AFI Reveal New Album 'Burials' Dropping This Fall
After four years of silence, AFI recently roared back with the bombastic, crushingly loud "I Hope You Suffer" single. Now the 22-year-old alt-rock outfit have unveiled the title and release date of their ninth album: Burials drops October 22.
Frontman Davey Havok recently gave a wounded-heart-on-his-sleeve interview to Rolling Stone about the upcoming release. "[Burials] is certainly—embarrassingly so—a very dark album," Havok said. "Which, to be honest, is disappointing to me. I can't escape it…. I'm crippled. There's nothing I can do but be genuine in my writing."
As for how Burials will sound—AFI have touched upon everything from hardcore to emo to electronic since forming in '91—fans should expect something more challenging than their last LP, 2009's Crash Love. "This album is very layered and very rich and far, far less straightforward than what we did on the last record," Havok told Rolling Stone. "When [guitarist] Jade [Puget] and I began writing we were immediately quite prolific. The songs just came out, and they came out in relatively similar forms to the songs that people will hear on the record."
Listen to "I Hope You Suffer" below and check out AFI's tour dates on their site.
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