The Amity Affliction’s one off Sydney Opera House show was already shaping up as a ridiculous way to close out the year, now they’ve brought Thornhill and WAAX along for the ride.
The Amity Affliction have announced Thornhill and WAAX as special guests for their only Australian headline show of the year, taking over the Sydney Opera House Forecourt on Saturday, December 12th.
First announced back in April following the release of ninth album ‘House Of Cards’, the one off show puts one of Australian heavy music’s biggest exports against a backdrop normally associated with considerably less screaming.
Adding Thornhill and WAAX makes the whole thing feel less like an isolated victory lap and more like a snapshot of Australian heavy and alternative music right now.
THE AMITY AFFLICTION
with Thornhill and WAAX
Saturday, December 12th – Sydney, Sydney Opera House Forecourt
Find out more and pick up your tickets here.
Thornhill Join Amity At The Opera House
Melbourne’s Thornhill arrive after another massive stretch internationally, last years album ‘Bodies’ pushed the band further into their own warped space between metalcore and alternative music, while the past year has included touring North America with Sleep Token, their own Australian headline run and a stack of European festival appearances.
The Opera House slot also brings Thornhill back alongside The Amity Affliction at a point where Australian heavy bands continue to punch well beyond their home market.
Then there’s WAAX, the project led by Maz DeVita, who returned properly this year with third album ‘Angel’s Mess’.
Released independently through Drunk On Power Records, the record opened another chapter for WAAX after a turbulent few years, retaining the serrated punk edge of their earlier work while pushing DeVita’s songwriting somewhere less predictable.
Amity Close Out A Huge Year
For The Amity Affliction, December’s Opera House appearance lands at the tail end of a year built around ‘House Of Cards’.
Released in April, the record marked the band’s first full-length with new clean vocalist Jonny Reeves and found Joel Birch digging back into grief, addiction, religion and childhood trauma.
We described the album at release as one that ‘doesn’t flinch’, and taking that material onto the Opera House steps should make for one of the stranger and more compelling collisions of setting and sound on Sydney’s heavy calendar this year.
This isn’t Amity squeezing another club date into the diary. It’s their only Australian headline show of the year, now backed by two acts representing very different corners of the country’s alternative scene.
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