AFI have just shared a new single and music video for the track ‘Holy Visions’ from their forthcoming album Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… releasing October 3rd.
AFI have just shared their second single ‘Holy Visions’ from their forthcoming album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…, which is set to release on October 3rd via Run For Cover Records/Civilians.
The band have also shared a new horror-inspired music video directed by Gilbert Trejo for the single, which sees the band lit by hallucinatory pink lights accompanied by a grainy VHS video quality. All of which gives the music video the vibe of a trippy scene from the Nicholas Cage-led film Mandy.
You can watch the music video below:
In an interview with Alt-Press, vocalist Davey Havok shared some of the influences heading into their upcoming record. Havok shared that the band would be pulling from their post-punk progenitors like Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and Echo and the Bunnymen, which have fueled a deeper atmospheric focus for their newer record.
As a result, the album has been described as having a “singular mood”, one that’s both dreamy and ethereal. The record is also one that sounds as though it’s out of time, which, if we’re taking the cult-like VHS visuals of the music video into account, definitely plays into this theme.
“We had meetings, and we talked about creating a record with a singular mood, which is something that we’ve never articulated before,” shared Havok. The singer admitted that they had discussed albums like The Cure’s Pornography, Echo & The Bunnymen’s Heaven Up Here and Malcolm McLaren’s Swamp Thing. “As we began, it almost immediately turned from there to something more tense, something slightly more aggressive. Ironically. Or maybe not ironically. It’s not an aggressive record, but there [are] some aggressive themes.”
Track listing below:
- The Bird of Prey
- Behind the Clock
- Holy Visions
- Blasphemy and Excess
- Spear of Truth
- Ash Speck In A Green Eye
- VOIDWARD, I BEND BACK
- Marguerite
- A World Unmade
- Nooneunderground
AFI’s twelfth record Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… releases on October 3rd on all streaming platforms. You can listen to the first single, ‘Behind the Clock’, here.
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