Dead Poet Society

The Band

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Dead Poet Society is dark, intense alternative rock, formed in 2013 by four students at Berklee College of Music in Boston — Jack Underkofler (vocals/guitar), Jack Collins (guitar), Will Goodroad (drums), and Dylan Brenner (bass, replacing Nick Taylor). Now based in Los Angeles, they draw from post-grunge, progressive rock, and indie to create something both visceral and hook-laden.

The name nods to the iconic film Dead Poets Society — and the philosophy fits: seize the moment, refuse to conform, express what burns inside. On stage, it’s a cathartic experience: relentless energy, magnetic frontman, pure intensity.

Key influences: Royal Blood, Queens of the Stone Age, Highly Suspect, Nothing But Thieves, Led Zeppelin.

Discography

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Notable singles: .CoDA. (2020), .intoodeep. (2020), Running In Circles (2023), HURT feat. The Warning (2024), My Condition (2024), Sinner Systems (May 2026), Roach (June 2026), Cold (August 2026)

Fission (2024)

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Their second album on Spinefarm is an explosive, jubilant cocktail — turbulent, anthemic, driven by themes of struggle and personal transformation. The riffs are powerful and precise, the melodies introspective, and Jack Underkofler’s voice oscillates between contained rage and soaring vulnerability.

Essential tracks:

• My Condition — the single that encapsulates their sound
• Running In Circles — unstoppable live
• HURT (feat. The Warning) — explosive collaboration with the Mexican trio
• 81 Tonnes — heavy and addictive

Monarch (2026)

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Third studio album, due October 2, 2026 via Spinefarm. Produced by Paul Meany (Mutemath / Twenty One Pilots), mixed by Adam Hawkins, recorded in Los Angeles. The band say they wanted to “carve out their own piece of territory” by digging deeper into what makes Dead Poet Society — weight, melody, emotional intensity.

Three singles already set the tone:

• Sinner Systems (May 2026) — dark, brooding, a mirror to excess and emotional numbness
• Roach (June 2026) — about those who have wronged you, taken advantage of you, hurt you
• Cold (August 2026) — social performance, dissociation, validation at all costs; video directed by Jack Underkofler

Tracklist:

1. Hollywood On Fire
2. Roach
3. Die If You Don’t
4. Sinner Systems
5. Lost
6. Cold
7. Psalm 136
8. Dead On The Inside
9. Miami For The Weekend
10. Get Hot
11. The Park
12. The Art of Suffering

Live

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Dead Poet Society are first and foremost a live band. They’ve toured with Badflower, Biffy Clyro, and Highly Suspect, and played major European festivals (Graspop, Reading & Leeds, 2000Trees, Welcome to Rockville). Their set is intense, physical, cathartic — the kind of show you walk out of drained but alive.

They played Le Rocher de Palmer (Bordeaux) in July 2025. In fall 2026, a North American co-headlining run with Honey Revenge to launch Monarch, then a Europe / UK tour in early 2027.

Dates not to miss:

Full tour (Lisbon → Helsinki, Jan–Mar 2027) and tickets via wearedps.com.