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The album's second track, "The Lost Souls", was originally titled "The Art of Drowning". [6] " The Despair Factor" features AFI's first notable use of electronic drums. [7] On the song, vocalist Davey Havok states: "My whole life is a dark room... one big dark room," a line spoken by Winona Ryder in the film Beetlejuice (1988). [7]
[81] [82] AFI's first three albums, Answer That and Stay Fashionable (1995), [83] Very Proud of Ya (1996), [81] and Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1997), [84] all have been described as hardcore punk. AFI's fourth album Black Sails in the Sunset and the band's fifth album The Art of Drowning both have been described as horror punk. [80]
AFI's eighth studio album Crash Love was released on September 29, 2009, and Burials was released on October 22, 2013. In late 2016, AFI released a series of teaser videos featuring song clips and backwards audio, eventually revealed to be promotion for AFI (also known as The Blood Album), released on January 20, 2017 via Concord Music Group. [17]
The album's tracks are presented in reverse chronological order from their Nitro Records release dates, beginning with material from The Art of Drowning (2001) and proceeding through the All Hallow's E.P. (1999), Black Sails in the Sunset (1999), Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes (1997), Very Proud of Ya (1996), and Answer That and Stay ...
The Art of Drowning: 2000 "Snow Cats" Davey Havok Jade Puget: AFI: 2017 "Soap-Box Derby" Davey Havok Markus Stopholese Very Proud of Ya: 1996 "So Beneath You" Davey Havok Jade Puget: AFI: 2017 "Still a Stranger" Davey Havok Jade Puget: AFI: 2017 "A Story at Three" Adam Carson Davey Havok Hunter Burgan Jade Puget: The Art of Drowning' 2000 ...
"The Days of the Phoenix" is a song by the American rock band AFI. It was released to radio as the only single from their fifth studio album The Art of Drowning in 2000. On the album's track listing, the song's title is written as "Days of the Phoenix".
[16] Allmusic awarded the album 4 out of 5 stars and wrote: "Emerging in early 2003 with Sing the Sorrow, it's clear the molting process AFI began with Black Sails in Sunset is complete," and concluded that, "Whatever factions of the band's longterm fans might think of their major-label affiliation, Sing the Sorrow represents a coalescing of ...
A maniacally smiling man-devil's face appears on the red-and-black CD label. The inner edge of the album's CD case reveals the hidden message "a fire inside". Behind the CD tray is an achromatic illustration of a man in suit and shorts, illuminated in white, twisting a skeleton key to a huge lock, which has been keeping some dark doorway shut.