Born of Osiris Look Ahead To A Heavier New Era As They Gear Up for Their 2026 Australian Tour
Born of Osiris return to Australia in the middle of a creative turning point, rebuilding their line-up, rediscovering their heaviest instincts, and reconnecting with the fans who’ve stayed with them through the years. With a new album behind them, a renewed sense of purpose, and a next chapter already taking shape, the band arrives sharper, hungrier, and more unified than they’ve felt in years, ready to celebrate the past, showcase the present, and hint at the heavier future they’re already carving out. Ronnie Canizaro talks to Hi Fi Way about the tour.
It’s hard to believe it’s been six years since the last tour.
Six years, a lot has changed, a lot has happened since then, so yeah, we’re just excited to be back, finally. We got the offer, and we were just like, absolutely, let’s do this.
Touring with Signs of the Swarm makes for an awesome double bill?
Yeah, we did a tour a few years ago with them, and it was awesome. They’ve just kept going, and they’re just killing it right now, so to have them back with us is great.
In touring in general, how’s that gone so far this year, particularly with having a new album out as well?
We just finished our headliner, and it was great. We pulled a lot of the songs off of it. I can’t complain. Shows were great. It’s like a transition period right now, because we had two members leave the band, and now we have two people playing. We have a new guitarist named Travis Montgomery, and we have Dan Marinaro, and he plays bass and does backup vocals. They’re just incredible people, and it’s like a new kind of rebuilding phase for us right now, and I feel like it’s going smooth, everyone’s happy. I feel like we’re playing the best we’ve played in a long time, so we’re excited to play some old stuff, some new stuff. Everything.
It must be refreshing to add to that dynamic of the band and have that natural shift and change within the band itself?
Yeah, I mean, at first I thought, what was going on, like, this could be it. But it was either cancel the European tour we were on or just keep going, and we just decided, you know what? We can do this, let’s continue, we can make this happen. I feel like if we would have cancelled the tour we were on at the time, we probably would have been done, or we would not have been touring, and who knows what would have happened next. But I feel like the fact that we all were strong‑minded, and we wanted to push through this, whatever was going on, we were like, let’s go, let’s complete the tour. We don’t want to cancel the tour. We brought all these bands from the U.S. that flew over. If we cancel the tour, they’re all screwed. We got to do this for everyone, it’s not just about us. Then we kept going, and we met awesome people down the road, and now we’re back to a full band.
When everything comes together like that, does it make the result — like that tour — all the more satisfying?
We were down low, feeling lost and struggling, but it was worth it to see what we just did and complete a tour, full band, playing the best we’ve ever played. It feels good, because we could have given up. But we didn’t, and I don’t think any of us want to give up music, because this is our dream since we were kids. I’ve known Cameron, our drummer, since fourth grade. We’ve been together a long time. I’m thirty six now, and he’s thirty seven. We’ve been best friends for a long time, this is our passion, and this is what we do for a living, so we just got to keep going.
By the time you get to Australia, will there be a stronger leaning on the new album, or is it more about making up for lost time and covering everything from the back catalogue?
So we’re gonna be playing a lot of songs off the album The Discovery and we’re going to mix some old stuff off The New Reign, our first album, and definitely play our biggest songs off the newest album as well. But it’s going to be a majority of older stuff that fans have been waiting for a long time to hear, because we put that one on hold for a while. I had to practice again, I have to remember these lyrics from 2011, but I’m excited, and I’m excited to practice with the boys and get it going.
Are you really stoked with the feedback and commentary around the new album Through Shadows?
We do a meet and greet after we play a show on our headliners in the U.S. We just do a free one, come say hi to us, we’ll take a photo or sign whatever you want, and people just say, hey, this album means a lot to me, it’s helped me through depression and whatnot, it helped me through whatever they’re going through at the time. I’m just grateful that people are listening and liking it. We were going through a hard time writing that album, we wrote a lot of those songs during COVID, and we weren’t feeling the strongest as a group at the time. Like, are we going to be a band? COVID… it was crazy times, like 2020. So… yeah, we like playing the songs live, and I think we’ve had a good reception. So, I’m stoked.
Did much of the process change in terms of making that album, or do you get back to a more traditional approach when you start thinking about the next album?
Yeah, we had to do some rewrites, because we weren’t stoked on… initially, when we finished the album, we were like, okay, we can go back, let’s record some other vocals, or take some vocals out. I thought I could nail a part better here or there. So we did some rewrites for that one, and it turned out a lot better. That’s what we’re trying to do for our next album. We’re doing a lot of writing riffs together, bouncing off ideas, and then I’m recording vocals with Nick a lot. For our next album, we were already thinking about going back to our roots, get heavier, keep it modern sounding, but let’s just be a heavy band and have fun, because our funnest songs live to play are the heavy ones, and our biggest.
Through Shadows, you were experimenting with singing a lot, is that something you want to keep exploring?
I was experimenting with singing a lot, and I’m learning while I’m performing and figuring out my voice. It was cool to be able to do some cleans on the record, but I want to focus back on the heavy stuff moving forward.
When you start thinking about another album, and with new players in mind, what’s the dynamic they bring to the Born of Osiris sound that you might not have had previously?
Nick’s been a main writer for years in our band, and Cameron, our drummer, he wrote the whole first album The New Reign himself, and the second album pretty much himself. They bring incredible music to me, and then I’m like, okay, what am I going to do over this? How are we going to make this a song? And we work on the vocals together, and we come together and we’re like, yep, we like it.
Do you start having a timeline for where you might go with the next album, in terms of sound and timing, or is it still up in the air?
Well, Nick sent me a pre‑pro idea, and it’s just super heavy, just guitar riffing. I think we’re trying to focus on the riffs and then build upon that, and not do so many crazy programming, key layers, because we’re a full‑string band now. We’ll put the atmospheric sounds and electronic noises in there, because we love electronic music, but I think we’re trying to tame that part of our sound a little bit and just go straight heavy with our instruments.
Do you still believe in the concept of an album, or do you think future releases will be more drip‑fed singles?
I was talking to one of our label reps, and he was just like, just write good songs. Like, we’ll figure it out — just keep writing music and let’s not worry about an album or anything. But I think… I like the physical aspect of an album, me personally. I like the artwork, I like looking at it. The future seems to be like you don’t need to make albums anymore, just songs and stuff. I don’t know, I’m indecisive right now, because I don’t know which way to go, but I just want to keep releasing music in any form.
Interview By Rob Lyon
Catch Born Of Osiris with Signs Of The Swarm on the following dates. Tickets From: https://thephoenix.au/born-of-osiris-2026/
