Destroy Boys return to Salt Lake City with a new album in hand

The band's spring tour for FOIE GRAS, their first record on Epitaph, stops at Metro Music Hall on Saturday, April 10.

The last time Destroy Boys played Salt Lake City was Oct. 29, 2024, at The Complex, on the heels of an album that had come out that August. When they come back in April they'll have another new record, a new label and a 600-capacity room.

Destroy Boys play Metro Music Hall on Saturday, April 10, 2027, at 7 p.m. Tickets are through Metro Music Hall. The show was announced Oct. 28.

Plenty has changed in two and a half years. The new album is *FOIE GRAS*, out March 5, 2027, on Epitaph Records, the band's first release for the label, as The Line of Best Fit and Clash both report. Clash quotes Violet Mayugba calling it the culmination of everything Destroy Boys is and has ever done. That's a big claim, and the only way to test it is to hear the songs live.

The record before it was *Funeral Soundtrack #4*, released in August 2024 on Hopeless Records, according to Wikipedia and Dork's announcement coverage. That's the album they were touring the last time they came through, so the jump from Hopeless to Epitaph sits right between the two Salt Lake visits.

The Metro Music Hall date is part of a 22-city North American headline tour for *FOIE GRAS*. TicketNews reports it opens March 13 at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and closes April 16 at August Hall in San Francisco. Salt Lake falls in the last week of that run. By then the band will have about a month of playing the new songs every night, and the album will have been out long enough for the crowd to know the words.

A new label, a new album, and a crowd that will have had five weeks to learn it.

Metro Music Hall holds 600, which keeps the show close and loud. It's the kind of size where you can get near the front without much effort if you get there early, and where a crowd that knows the record can carry a chorus.

Practical notes: it's a Saturday with a 7 p.m. start, so this is an early night with time for dinner nearby. Tickets go through the venue's own site. Indie and punk shows in a room this size have a habit of selling out once the record drops, so buying before March is the safer move.

Two and a half years isn't a long gap, but it covers a whole album cycle and a label change. April 10 is the chance to see what *FOIE GRAS* sounds like in a room this close.

Sources: Destroy Boys announce new album FOIE GRAS for Epitaph (The Line of Best Fit) (thelineofbestfit.com); Destroy Boys Announce New Album 'FOIE GRAS' (Clash) (clashmusic.com); Destroy Boys (Wikipedia) (en.wikipedia.org); Destroy Boys have announced their new album, 'Funeral Soundtrack #4' (Dork) (readdork.com); Destroy Boys set 22-date North American tour for spring 2027 (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Metro Music Hall (metromusichall.com)