Lance Pettis
Oct 28, 2026
With Cove Reber back on vocals, Saosin brought two decades of post-hardcore favorites to Marquee Theatre, celebrating their first full-length album while offering a glimpse of what's next.
Saosin brought some of their best nostalgia to Marquee Theater in Tempe, Arizona on October 24th in celebration of their self-titled album, originally released in 2006. The Southern California band revisited a truly defining chapter of their career with a set that you already knew would pack a punch with fan favorites and that post hardcore sound we all grew to love that helped establish their place in the scene.
Fresh off of signing with Sumerian Records and releasing “Starting Over Again,” the band showed us with this single alone that they still know how to make people feel their feels and that they are not only making this a celebration but showing us what lies ahead for the coming future.
Formed in Orange County in 2003, Saposin first gained attendance with their influential Translating the Name EP before releasing their self-titled full-length album three years later. The album became a defining release for a generation of Alt and post-hardcore fans, featuring songs that continue to resonate two decades later. The return of Cove Reber, who was doing other projects like Dead American and Le Tired before his return, added another meaningful layer to this anniversary.
Reflecting on the album's lasting impact, Reber stated that this album really shaped and defined a major chapter of his life and the lives of so many others, which it truly has, and it's something we can always go back to and remember that time we first picked up that album. His return brings so much excitement to a record that shaped the band's overall history and the lives of its listeners, and you can see that from this show alone.
Throughout the night, Saosin delivered such a remarkable set that was filled with crowd-surfing, fans singing, and songs that just took you back from “Voices,” “Bury Your Head,” “3rd Measurement in C,” and would, could forget “Seven Years,” which the crowd went wild for.
Twenty years after the release of their self-titled, Saosin’s stop at the Marquee Theater showed us long-time fans that we have so much more coming from them. They have sparked up a flame that we missed so much in this band, and you can see that from this night alone. You can see the new wave of fans jumping on this train that this show alone had so many kids on their parents' backs yelling out the lyrics, kids crowd-surfing for the first time, that it really makes you look back and think that was once us and we thank Saosin for that.