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AFI - Decemberunderground
| AbsolutePunk | | Over the course of the past decade, AFI has released 5 full length albums on indie label Nitro, signed to a major, reached platinum status with major label debut, headlined numerous Warped Tours, toured around the world, and is held dear by thousands and thousands of rabid fans. With a resume like that, one would think that any band would be content with that, but not AFI....full text |
| | Static Multimedia | | It’s been three years since AFI (A Fire Inside) have released new material. Their major label debut, Sing For the Sorrow (for the defunct DreamWorks Records, now folded into Interscope) was handled by renowned producers Butch Vig (Garbage, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins) and Jerry Finn (Green Day, Rancid). The resumes of both Vig and Finn spoke volumes for the sound found within the encoding on Sorrow. Mixing the goth-space rock of Vig’s work with the Pumpkins and the earnest punk spirit of Finn‘s with Rancid, AFI merged styles and shot to success on the backs of their hard work, originality and energy. AFI showed distinction in a field mired with sameness and paved the way for the success of other forward-thinking punk rockers such as My Chemical Romance....full text |
| | Entertainment Weekly | | A decade ago, the Cali bred AFI was a typical bark-and-lunge hardcore band, but by album No. 4 (1999's Black Sails in the Sunset), they'd perfected an eerie, metal-edged Cure sound. Their seventh effort, DECEMBERUNDERGROUND is the most melodically acute distillation of that style yet. Despite the relentlessly abject lyrics, massively hooky tracks like ''Love Like Winter'' have enough arena-rock appeal to register as instant classics. On the downside: Unless you're really young and bummed, it's difficult to fully empathize with such exquisitely crafted misery....full text |
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