Misery The Amity Affliction to stream in hi-fi, or to download in True CD Quality on Qobuz.com. Listen to this album in high quality now on our apps. Stream or download your music. Buy an album or an individual track. Or listen to our entire catalogue with our high. Aug 24, 2018 Misery is the sixth studio album by Australian metalcore band The Amity Affliction. The album was released on 24 August 2018. It is the first album without drummer Ryan Burt, following his departure in February 2018. UPDATE – JAN 8TH: The Amity Affliction have now confirmed the details surrounding the album, including cover artwork, full track listing, and pre-orders. ORIGINAL: Australian metalcore/post-hardcore outfit The Amity Affliction are set to release their seventh album next month, which will follow-up their 2018 offering, ‘Misery’. Misery is the sixth studio album by Australian metalcore band the Amity Affliction.The album was released on 24 August 2018. It is the first album without drummer Ryan Burt, following his departure in February 2018. It is also the first album to feature Joel Birch performing clean vocals on some tracks on the album along with the album being a departure from the band's usual straight metalcore.
You would be lying to yourself if you didn’t at least admit to knowing The Amity Affliction and perhaps even enjoying one or two of their rather formulaic metalcore tunes. The band have said that with this album they attempted to change the formula to keep it interesting for themselves, so let’s see what they have come up with.
Opening up with ‘Ivy (Doomsday)’ the first noticeable thing is the heavy use of synth and Joel Birch’s cleaner, more gravel styled vocal approach. Not too bad; if you enjoyed the last Bring Me The Horizon album, this sounds like an off cut from that.
‘Feels Like I Am Dying’ pushes the new sound even further, keeping their foot planted in the BMTH popcore land of big synths and drums that sound very programmed. While this isn’t bad, it already feels as if Amity is just trying too hard to make this new sound work.
They next attempt to claw back some of their old sound when ‘Holier Than Heaven’ kicks in and it will feel like a welcome return after the opening salvo of tracks leads any fan old or new to wonder what is happening. Ahren Stringer and Joel Birch’s vocals are more natural, and the song burns with a venom that feels missing on most of the album.
The middle of Misery just sinks back into over synthesized, directionless popcore. The band even throw some rather annoying vocal effects on the title track, a song that sounds like an ill-conceived remix of something that was terrible to start with.
Among all the worse-than-usual that has been Amity’s slow descent over the last couple of albums, there are highlights, however small. The aforementioned ‘Holier Than Heaven’ as well as the ballad- like ‘Kick Rocks’ that carries itself carefully along the new/old sound, and ‘Beltsville Blues’ feels like a homage to Aussie rock of sorts.
I always do my best to attempt to see the good in what I am listening to, because I feel that all music has a place somewhere and with someone. On this album though, The Amity Affliction have taken lazy lyric writing and an over-reliance on technology to try and recreate a sound that has worked for another band within their scene. But Bring Me The Horizon was a slow burn across albums that didn’t just rely on the shock and awe tactic of a single release and the hope it would carry them. It feels that The Amity Affliction has done just that here, and it will likely push more people away than welcome fresh fans. And as a fan of this band’s earlier output, that hurts a little to admit.
- Ivy (Doomsday)
- Feels Like I’m Dying
- Holier Than Heaven
- Burn Alive
- Misery
- Kick Rocks
- Black Cloud
- I.E.
- Drag the Lake
- Beltsville Blues
- Set Me Free
- The Gifthorse
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Surprise! The Amity Affliction has shared two b-sides from their latest record, Everyone Loves You … Once You Leave Them.
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Frontman Joel Birch spoke on both tracks, Midnight Train and Don’t Wade in the Water.
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“Midnight Train came about from Ahren just singing ‘midnight train’ in amongst some other garbage when he did the scratch track for me to get an idea of how he wanted to sing the chorus,”he says. “We wrote the entire song around those two words, which wasn’t actually hard because there was some context to it. It follows an arc of my relationship with my wife, ending where we are today. We’ve known each other for 25 years and the song covers some key moments for both of us.”
Don’t Wade in the Water is just as personal, with Birch adding,”It’s a song about my mother and father and the role the church had in separating them, and then the role that the church and religion played in my later life. Obviously, it is a play on the old hymn sung by Ella Jenkins, which is a beautiful, beautiful song. I wanted to contrast that with my own personal experience, which was disenfranchising to say the least … There is a conversation happening within the song between my mother and father which is tumultuous and emotional, with two opposing sides with two opposing ways of viewing the world, and I really feel like it was captured well with the music. Ultimately, it didn’t make the cut, but I honestly like this song as much as all the songs that made it to the record.”
Since forming in 2008, Amity have become one of the biggest names in Australian music. They’ve sold countless records, and achieved three ARIA gold-certified albums with Youngbloods (2010), Chasing Ghosts (2012) and This Could Be Heartbreak (2016). They also achieved platinum certification in Australia for Let The Ocean Take Me (2014).
Everyone Loves You … Once You Leave Them was recorded with Matt Squire, who worked with the band on Misery. Like their past releases it absolutely smashed it on the ARIA charts, debuting at #2.
You can stream Midnight Train and Don’t Wade in the Water now, and grab Amity’s last album through Warner Music Australia.