THE AMITY AFFLICTION Frontman Reveals New Album Title, Discusses LP's 'Overarching Theme'
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In a recent interview with AndrewHaug.com, Australia's first-ever dedicated 24/7 rock and metal online radio station launched by Andrew Haug, the former host of Triple J Australia's "The Racket" radio show, vocalist Joel Birch of Australian metalcore trailblazers THE AMITY AFFLICTION revealed that the band completed recording its new album five months ago. Pressed about the LP's title and other details, Joel said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I'm not sure I'm allowed to say the title. I'm just gonna fucking say it. It's called 'Not Without My Ghosts', which is something that I saw in… I ripped it off. It's from this art show in Sheffield. And I was just walking past and I saw it, and I just wrote it into my notes. And I never went in or anything."
Birch went on to say that he wants to make it clear that he didn't come up with the phrase himself. "I'll tell everyone. I don't care about that shit. You've gotta credit people," he explained. "I didn't come up with that, but that did inform the direction for my lyrics. 'Cause I was, like, 'Oh, fuck. That's something I can apply to my past behaviors, my past experiences — everything; past traumas and everything.' One of the lines on one of the songs is 'I have to carry on but not without my ghosts.' That's sort of the overarching theme, I guess, of the record."
The 40-year-old singer, who has been diagnosed with the bipolar II disorder, a condition in which people experience patterns of hypomanic episodes, which are briefer and less severe than full manic episodes, along with depressive episodes, elaborated on the meaning of the "Not Without My Ghosts" for him, saying: "You can help it sometimes. No amount of therapy can excise [your ghosts]. It's sort of discussing how to move forward despite them. So happiness despite trauma."
Last month, THE AMITY AFFLICTION shared a powerful new song, "Show Me Your God", which will appear on "Not Without My Ghosts". Watch the video for it here. Speaking about the single, Birch said: "'Show Me Your God' is the first song of our first self-produced record. The song is the first in a series of explorations and internal meditations on how our past shapes us and interacts with our various mental struggles in the present, drawing from both personal experience and also the trauma of close friends who have passed away or who have dealt with close loved ones passing away."
THE AMITY AFFLICTION will kick off a European tour in Paris, France in early January. Support on the trek will come from FIT FOR A KING, GIDEON and SEEYOUSPACECOWBOY.
(Source: www.blabbermouth.net)
