AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... SIRE661870.1

AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun... SIRE661870.1For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band have made it a point to evolve with every album sometimes dramatically so never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels. It's an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with their twelfth album,

The album's title takes inspiration from the aesthetics of Japanese gardening

It is the follow up to 2013's Modern Vampires of the City

laid down what would become his masterpiece: Soul Station

This album followed their six-track Grammy Award-winning CDEP The Distant Future

with tracks like "Irene"

Created as an accompaniment to Blackberry Smoke's acclaimed 2018 album

If This Is Wrong

including their first to be inspired by the holiday

"Long Island Wildin'" was a collaboration with Japanese hip hop artists Kan Takagi (Major Force) and trio Scha Dara Parr (SDP)

I didn't really have a plan when I started this project

driven and creative than ever

Redman first met the group in 1990 while DJing at a club