Following the announcement of their forthcoming album ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ due October 3rd via Run For Cover Records, AFI share the new offering ‘Holy Visions,’ which arrives with a performance video directed by Gilbert Trejo portraying the band bathed in pink and blue light. ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ marks the twelfth album from AFI and will include the previously shared single ‘Behind the Clock’, which also arrived with a music video directed by Trejo.
Speaking about the video, Havok shares: “Getting to work with Gilbert on two videos was a joy. ‘Holy Visions’ is the perfect visual sublimation of the song.”
For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band have made it a point to evolve with every album – sometimes dramatically so – never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels. It’s an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’, AFI are once again at the start of an exciting new chapter, only this time they’ve even managed to surprise themselves.
The goal of ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ was to make an album with a singular mood, something dreamy and ethereal, and the band members found themselves diving headfirst into influences that had always been deeply embedded in AFI’s musical core, but now were being brought to the forefront. The result is an album that feels out of time, at once familiar and fresh, drawing on classic sounds and reinterpreting them through a modern lens. ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ is dark and otherworldly, but also grandiose and stately, biting and beautiful in equal measure—in other words, it’s very AFI, yet not quite like any version of the band you’ve ever heard before.