THE AMITY AFFLICTION Releases Video For 'This Could Be Heartbreak' Title Track

Roadrunner Records group THE AMITY AFFLICTION has announced the release of “This Could Be Heartbreak”, the title track and new single from their highly anticipated new album. The “This Could Be Heartbreak” full-length disc arrives on Friday, August 12.

“This Could Be Heartbreak” is available now for pre-order in a variety of limited edition physical bundles TheAmityAffliction.net and all DSPs, with all digital pre-orders accompanied by an instant grat download of “This Could Be Heartbreak”, as well as the album’s gripping first single, “I Bring The Weather With Me”.

“This Could Be Heartbreak” is joined by an equally compelling companion video directed by Mark Staubach, which can be seen below. Today’s premiere follows the recent video debut of “I Bring The Weather With Me”, also directed by Staubach and fast approaching 1.5 million individual views at YouTube alone.

THE AMITY AFFLICTION will celebrate “This Could Be Heartbreak” with a suitably epic world tour, highlighted by a North American headline trek this fall. The dates — which see the influential Australian band traveling with special guests including BEING AS AN OCEAN, HUNDRETH, TROPHY EYES and DEADSHIPS — get underway September 11 at the Grenada Theatre in Lawrence, Kansas and then continue through mid-October.

Furthermore, THE AMITY AFFLICTION is set to perform at a range of upcoming summer festivals, including Denver, Colorado’s High Elevation (September 10), Chester, Pennsylvania’s Rock Allegiance (September 18), Fort Worth, Texas’s Texas Mutiny (September 24), Houston, Texas’s Houston Open Air (September 25), Louisville, Kentucky’s Louder Than Life (October 1) and Janesville, Wisconcin’s Sonic Boom (October 2).

The North American tour dates follow an incredibly busy summer schedule for THE AMITY AFFLICTION. The band — which has just wrapped a successful European run highlighted by performances at such famed festivals as France’s Hellfest and the U.K.’s legendary Download — recently announced a series of intimate Australian headline shows, all of which sold out in a matter of minutes.

Deeply personal and emotionally wrenching, “This Could Be Heartbreak” is THE AMITY AFFLICTION‘s most transformative and revealing record yet. Recorded by producer and longtime collaborator Will Putney at Melbourne’s Holes And Corners with additional drum tracking done at Sing Sing Studios, the album finds THE AMITY AFFLICTION evolving their signature powerful and cathartic song craft. Both ambitious and grand, album standouts “This Could Be Heartbreak” and “All Fucked Up” are equal parts heavy and hopeful, fueled by frontman Joel Birch’s desperation which achieves extraordinary transcendence through radical honesty and absolute power.

“This Could Be Heartbreak” track listing:

01. I Bring The Weather With Me
02. This Could Be Heartbreak
03. Nightmare
04. Tearing Me Apart
05. O.M.G.I.M.Y.
06. All Fucked Up
07. Fight My Regret
08. Some Friends
09. Wishbone
10. Note To Self
11. Blood In My Mouth