Severed Ties

Infobox Album |
Name = Severed Ties
Type = Album
Artist = The Amity Affliction


Released = October 4th, 2008
Genre = Post-hardcore
Length = 40:00
Label = Boomtown Records
Last album = "High Hopes"
(2004)
This album = "Severed Ties"
(2008)

"Severed Ties" is the debut album by Brisbane band, The Amity Affliction. It was released on October 4th, 2008 through Boomtown Records

The album features guest vocals from many prominent Australian bands such as;

* Michael Crafter of I Killed the Prom Queen/Confession
* Helmet Roberts of The Daylight Curse
* Lochlan Watt of The Surrogate
* Matthew Wright of The Getaway Plan
* JJ Peters of I Killed the Prom Queen/Deez Nuts

Track listing

#"I Heart Roberts'" (Featuring Helmet Roberts)
#"B.D.K.I.A.F"
#"Snitches Get Stitches" (Featuring Lochlan Watt)
#"Do You Party?"
#"Poison Pen Letters"
#"Fruity Lexia"
#"So You Melted..." (Featuring Matthew Wright)
#"Jesse Intense" (Featuring Michael Crafter & Matthew Wright)
#"The Blair Snitch Project"
#"Love is a Battlefield" (Pat Benatar cover)
#"Stairway to Hell" (Featuring JJ Peters)

Trivia

* Poison Pen Letters is the title of a track from the demo compilation 'State of Affairs'.
* Love Is a Battlefield is a cover of a track by Pat Benatar
* Several tracks on the album contain samples from several movies, due to copyright restrictions the label was forced to remove them, however on the first few thousand copies printed they still remain.
* Track 1 "I Heart Roberts'" contains a sound sample from the film Hot Rod (film).