Destroy Boys bring FOIE GRAS to Neumos in April

Last seen in Seattle at The Crocodile in October 2024, the band returns on a Tuesday in April with its first album for Epitaph a month old.

Destroy Boys last played Seattle on October 25, 2024, at The Crocodile. When they come back next spring, they'll have a new label, a new album and a tour that carries the record's name.

Destroy Boys play Neumos on Tuesday, April 13, 2027. Doors and show are both listed for 6 p.m., so this is an early night — plan to get off work and go straight there. Tickets are through AXS. The date was announced October 26, and Neumos holds about 650 people.

The album is *FOIE GRAS*. Clash reports it is due March 5 on Epitaph Records — the band's first for the label — with the lead single "Hysteria" already out. The Line of Best Fit covered the announcement too. Clash notes that the band has spent time on the road with Blink-182, Pierce The Veil and Rise Against, and says Violet Mayugba described the new record as the culmination of everything Destroy Boys is and has ever done. That is a big claim from a band that has been at this for a while, and it sets the bar for what the live shows need to deliver.

Five weeks after the record drops, and three nights before the tour's last show.

The tour is billed as "Destroy Boys Presents FOIE GRAS." TicketNews reports a 22-date run through the US and Canada that opens March 13 at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles and closes April 16 at August Hall in San Francisco. That puts Seattle near the end of the run, just three nights before the finale. By then the band will have had about a month of shows to work out how the new songs sit next to the old ones — and Neumos will be getting a band that is fully warmed up rather than one still finding its footing.

Timing matters on the release side, too. *FOIE GRAS* will have been out a little over five weeks by the time the band reaches Seattle. That is long enough for the people who care to have learned the words to "Hysteria" and whatever else follows it, and short enough that the songs still feel new in the room.

The move from The Crocodile in 2024 to Neumos in 2027 keeps the band in the same general weight class — a club-sized room where the crowd can actually get close to the stage. For a band whose reputation comes from loud, fast, punk-rooted songs played in front of people who know them by heart, that kind of room is the right size.

What to expect: a set heavy on *FOIE GRAS*, the new single front and center, and a crowd that has waited two and a half years since the last Seattle stop. With 6 p.m. doors on a Tuesday, the room will likely fill early; don't count on walking in late and finding space near the front.

Tickets through AXS. Listen to "Hysteria" before you go, and get there on time — this is one Tuesday where you'll want to be in the room before the lights go down.

Sources: Destroy Boys set 22-date North American tour for spring 2027 (TicketNews) (ticketnews.com); Destroy Boys Announce New Album 'FOIE GRAS' (Clash) (clashmusic.com); Destroy Boys announce new album FOIE GRAS for Epitaph (The Line of Best Fit) (thelineofbestfit.com); Destroy Boys at Neumos (AXS) (axs.com); Destroy Boys at Neumos (JamBase) (jambase.com)