Bring Me The Horizon Bring the “Third Ascension Program” to Canada and the USA in 2026

Bring Me The Horizon are heading back to North America this fall with POST HUMAN: NeX GEn – The Third Ascension Program, a new run of shows that brings the band’s current era to Canada and the United States from September 20 through October 11, 2026. The tour begins in Vancouver and moves across Canada before reaching Grand Rapids, Michigan, with the final North American appearance taking place at Furnace Fest in Birmingham, Alabama.

The main run features Motionless In White and The Plot In You, giving fans a lineup that reflects the heavier and more alternative sides of the modern rock scene. At the same time, the tour arrives during an important year for BMTH, as the band are also celebrating two decades of their debut album Count Your Blessings.

Bring Me The Horizon 2026 Canada and USA Tour Dates

The announced POST HUMAN: NeX GEn – The Third Ascension Program dates are:

Date	City	Venue
September 20	Vancouver, BC	Rogers Arena
September 23	Edmonton, AB	Rogers Place
September 24	Calgary, AB	Scotiabank Saddledome
September 26	Winnipeg, MB	Canada Life Centre
September 30	Quebec City, QC	Videotron Centre
October 2	Ottawa, ON	Canadian Tire Centre
October 3	Hamilton, ON	TD Coliseum
October 6	London, ON	Canada Life Place
October 8	Grand Rapids, MI	Van Andel Arena
October 11	Birmingham, AL	Sloss Furnaces — Furnace Fest

The first nine dates form the main headline run, while the Birmingham appearance is part of Furnace Fest and will feature a special Count Your Blessings anniversary performance. The complete schedule is also listed on the band’s official live page.

A Long-Awaited Return to Western Canada

The Canadian leg gives this tour a particular sense of occasion. Bring Me The Horizon are returning to several Western Canadian markets after a lengthy absence, with the tour announcement noting that the band have not performed in select cities in the region for nearly 15 years.

The run starts in Vancouver on September 20 before moving through Edmonton, Calgary and Winnipeg. From there, the band continue east to Quebec City, Ottawa, Hamilton and London, creating a concentrated stretch of Canadian dates before the tour reaches Grand Rapids.

For a band that has changed dramatically since its early years, returning to these markets in the middle of the POST HUMAN era gives the shows an interesting sense of continuity. The audience may be hearing a very different version of BMTH today, but many of the people who discovered the band years ago will have followed that evolution along the way.

Motionless In White and The Plot In You Join the Tour

The addition of Motionless In White and The Plot In You makes the lineup particularly well matched to BMTH’s current sound.

Motionless In White have built a distinctive identity around heavy guitars, industrial influences and theatrical presentation, while The Plot In You have developed a more melodic approach that sits comfortably between metalcore, alternative metal and post-hardcore. Their presence also reflects how much the audience for heavy music has expanded beyond strict genre boundaries.

That shift has been central to Bring Me The Horizon’s own career. The band began with a much more extreme sound, but their later records have pulled together metal, electronic music, alternative rock and pop without completely losing the aggression that defined their early work.

The POST HUMAN Era Takes the Spotlight

At the heart of the 2026 tour is POST HUMAN: NeX GEn, the second installment in Bring Me The Horizon’s POST HUMAN project. Released in 2024, the album continued the band’s move toward a more electronic and cinematic sound while retaining plenty of heavy guitar work and aggressive vocals. The band’s official site continues to position NeX GEn as a central part of their current creative era.

The Third Ascension Program takes that world into the live environment, with the tour announcement describing a production built around immersive visuals, cyberpunk aesthetics and a broader multi-sensory experience.

That approach fits BMTH particularly well. Their music has become increasingly visual over the past several years, and the POST HUMAN concept gives the band room to turn a concert into something that feels connected to the larger world surrounding the records.

For fans following the 2026 tour, the two related Bring Me The Horizon 2026 tour designs and Canada and USA tour artwork also provide another way to keep the dates and this particular chapter of the band’s history in view.

20 Years of Count Your Blessings

While the Third Ascension Program looks firmly toward the future, 2026 also takes Bring Me The Horizon back to the beginning.

The band are marking the 20th anniversary of Count Your Blessings with Count Your Blessings | Repented, a complete re-recording of their 2006 debut. Rather than simply remastering the original album, BMTH rebuilt the songs with frontman Oli Sykes, guitarist Lee Malia and producer and mixer Buster Odeholm. The new edition also includes “Dehumanized,” a new song written specifically for the anniversary project.

The significance of that album is difficult to separate from the band’s early identity. Count Your Blessings came from a much more extreme period in BMTH’s history and became an important release in the development of modern deathcore. Two decades later, the band are approaching the same material with considerably more experience behind them.

That makes the re-recording more interesting than a simple anniversary exercise. It shows a band willing to revisit an old record without pretending that the last twenty years never happened.

Furnace Fest Brings the Story Back to the Beginning

The connection between the old and new versions of Bring Me The Horizon becomes clearest on October 11 in Birmingham.

At Furnace Fest, the band will perform Count Your Blessings in full, bringing the anniversary project into a live setting after spending most of the North American run focused on POST HUMAN: NeX GEn.

It creates a fitting ending for the tour. The opening shows belong to the band’s current world, while the final performance reaches back to the record that introduced BMTH to a much more extreme corner of the heavy-music scene.

In that sense, the 2026 North American run tells a fairly simple story without needing to force the nostalgia. Bring Me The Horizon have spent two decades changing their sound, their audience and the scale of their live shows, but the music from their earliest years is still part of the foundation underneath everything they do today.

Bring Me The Horizon in 2026: Past and Future at the Same Time

The most interesting thing about the Bring Me The Horizon Canada and USA Tour 2026 is the contrast running through the entire schedule.

For most of September and October, the band will be presenting the futuristic POST HUMAN: NeX GEn era alongside Motionless In White and The Plot In You. Then, in Birmingham, the focus shifts completely toward Count Your Blessings and the sound of a band that was still establishing its identity twenty years ago.

Those two sides of BMTH might seem worlds apart, but they actually explain the band’s career rather well. They have never been particularly interested in standing still, and the distance between Count Your Blessings and NeX GEn is largely the result of that constant willingness to experiment.

From Vancouver on September 20 to Birmingham on October 11, the 2026 North American run brings those different eras together in one touring cycle. It is a snapshot of where Bring Me The Horizon are now: still heavy, still restless and still willing to challenge what their own name is supposed to sound like.

For readers who want to keep following the band’s music, releases and upcoming activity, the official Bring Me The Horizon website remains the best primary source for current information.

If you’re following the band’s music and want to explore more designs connected to their current era, you can also browse the Bring Me The Horizon collection for related artwork and designs.