Kerrang! Slam Dunk Festival 2016: The Amity Affliction

Ahren stops by for a chat.

June 1, 2016

Don’t forget to check out The Amity Affliction at this year’s Download Festival!

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News

The Amity Affliction drop new single, Heaven Sent

The final preview ahead of this month’s House Of Cards LP, The Amity Affliction have released new single Heaven Sent – “one of the darker songs on the album…”

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Watch the video for The Amity Affliction’s raging new single, Bleed

“A bit of a ‘f*ck you’ to people online who leave comments like they know me personally…” The Amity Affliction have unleashed a new single and video, Bleed.

Features

“My housing situation was stressful. It felt like things could collapse at any time”: Inside The Amity Affliction’s painful new album

After the death of his estranged mother in July 2024, trauma from Joel Birch’s childhood home flooded back to The Amity Affliction vocalist. As the Queensland metalcore stalwarts announce their ninth LP House Of Cards, he tells K! about challenging motherhood as a “sacred space in society”, and realising he still needed that nugget of optimism…

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Parkway Drive cancel inaugural Park Waves: “Another festival being crushed by the rising costs across our entertainment industry”

Parkway Drive’s Aussie travelling fest has sadly been cancelled, with the band stressing that they’ve “tried every possible option to keep this dream alive, but the reality of the circumstances won’t allow for it”.

Reviews

Live review: Parkway Drive, London OVO Arena Wembley

Parkway Drive put the OVO Arena Wembley in a vice grip as they lean into theatricality for their astounding 20th anniversary celebration.

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Parkway Drive reveal their own Aussie travelling festival, Park Waves

Next year, Parkway Drive will be launching the inaugural Park Waves Festival – a “headbanger’s experience like no other” – with 11 events throughout their home country.

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The Amity Affliction have covered Turnstile’s HOLIDAY, and it rules

See The Amity Affliction cover Turnstile’s massive 2021 banger HOLIDAY for triple j’s series Like A Version.

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Beartooth, I Prevail, Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive announce joint Summer Of Loud tour

As Caleb Shomo proudly reveals, the newly-announced Summer Of Loud tour – with Beartooth, I Prevail, Killswitch Engage, Parkway Drive and more – will be a “clinic in metalcore ass-whoopery”.

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The Amity Affliction drop new single, Heaven Sent

Watch the video for The Amity Affliction’s raging new single, Bleed

“My housing situation was stressful. It felt like things could collapse at any time”: Inside The Amity Affliction’s painful new album

Parkway Drive cancel inaugural Park Waves: “Another festival being crushed by the rising costs across our entertainment industry”

Live review: Parkway Drive, London OVO Arena Wembley

Parkway Drive reveal their own Aussie travelling festival, Park Waves

The Amity Affliction have covered Turnstile’s HOLIDAY, and it rules

Beartooth, I Prevail, Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive announce joint Summer Of Loud tour

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