Severed Ties is the debut studio album by Australian post-hardcore band the Amity Affliction.

"Poison Pen Letters" was re-recorded for Severed Ties, it originally appeared on the demo compilation, State of Affairs – a collection of tracks by hardcore bands from the five mainland states of Australia.

Three tracks contained samples from feature films, however due to copyright restrictions, the then-active label of Boomtown was forced to remove them.

The first few thousand copies printed of the album retained the samples: "I Heart Roberts'" contains one from the film, Hot Rod, "The Blair Snitch Project" had a sample from True Romance in its intro, and "Stairway to Hell" contains sound samples from Hot Rod and Happy Gilmore.

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