AFI – Californian Gothwave Celebs Go Nuclear On New Album ‘SILVER BLEEDS THE BLACK SUN…’
4 October 2025
Band: AFI (abbreviation for A Fire Inside)
Who: Weathered high-volume veteran goth rockers
from Ukiah, California who started to turn up the
darkwave decibels in 1991.
Album: SILVER BLEEDS THE BLACK SUN…
Their 12th one.
Album artwork
Press info: “For more than three decades, AFI has been a band in a constant state
of reinvention. No album they’ve released has sounded much like the one before it, sometimes dramatically so. The band has never gotten too comfortable in one genre
or allowed themselves to coast on any successes.
It’s an approach that has regularly challenged their audience, as their sonic identity has shifted in wild, unexpected directions every few years. But on their twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…, the members of AFI managed to surprise even themselves.”
Davey Havok (frontman): “I realize this is something we’ve said about our records
for years, but this record is starkly different from what we’ve done in the past. In our
33 years together, we’ve covered so much, musically, that I found myself daunted at
the prospect of doing something different, and questioning what that would be.”
TUTV: AFI display the same Goth grandeur and darkwave bombast Bauhaus were
so famous for. But they even take it a level higher with their galactic, bass-motorized tunes, supercharged with sky-scraping, nuclear choruses.
It all feels like watching a Götterdämmerung opera with vivacious vox Havok as the
star in the middle, surrounded by a full hellacious orchestra. Raise the stage curtain.
Aplause! Aplause!
SINGLE
ALBUM
