New Album From Multiplatinum Alt-Rockers AFI – Burials Out Oct 22
For Immediate Release
AFI ANNOUNCE OCTOBER 22 RELEASE FOR BURIALS
BAND PREVIEWS ALBUM WITH FIRST TRACK “I HOPE YOU SUFFER”
VANCOUVER DATE CONFIRMED - NOVEMBER 2 AT COMMODORE BALLROOM
(TORONTO – July 25, 2013) – Multiplatinum alt-rock band AFI have announced an October 22 release for their highly anticipated new album Burials via Republic Records / Universal Music Canada, the country’s leading music company. The news follows last week’s sneak preview of the album’s first track, “I Hope You Suffer”, which the band posted on their official site, www.afireinside.net. Rolling Stone described “I Hope You Suffer” (now available on iTunes) as an “epic” song, “layering [lead vocalist Davey] Havok's anguished cries within a lightning storm of distortion, synthetic orchestrations and volcanic percussion.” About the album, Havok says, “This record is of silence, of burials, and the burials that result from that silence. It’s of betrayal, cruelty, weakness, anxiety, panic - deep and slow - despair, injury and loss. And in this it is shamefully honest and resolutely unforgiving.” AFI (Havok, guitarist Jade Puget, bassist Hunter Burgan and drummer Adam Carson) will be performing “I Hope You Suffer” and previewing additional songs from Burials during their upcoming North American tour, which kicks off September 12 at the Varsity Theater in Minneapolis. Burials is AFI’s ninth full-length studio album and the Cali-based band recorded the album with producer Gil Norton (Pixies, Patti Smith, Foo Fighters) at East West Studios in Los Angeles. The record was mixed by Andrew Scheps (Metallica, Red Hot Chili Peppers). Over the course of the past several weeks, the band has posted a series of starkly shot black and white vignettes, the first of which debuted in early April. Together with director Surround (The Killers, TV on the Radio, The Drums, Usher, The Bravery), they have created six to date, all of which can be seen at www.afireinside.net. In other news, a remix of a new AFI song titled “17 Crimes” will serve as the end title track to the upcoming film, The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. “17 Crimes” also appears on the soundtrack, which is being released on August 20th. The band will embark on a huge North American tour which brings them to Vancouver on November 2. For more tour information, visit www.afireinside.net. Since the release of 1995’s debut album Answer That and Stay Fashionable, AFI have written and recorded five top ten hit singles (“Miss Murder,” “Medicate,” “Love Like Winter,” “Silver and Gold,” “Girl’s Not Grey”), hit No. 1 on The Billboard 200 (with the stunning Decemberunderground), garnered critical acclaim and amassed a fiercely loyal international following whose members number in the millions.- 30 -