Misery by The Amity Affliction

Misery, the Amity Affliction's sixth studio album, came out on Roadrunner on 24 August 2018, and the Gympie, Queensland metalcore band use it to shake up the formula. Matt Squire produced, and for the first time Joel Birch sings clean on some tracks, while electronic textures get layered over the band's metalcore attack. The result is still heavy, just glossier and more melodic.

It was also a record made mid-reshuffle: longtime drummer Ryan Burt had left that February, so Joe Longobardi played on it as a session man before being made a full member at year's end, with Dan Brown on guitar. The band's familiar themes, depression, anxiety and the dark stretches of Birch's past, still drive the songs, and "Ivy (Doomsday)" is the track that reached the countdowns. Following This Could Be Heartbreak, it was their last album for Roadrunner and UNFD.

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