AFI releases their new album ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ via Run For Cover Records, today. The twelfth album from AFI includes the previously shared singles ‘Behind the Clock’, ‘Holy Visions’ and ‘Ash Speck in a Green Eye’, the last of which arrived earlier this week. Last month, vocalist Davey Havok sat with the podcast HardLore to discuss the history of the band in a two-part series. In August, AFI graced the cover of Alternative Press where Havok sat with Editor-In-Chief Anna Zanes to discuss the band’s tenure, the sonic shift of ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ and who he has been listening to.
For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band has 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.