The Amity Affliction reveals new album Let The Ocean Take Me
The Amity Affliction has announced details of their eagerly awaited new album. Let The Ocean Take Me, the Australian metalcore masters’ fourth full-length release, is due to arrive on Fri 6th June.
Named by Alternative Press as one of 2014’s “Most Anticipated” albums, Let The Ocean Take Me features the powerful first single, Pittsburgh, whose video has premiered exclusively at the band's official website and Youtube channel.
Urgent, aggressive, and remarkably cathartic, Let The Ocean Take Me is The Amity Affliction at their most vital best. Recorded by producer Will Putney (Winds Of Plague, Upon A Burning Body) at guitarist Troy Brady’s Evergreen Studios in Brisbane, the album pushes the band’s signature post-hardcore approach to new heights of richness and diversity, providing the consummate aural partner to vocalist Joel Birch’s increasingly more potent lyricism. Inspired in part by a near death experience suffered during last year’s Vans Warped Tour, songs like Don’t Lean On Me and FML are fuelled by desperate emotion and intense anxiety but achieve extraordinary transcendence through radical honesty and raw power.
“(The album) is about really trying to find a positive in my life again,” Birch says. “Writing these songs was a very cathartic process, but I’m terrified of people listening to them and reading these lyrics because they’ll know exactly what I’m thinking. I’m hiding nothing.”
For more than a decade, The Amity Affliction has used music to entertain while simultaneously confronting the very darkest edges of man’s existence. Severed Ties, 2008’s full-length debut, and 2010’s follow-up Youngbloods instantly established the band’s twisted take, all revved-up rhythms, soaring melodies, and full-bore vocals coming together to fashion something provocative and distinct. Let The Ocean Take Me follows 2012’s Chasing Ghosts which debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIA Chart - the rare rock record to achieve that major milestone - and has since been certified gold.
Named by Alternative Press as one of 2014’s “Most Anticipated” albums, Let The Ocean Take Me features the powerful first single, Pittsburgh, whose video has premiered exclusively at the band's official website and Youtube channel.
Urgent, aggressive, and remarkably cathartic, Let The Ocean Take Me is The Amity Affliction at their most vital best. Recorded by producer Will Putney (Winds Of Plague, Upon A Burning Body) at guitarist Troy Brady’s Evergreen Studios in Brisbane, the album pushes the band’s signature post-hardcore approach to new heights of richness and diversity, providing the consummate aural partner to vocalist Joel Birch’s increasingly more potent lyricism. Inspired in part by a near death experience suffered during last year’s Vans Warped Tour, songs like Don’t Lean On Me and FML are fuelled by desperate emotion and intense anxiety but achieve extraordinary transcendence through radical honesty and raw power.
“(The album) is about really trying to find a positive in my life again,” Birch says. “Writing these songs was a very cathartic process, but I’m terrified of people listening to them and reading these lyrics because they’ll know exactly what I’m thinking. I’m hiding nothing.”
For more than a decade, The Amity Affliction has used music to entertain while simultaneously confronting the very darkest edges of man’s existence. Severed Ties, 2008’s full-length debut, and 2010’s follow-up Youngbloods instantly established the band’s twisted take, all revved-up rhythms, soaring melodies, and full-bore vocals coming together to fashion something provocative and distinct. Let The Ocean Take Me follows 2012’s Chasing Ghosts which debuted at #1 on the Australian ARIA Chart - the rare rock record to achieve that major milestone - and has since been certified gold.
