A World Unmade Lyrics – AFI

Plunge into the abyssal void of “A World Unmade,” a haunting pinnacle of gothic introspection from AFI‘s twelfth studio album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…, unleashing on October 3, 2025, via Run For Cover Records—their first with the label since Bodies in 2021. Davey Havok, the Ukiah-born vocal shapeshifter whose banshee wails propelled AFI from hardcore roots in Black Sails in the Sunset to post-hardcore grandeur in Sing the Sorrow, now croons through baritone shadows and soaring tenors on this track, co-engineered by Jade Puget’s labyrinthine guitars and Adam Carson’s wire-tight drums. Self-recorded in their evolving sonic sanctum, “A World Unmade” drapes sterile darkwave atmospheres over reverberating bass and shimmering riffs, evoking lines that fracture reality: “In the unraveling thread of what was / We dissolve into nothing, unmade by the dawn’s cruel hush.” It’s AFI’s core DNA—Bauhaus brooding meets Siouxsie ether—distilled into a sterile hymn of dissolution, as Havok’s timbre twists like smoke in a post-punk requiem.

Embedded in Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’s 10-track tapestry of “dreamy, otherworldly” reinvention—where influences like Sisters of Mercy pulse through a modern lens—this cut shares the biting beauty of “Blasphemy & Excess” (its blasphemous excess) and the Cure-like impressionism of “Ash Speck in a Green Eye,” threading motifs of eternal endings and gothic grandeur across the record. As AFI tour with TR/ST this fall, prepping for a chapter that surprises even them, “A World Unmade” stands as a sonic eclipse, begging dissection of its production alchemy. Dive into the A World Unmade lyrics below and let Havok’s unraveling pull you under. Don’t miss other Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… tracks like “Blasphemy & Excess” for more of their dark, reinvention-fueled majesty.