AFICalifornian rockers AFI have put a date to the Australian release of their ninth studio record, with fans getting a taste of their first full length since 2009.
The punk rockers from Ukiah in the Golden State are primed to release Burials Down Under on Friday 18 October. The highly anticipated full length has been teased on the band's homepage and YouTube through a series of six black and white vignettes posted over the last few weeks – directed by Surround (The Killers, TV on the Radio).
Here is the first installment in the collection, with the remaining videos featured here.
AFI recorded Burials at Los Angeles-based East West Studios with Gil Norton, who has worked with the likes of Pixies, Foo Fighters and Patti Smith, and mixed by Andrew Scheps of Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers fame, the band's frontman Davey Havok links the release with a range of life's trials and tribulations.
“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,” he said.
A sneak peak of the record was also released last week with its first release, I Hope You Suffer, posted on their website.
With five US Top 10 hit singles, including Miss Murder, and a recorded number 1 on the Billboard 200 with Decemberunderground, Burials is set to follow an extensive and critically acclaimed back catalogue.
Burials will hit shelves Friday 18 October through Republic Records.
