Alexisonfire - Crisis

Crisis is the third studio album by Canadian hard rock band Alexisonfire, originally released in August 2006 via Distort Entertainment.

Alexisonfire is a five-piece Canadian post-hardcore band that formed in St. Catharines, Ontario in 2001. The band consists of George Pettit (unclean vocals), Dallas Green (clean vocals, guitar, piano), Wade MacNeil (guitar, backing vocals), Chris Steele (bass guitar), and Jordan Hastings (drums, percussion).

This is the first album to feature Jordan Hastings on drums, replacing founding member Jesse Ingelevic. The song "Keep It On Wax" is about his departure from the band. Crisis also features Planes Mistaken For Stars frontman Gared O'Donnell singing on the track "You Burn First".

The single "Boiled Frogs" refers to George Pettit's dad, whose boss tried to cheat him out of a pension, and refers to the popular theory that frogs, if placed in a pot of water and have the temperature slowly raised, will not notice that they are being cooked.

The album cover art for Crisis features the aftermath of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 that hit the Niagara Region and Western New York. The main cover features the famous picture of a frostbitten man.

The album received widespread critical acclaim upon release and debuted at #1 on the Canadian Albums chart. Crisis was voted at #50 in the 50 Greatest Albums of the 21st Century in UK rock magazine Kerrang!.

Check out the tracks:  “This Could Be Anywhere In The World”; “Boiled Frogs”; and “Drunks, Lovers, Sinners And Saints”.

This limited edition individually numbered LP record is a 2017 Record Store Day reissue on white vinyl with a printed insert and digital download code, pressed in Canada, limited to 1,977 copies, and only released in Australia and Canada via Dine Alone Records.