Australia- THE AMITY AFFLICTION have released their new album House Of Cards via Pure Noise Records and alongside that comes the single/video for Kickboxer. It is impossible to consider the music of THE AMITY AFFLICTION as anything but visceral, emotional and relentless in its energy and impact. Their storied career has produced eight studio albums that have become torchbearers for many formative chapters of Australian metal music; as a band, THE AMITY AFFLICTION has firmly established their place as one of the country’s most enduring names of the heavy genre. In 2026, the band embrace change and reinvigoration more than before with the creation and execution of their long awaited ninth studio album, the epic HOUSE OF CARDS. The record, created with new member and clean vocalist JONNY REEVES, sees the four-piece stride forward into new creative territory; tightly gripping the reins of control over their future. As a result, they have produced an album of material that represents some of the band’s most personal lyricism to date, buoyed by some of their heaviest and most cohesive music in their catalogue. Fans have been given tastes of the ferocity behind HOUSE OF CARDS across a string of massive singles including the album’s title track, ‘BLEED’, and ‘HEAVEN SENT’. Strong standalones, these songs blend just as well as part of the album’s broader palette. For JOEL BIRCH, this album is an incredibly personal one; a project he explains is “almost entirely written about my mother”, and experiences he has navigated as a young person. The songs thread together different memories and chapters of his life, delivered with vulnerability and passion. “…If it isn’t about my mother specifically, it is about things that I have experienced that are directly tied to my experience growing up and where that has landed me now. ‘Break These Chains’ is directly tied to that and the confusion I felt when dealing with my mother dying and all the crazy shit she had at her house, ‘Speaking In Tongues’ is about the hypocrisy of my mother sending me off to church constantly throughout my life and my very negative experiences within said church, ‘Afterlife’ is me musing on my lack of belief that there is an afterlife, ‘Reap What You Sow’ follows on from there in its own way and ‘Eternal War’ is the closer that explains how I find myself feeling a lot of the time. There is a line in there “the fool is blind the hand is dealt” which I wrote about my consistent hope that one day my mother would change, written in the context of a gambling addict chasing the perfect hand.” JOEL BIRCH The addition of Reeves into the fold adds new chemistry to what THE AMITY AFFLICTION had already honed and refined across previous album cycles. Providing effortless contrast and dynamics when coupled with Birch’s heavy vocals, the listener experiences highlights of the duo’s vocals at numerous points (‘BREAK THESE CHAINS’, ‘SWAN DIVE’, ‘REAP WHAT YOU SOW’). THE AMITY AFFLICTION – Birch, Reeves and the talented DAN BROWN and JOE LONGOBARDI – manifest pure power with HOUSE OF CARDS, in a way that will serve as a reminder of the band’s passion and dedication to the craft. This is an album of songs that navigates dark themes including grief, addiction, rage and loss, in a way that seeks catharsis and release. Lead single ‘KICKBOXER’ is an excellent example of the album’s sonic ambition. Birch remembers, “The way this song came about is very funny: Dan was watching Kickboxer on the bus and there is a line in the movie where Van Damme says “It’s good stuff, what is this?” and the answer is “translated, kiss of death.” Dan sent me a text later that night… “Hey can you write a song with Kiss of Death in it?” When he asks things like this it’s always because he has had a song come to him and knows exactly how he wants it to sound before it’s written. I wrote that song in my bunk on tour, as I do many others, and it’s just a song expressing my distaste for the way I grew up having people pray for me, or lay hands on me to pray, and how I’m not waiting on some divine being to come and save me from any situation I am in.” WATCH VIDEO FOR ‘KICKBOXER’ BELOW 
2026 has already proved to be a busy and fruitful one for THE AMITY AFFLICTION; the preparation of this new album coinciding with an extensive tour of regional Australia, and the development of an international touring schedule that will see the band return to stages across North America, Europe and the UK. HOUSE OF CARDS EU/UK 2026
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ORTHODOX 18 September 2026 · Schlachthof · Wiesbaden · Germany
19 September 2026 · Palladium · Cologne · Germany
20 September 2026 · Große Freiheit 36 · Hamburg · Germany
22 September 2026 · Fållan · Stockholm · Sweden
24 September 2026 · Ääniwalli · Helsinki · Finland
26 September 2026 · Rockefeller · Oslo · Norway
27 September 2026 · Vega · Copenhagen · Denmark
28 September 2026 · Huxleys · Berlin · Germany
29 September 2026 · Progresja · Warsaw · Poland
1 October 2026 · Roxy · Prague · Czech Republic
2 October 2026 · Gasometer · Vienna · Austria
3 October 2026 · Tonhalle · Munich · Germany
5 October 2026 · Komplex 457 · Zürich · Switzerland
6 October 2026 · Élysée Montmartre · Paris · France
7 October 2026 · Zappa · Antwerp · Belgium
8 October 2026 · 013 · Tilburg · Netherlands
10 October 2026 · O2 Ritz · Manchester · United Kingdom
11 October 2026 · O2 Forum Kentish Town · London · United Kingdom
12 October 2026 · Rock City · Nottingham · United Kingdom
13 October 2026 · O2 Academy · Bristol · United Kingdom Tickets on general sale THE AMITY AFFLICTION- ‘HOUSE OF CARDS’ IS OUT NOW | 
