JFH News: Alex Henry Foster Shares Powerful Live Performance of "City on Fire"

ALEX HENRY FOSTER SHARES POWERFUL LIVE PERFORMANCE OF CITY ON FIRE FROM ITALY’S 2DAYS PROG + 1 FESTIVAL

NEWS SOURCE: Hopeful Tragedy Records
December 2, 2025

MONTREAL, DECEMBER 2025 – Following the final stretch of The High Blooming Ritual tour — which featured sold-out shows and received praise from numerous European media outlets — Alex Henry Foster released last week a live music video for City on Fire, recorded at Italy’s 2Days Prog + 1 Festival. The release has already received notable support from outlets such as Prog Magazine, V13, Visions Magazin, and several others. The song will be available on digital streaming platforms on December 5, with limited vinyl copies arriving on December 12.

Foster’s last musical offering before the end of the year is a powerful and immersive piece that blends progressive and hard-rock urgency with gothic-folk moments and vast post-rock soundscapes. Disturbing, saturated guitar textures collide with soft, intimate vocal lines, creating a tension that feels both cathartic and deeply human.

He mentioned: “City on Fire is a song that has been vibrating within me for quite some time already. It came and went in my life when I least expected it, but I guess it became much more significant for me as I’ve been horrified by the new measure of atrocities human nature is inflicting on the world. I understood that beyond the fire raging within us and the subsequent cynicism we now have to deal with lies the notion of trying to find some inner peace through it all, to transcend the fear we have to lose ourselves in our own flaming disillusions.”

Alex explained why he keeps speaking about the power of community at every stop on tour: "The power of community that I witness from one concert to another, its supportive nature, its ability to break anyone’s loneliness, its power to heal… And I concluded that, while I have the privilege to share about it everywhere I stop"

While on Substack, he has been sharing how meaningful it is for him to revisit some of the songs he used to play with Your Favorite Enemies: "I had to make peace with my past and reclaim the most significant elements that contributed to making my journey what it is today, which for me is mainly my music, my words, my projects… To revisit my tenure with Your Favorite Enemies was essential in that sense, especially as it represents 12 years of my life, and 2026 will mark the 20th anniversary of the band’s inception… It’s crazy just to think about it."

In just one year, Foster has multiplied achievements: sold-out venues, strong presence in ADISQ rankings, and the release of a new live album, A Nightfall Ritual, which entered the Billboard charts upon its release in April 2025 before being named Post-Rock Album of the Year at GAMIQ.

City on Fire will be available on streaming services on December 5, and exclusive vinyl copies will be released on December 12.

ALEX HENRY FOSTER BIO

Alex Henry Foster (AHF) is a Canadian musician, author, producer, and composer, formerly the frontman for Juno Awards nominee post-rock/noise band Your Favorite Enemies (YFE).

Hailed as an “unforeseen DIY artist” by Rolling Stone Magazine, Alex Henry Foster released his first solo album, “Windows in the Sky”, in Canada in 2018 and globally in 2020. Mostly written during an exile from himself in Tangier following his father’s passing, “Windows in the Sky” is a “dreamy blast of post-rock” (NME) that “brings to my mind artists like Hammock and Asche & Spencer, with heaping helpings of Mogwai and Explosions in the Sky” (BrooklynVegan).

Fierce human rights advocate, Foster has been a very active public speaker over the last decade, commenting on racism, the proliferation of street gangs – in the midst of which he spent his teenage years — the resurgence of populism and extremism. He teamed up with Amnesty International and War Child for several campaigns initiating sensibilization awareness towards children soldiers and also created The Hope Project following the Tohoku Tsunami of 2011.

Foster spent 2024 touring Europe and America around the release of two albums and an EP. He just came back from Tangier, Morocco, where he spent 4 months working on an upcoming release.

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