House Of Cards
“I wrote this song for my brother, sister and myself; our mother died in July 2024 and none of us had a healthy relationship with her. She was very self involved, aggressive, abusive in our early years and in her latter years spent a good amount of time trying to put a wedge between the three of us. Thankfully once she passed the three of us actually became closer as we realised we had individual, but shared trauma related to her. The line “sister, I never saw you get your flowers” is about how my mother never helped my sister through her formative years as a young woman; there was no nurturing, no advice, just judgement. The line “brother, your heart was torn out by our mother” is fairly self explanatory, but our mother held him to an insane standard – as she did with me – and really left all three of us, but particularly my brother, feeling like we had failed at everything we had done. As an aside, after she saw Amity play to 8,000 people in Brisbane she asked when I was going to go back to uni to start a career… “
– Joel Birch (The Amity Affliction)
Embracing a new chapter of artistry as a band, THE AMITY AFFLICTION announce their long-awaited new studio album, HOUSE OF CARDS.
Releasing via PURE NOISE RECORDS on Friday, April 24th, HOUSE OF CARDS is the first full-length outing from THE AMITY AFFLICTION to feature clean vocalist JONNY REEVES, who became a permanent addition to the lineup in 2025.
Bolstering JOEL BIRCH’s signature fusion of intense and open lyricism, the arrangements and vocal duality provided by THE AMITY AFFLICTION throughout the DNA of this new album is set to reaffirm the band’s status as one of heavy music’s most dynamic groups.
Now, the band shares the first taste of the new album – the impactful title track, ‘House of Cards’. A song penned by Birch for his brother and sister (and himself), taking stock of the relationship shared with their mother; a central figure at the heart of the new album.
