Sidelined from their recent tour due to medical issues, AFI has begun writing for their seventh full length, the followup to Sing The Sorrow. Guitarist Jade Puget spoke with MTV news about the writing process, "There's always pressure… Regardless of how many copies Sing the Sorrow sold, we're always under pressure to make our new record better than the last one… So there's that pressure, but as far as external pressure, where we feel like we have to perform a certain way in order to sell a certain amount of copies … If you start writing from that perspective, that's really the downfall; 'This song needs to be the first single, so this part needs to sound like this or else it won't get played.' You just have to write what you hope will sound good, and hope that it performs well, too."

The band plans to record towards the end of the summer, however no producer has been announced yet. MTV is reporting the release will carry the Interscope label following the dissolution of Dreamworks.