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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]
"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".
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 ...
Answer That and Stay Fashionable was recorded in Hayward, California, at Art of Ears, the studio of Andy Ernst, in 1995. The album was produced by AFI, along with Doug Sangalang, Tim Armstrong and Brett Reed. It was recorded in under a week. [6] All of the tracks except "Open Your Eyes" are copyrighted to Anthems for Insubordinates. [7]
Some critics felt that this direction marked one of the most ambitious albums by AFI, while others felt it was done as a cautious move to appeal to mainstream audiences. Commercially, AFI was the band's most successful domestic album since Decemberunderground, debuting at number 5 on the Billboard 200, with
In the August 2006 edition of Guitar World, Puget states that AFI songs "37mm" and "Love Like Winter" were both originally intended as part of the Blaqk Audio side project. [6] Elements of programming, however, can be found as early as 2000s The Art of Drowning , which featured a drum machine on "The Despair Factor".