketmaster.evyy.net); Blabbermouth: POISON THE WELL Announces First New Album In 17 Years, 'Peace In Place' (blabbermouth.net); Wikipedia: Peace in Place (en.wikipedia.org); Consequence: Poison the Well announce first album in 17 years, unleash single Thoroughbreds (concerts.consequence.net); Wall of Sound: Poison The Well – Peace In Place (Album Review) (wallofsoundau.com); Heavy Blog Is Heavy: Poison the Well – Peace in Place (heavyblogisheavy.com); Wikipedia: Otherness (Alexisonfire album) (en.wikipedia.org); Wikipedia: Alexisonfire (en.wikipedia.org); Cult MTL: Alexisonfire Otherness review (cultmtl.com); Qobuz: Alexisonfire (qobuz.com); Vanyaland: Touché Amoré unveil 2022 Lament tour (vanyaland.com)