The Amity Affliction have always projected as being one of the truly humble and honest bands existing amongst the somewhat inflated egos that can surround the domestic and international metalcore scene, and five minutes into Seems Like Forever it’s startlingly obvious that this is true.
The documentary centres on the four current line-up members with individual sit-down interviews just after wrapping their recent Let The Ocean Take Me tour that are candid and progress through the band’s history in their own words with much of the narrative being driven by bassist and founding member Ahren Stringer.
While the film brushes over the long list of former members, the group set their own pace, giving a chronology that takes us as far back as the band’s first incarnation in Gympie and first gig at Brisbane’s now defunct Mary Street, journeys on the Warped Tour, recording sessions and worldwide jaunts and ending with their most recent domestic shows. Using footage collected over the entire period, it’s the Amity definitive with much behind the scenes and personal footage being spliced in with various wonderfully shot live scenes and played over the top of some fantastic instrumental reworking of Amity’s own music from the period.
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For all its upfront nature however, the film lacks many stories fans want to hear, with only a handful of insights from the band’s dense history being told in favour of details into each album’s recording. It feels more like a skimming of the surface from a band who have so much more to put down.
