AFI’s Jade Puget reunites with Redemption 87 bandmates in new hardcore band on Revelation Records (listen)

Before Jade Puget officially joined AFI as guitarist ahead of 1999’s Black Sails in the Sunset, completing their classic lineup and massively shaping their now-trademark sound, he played in a couple of other hardcore bands, including the youth crew revival band Redemption 87, which took existed from 1995-1999 and took influence from late ’80s Revelation Records bands. Now Jade has reunited with his Redemption 87 bandmates Eric Ozenne (who went on to front The Nerve Agents) and Gary Gutfeld in a new band called Birdlegs, whose debut album is coming out on Revelation this spring.

The band’s lineup is rounded out by Ryan Doria (of Overexposure and Jason Butler’s hardcore band Pressure Cracks), and the first taste of their Visions Beyond The Ape Cave is “Mind in the Margins,” a minute-long song that sounds very inspired by Youth of Today and other Rev / youth crew stuff. However, the label’s announcement reads, “This is not a rehash of the same old ways seeking to resurrect 1987 hardcore practices, this is a relevant fusion of old school hardcore punk with a myriad of edges being pushed in all directions.”

Here’s what Eric Ozenne has to say about the new single:

Frustrated by the destabilizing force of social media and its intentionally addictive program design. The question that the song ‘Mind In the Margins’ asks is ‘do you mind?’ being clueless to what is happening to you when you use social media apps? ‘Do you mind’ that society is being shaped by unscrupulous characters who hold so much power? ‘Do you mind your mind being syphoned and sculpted for profit and experimentation?

Visions Beyond The Ape Cave arrives April 10 via Revelation Records (pre-order). Stream the new song and check out the album artwork and tracklist below.

Tracklist
SIDE A
1. Emergence
2. Clown
3. Devils Own Grip
4. Mind In The Margins
5. Icebox

SIDE B
1. The Twisted Screw Of Now
2. Apricity
3. The Unraveling
4. Visions Beyond The Ape Cave