For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention.

The band have made it a point to evolve with every album—sometimes dramatically so—never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels.

It’s an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions.

Now with their twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…, AFI are once again at the start of a bold new chapter, only this time they’ve even managed to surprise themselves.