AFI is giving fans another peek at their upcoming EP The Missing Man (Ex Noctem Nacimur) with today’s release of “Trash Bat”. Listen to the track now below.
About the song, AFI guitarist Jade Puget (who also produced and mixed the EP) says, “This was the ideal song to kick off the EP. From Adam’s big drum fill at the top all the way through to the end, it’s just a quick burst of frenetic energy. I brought the song in and was playing it for Davey and he threw out the line, “my Trash Bat” and I thought, how can you lose with a title like that? What is a Trash Bat anyway? Who cares!”
“Trash Bat” follows the surprise-release of “Get Dark” (heard HERE), which Brooklyn Vegan praised for being “the kind of catchy, driving punk that will bring you right back to [AFI’s 2003 album] Sing The Sorrow.”
Both “Get Dark” and “Trash Bat” are available as instant downloads by clicking HERE to pre-order The Missing Man ahead of its December 7th release. On December 8th, the band will play KROQ’s Almost Acoustic Christmas, the 9th they have a sold-out show at the Ace of Spades in Sacramento, CA, and another sold-out show on the 10th at The Observatory North Park in San Diego, CA.
The Missing Man follows last year’s AFI (The Blood Album), which hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative and Hard Rock Albums Charts and No. 5 on The Billboard 200. It was the band’s second consecutive Top 10 Billboard debut following 2013’s Burials.