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  • April 20, 2003

    Despairing with AFI

    Eyeliner and a cult of teens have put the Bay Area punks in the big time

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    Crash Love

    On 2006's platinum-selling Decemberunderground, this Bay Area quartet mixed dance music and hair metal with their theatrically gloomy punk. This follow-up is more streamlined — but "streamlined" here means spidery guitars and wailed choruses, plus song titles like "Darling, I Want to...

    2009 RS: 3of 5 Stars

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Biography

By the time of the release of their major label debut, Sing the Sorrow, A.F.I. had transformed themselves from lightning- fast hardcore- punk torchbearers to scary goth- metal freakazoids on a mission to gather up an army of alienated youth. It's clear from the opening minutes of that album?where the music lurches to a sludgy crawl more than a couple times?that A.F.I. are on to something new,...

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