Severed Ties

Severed Ties
Studio album by The Amity Affliction
Released	4 October 2008
Genre	Post-hardcore, melodic hardcore
Length	40:00
Label	Shock, Boomtown
The Amity Affliction chronology
High Hopes (2007) Severed Ties (2008) Youngbloods (2010)

Severed Ties is the debut album by Brisbane band, The Amity Affliction. It was released on 4 October 2008 through Boomtown Records. Severed Ties debuted at #26 on the ARIA Top 50 Albums Chart, and #6 on the Australian Artists Albums Chart.

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"I Heart Roberts'" (featuring Helmet Roberts of the Daylight Curse)	3:33
2.	"B.D.K.I.A.F"	3:16
3.	"Snitches Get Stitches" (featuring Lochlan Watt of Ironhide)	3:20
4.	"Do You Party?"	3:01
5.	"Poison Pen Letters"	4:10
6.	"Fruity Lexia"	3:30
7.	"So You Melted..." (featuring Matthew Wright of The Getaway Plan)	2:48
8.	"Jesse Intense" (featuring Michael Crafter of I Killed the Prom Queen/Confession and Matthew Wright of The Getaway Plan)	4:12
9.	"The Blair Snitch Project"	3:41
10.	"Love Is a Battlefield" (Pat Benatar cover)	3:54
11.	"Stairway to Hell" (featuring JJ Peters of I Killed the Prom Queen/Deez Nuts/Grips 'N' Tonic)	4:29
Total length:		40:00

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.
• Track 2 "B.D.K.I.A.F." is an abbreviation for "Big Dick Know It All Fuck", which is an inside joke of the band.
• Track 4 "Do You Party?" is a reference to a joke in the film Hot Rod.
• Track 9 "The Blair Snitch Project" contains a sound sample from the film True Romance in the intro.
• Track 11 "Stairway to Hell" contains a sound sample from the film Hot Rod and Happy Gilmore.