Dead Poet Society brings 'Monarch' to Showbox at the Market on Dec. 16

Two and a half years after a night at El Corazon, the Boston-born rock band returns to Seattle with a new album and a stacked bill of Honey Revenge, Hunny and Broadside.

The last time Dead Poet Society played Seattle, it was April 2024 at El Corazon, a room built for exactly this kind of loud, sweaty rock show. The band's next visit moves a few blocks and a few sizes up, to the 1,150-capacity ballroom across from Pike Place Market.

Dead Poet Society plays Showbox at the Market on Wednesday, Dec. 16. The show starts at 6:30 p.m., and it is a full night: Honey Revenge, Hunny and Broadside are all on the bill. The date was announced Oct. 27, and tickets are through Showbox Presents. With four bands and an early start, plan on being in the room by the first set.

A lot has happened since that El Corazon night. The band's 2024 record *FISSION* was its newest album then. This fall it released its third album, *Monarch*, on Oct. 2 via Spinefarm Records, announced alongside the single "Cold," as Lollipop Magazine reported. Seattle will be hearing those songs live about ten weeks after they came out, which is the sweet spot: long enough for the crowd to know the words, early enough that the band is still excited to play them.

The band is also looking well past December. It has announced a 2027 UK and European headline tour that starts in Lisbon on Jan. 21 and ends in Helsinki on March 5, and released a heavier, angrier new single, "Roach," alongside the announcement, according to Kerrang! and Melodic Magazine. That makes the Seattle show one of the last chances to catch the band stateside before it spends the winter overseas.

The bill is not filler, either. Dead Poet Society and Honey Revenge have been touring together on a co-headline run this fall, announced over the summer with Broadside and Hunny as support. Honey Revenge's pop-punk punch and Broadside's melodic edge set up a night that should move from bouncy to heavy as it goes, with Dead Poet Society's big, riff-driven rock closing it out.

Then there is the room. Showbox at the Market sits at 1426 First Ave., steps from Pike Place, as Seattle Met notes. It is one of the city's classic mid-size stages, a ballroom with enough space for a real crowd and a balcony view that makes a loud band look even bigger. For a group that last played a club, it is a clear step up.

A Wednesday in mid-December is not the easiest night to sell, which is part of why this one feels like a fan's show. The people who come out will be the ones who have had *Monarch* on repeat since October.

So check the bus schedule, wear something you do not mind sweating through, and get downtown early. This band waited two and a half years to come back. Do not make it play to a half-full room.

Sources: Showbox Presents (showboxpresents.com); Dead Poet Society to release Monarch + announce 2026 US tour (Lollipop Magazine) (lollipopmagazine.com); Dead Poet Society drop seething new single Roach and announce UK and European tour (Kerrang!) (kerrang.com); Dead Poet Society release new single Roach and announce UK/EU tour dates (Melodic Magazine) (melodicmag.com); Dead Poet Society and Honey Revenge announce fall tour (antiMusic) (musicpressbox.antimusic.com); Showbox at the Market (Seattle Met) (seattlemet.com); Dead Poet Society at El Corazon, Apr 16 2024 (JamBase) (jambase.com)