AFI share lyric video for their new single Trash Bat

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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AFI's new track Trash Bat will appear on the band’s upcoming EP The Missing Man - out on Friday

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AFI have shared a lyric video for their new single Trash Bat.

It’s the latest track to be taken from their upcoming EP The Missing Man, which will be released this coming Friday (December 7) via Ex Noctem Nacimur.

AFI previously launched Get Dark (opens in new tab) back in October.

Guitarist Jade Puget, who also produced and mixed the EP, says: “This was the ideal song to kick off the EP. From Adam Carson’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 Havok 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!”

The Missing Man follows AFI’s 2017 release The Blood Album, which hit No.1 on the Billboard Alternative and Hard Rock Albums Charts.

AFI have three shows in California lined up for later this month (opens in new tab).

AFI: The Missing Man
1. Trash Bat
2. Break Angels
3. Back Into The Sun
4. Get Dark
5. The Missing Man

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AFI are all set to launch their new EP The Missing Man – the band's first collection of new material since 2017's The Blood Album. It features the lead tracks Get Dark and Trash Bat.

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Scott Munro
Scott Munro
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Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.