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 sonever allowing themselves to become too
comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels.
Its an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with
a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with their
twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun, AFI are once again at the
start of a bold new chapter, only this time theyve even managed to surprise
themselves.
How does a band thats known for creative upheaval still find ways to push
themselves out of their comfort zones? Typically the group would start an
album by immediately throwing themselves into writing and simply letting
their intuitive musical shorthand guide the process, but for Silver Bleeds
the Black Sun AFI set out to purposely change their creative approach all
together. This time it started with a conversation: how could they break new
ground?
The key to moving forward actually ended up coming from AFIs collective
past. We started with something that sounded like Echo & the Bunnymen,
explains guitarist Jade Puget, who produced and engineered the album.
But eventually we ended up with this melange of death rock and post-
punkall this stuff from the late 70s and early 80s that we grew up on,
like Sisters of Mercy, and Bauhaus, and Siouxsie and the Banshees. The
goal became making 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 AFIs musical core,
but now were being brought to the forefront.
Silver Bleeds the Black Sun is dark and otherworldly, but also grandiose
and stately, biting and beautiful in equal measurein other words, its very
AFI, yet not quite like any version of the band youve ever heard before.

Track List:

1. The Bird of Prey
2. Behind the Clock
3. Holy Visions
4. Blasphemy & Excess
5. Spear of Truth
6, Ash Speck in a Green Eye
7. VOIDWARD, I BEND BACK
8. Marguerite
9. A World Unmade
10.Nooneunderground

Street Date 10/3/25