Four Year Strong will play 'Rise or Die Trying' in full at the Nile

The New England pop-punk lifers mark 25 years as a band and 20 years of their breakout album with a Sunday, April 11 stop in Mesa.

Some records you grow out of. Others you just grow up with. For a lot of fans, Four Year Strong's *Rise or Die Trying* is the second kind — and on Sunday, April 11, 2027, the band will play it start to finish at The Nile Theater in Mesa.

The tour, announced Oct. 20, celebrates two milestones at once: Four Year Strong's 25th anniversary as a band and 20 years since *Rise or Die Trying*, their 2007 sophomore album. The band says it will play the album in full along with songs from across its quarter century, per Blabbermouth. Heart Attack Man and Sunbloc are on the Mesa bill.

Tickets are sold through See Tickets, the Nile's ticketer. Presales ran through the band's website, and general sales opened Friday, Oct. 23, at 10 a.m. local time — so as of this week, they're on sale.

The routing tells you something about the night. Mesa caps a four-show West Coast push: House of Blues San Diego on April 7, the Observatory in Santa Ana on April 9, the Echoplex in Los Angeles on April 10, then the Nile on the 11th. The full run opens in Buffalo in late March and finishes with a homecoming in Boston on April 30. By the time they reach Arizona, they'll be roughly three weeks into playing *Rise or Die Trying* every night.

Some records you grow out of. Others you just grow up with.

The Nile is a fitting room for a record like this. The old theater on Main Street in downtown Mesa holds about 850, and the band has worked it before: Four Year Strong headlined there in November 2024. A Sunday show at a venue this size keeps the night close and loud, the way an album built on singalong choruses and metalcore flourishes should be heard.

Heart Attack Man bring their own following to the bill, and Sunbloc rounds it out.

There's also something to be said for an anniversary show done properly. Plenty of bands dust off an old album for a single night; this is a full tour, built around the record, with the rest of the catalog filling in around it. For fans who came up on *Rise or Die Trying*, it's a chance to hear the whole thing in order — and for anyone newer to the band, it's the clearest possible introduction to why the album stuck.

If you're going, buy now and plan for a long night: three bands is a lot of sets, and the Nile on a Sunday in April is not where you want to be stuck in a will-call line. Bring earplugs, bring a friend who knew all the words in 2007, and let the room do the rest.

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