The Amity Affliction Unveil Midnight Train And Don't Wade In The Water

Aussie metalcore mob The Amity Affliction have unveiled two new B-sides from their latest album, Everyone Loves You… Once You Leave Them.

Explaining the origin of both Midnight Train and Don't Wade In The Water, vocalist Joel Birch reveals, "Midnight Train came about from Ahren [Stringer, vocals/bass] just singing 'midnight train' in amongst some other garbage when he did the scratch track for me to get an idea of how he wanted to sing the chorus.

"We wrote the entire song around those two words, which wasn't actually hard because there was some context to it. It follows an arc of my relationship with my wife, ending where we are today. We've known each other for 25 years and the song covers some key moments for both of us."

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The frontman then says of Don't Wade In The Water: "It's song about my mother and father and the role the church had in separating them, and then the role that the church and religion played in my later life. Obviously, it is a play on the old hymn sung by Ella Jenkins, which is a beautiful, beautiful song. I wanted to contrast that with my own personal experience, which was disenfranchising to say the least.

"There is a conversation happening within the song between my mother and father which is tumultuous and emotional, with two opposing sides with two opposing ways of viewing the world, and I really feel like it was captured well with the music. Ultimately, it didn't make the cut, but I honestly like this song as much as all the songs that made it to the record."

This is Midnight Train:

And here's Don't Wade In The Water:

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