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Oct 16, 2025Silver Bleeds The Black Sun… is not just the next entry in their incredible evolutionary cycle, it genuinely feels like the culmination of what the band have been trying to do for over a decade.
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Oct 3, 2025Even as the tracks begin to mesh together a bit, hearing the versatility that AFI has pushed themselves towards is thrilling. Sonically, the looming influences of The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees and The Sisters of Mercy trail every chord and drum lick.
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Oct 3, 2025If you want The Art Of Drowning-era iteration, then they’re still there on record forevermore. This is the AFI of 2025, though – older, bolder, hairier and doing things their way – and authenticity never goes out of style.
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Oct 3, 2025Pushing the quartet onto yet another exciting path of artistic and creative evolution, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun is a fully committed, thematic foray into the darker corners of the AFI experience.
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Classic Rock MagazineOct 17, 2025The best 1983 album released in 2025. [Nov 2025, p.78]
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Oct 3, 2025AFI’s latest offering is a good one, but also one that seems to hint at a promise that it never quite fulfills.
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Record CollectorOct 30, 2025Although Holy Visions teeters on the wrong edge of mope-rock melodrama, it's an exception; otherwise, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun is a black-clad, clove-smoking triumph. [Dec 2025, p.100]