AFI - Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… (October 3, 2025) • Page 8

The band's catalogue from Black Sails through Crash Love is a tremendous run. Everything outside of that has been pretty spotty for me

 

A pretty normal and popular take TBH

 

I'm ready to fight everyone whose opinion is different than mine.

 

Was going to complain about no Burials love but I'm just now realizing the song I'm hearing in my bathroom at work is some female singer acoustically covering 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins and now I don't know what I feel about anything.

 

One of the issues I have with Blood as an album is that the vinyl has incorrect sequencing, so my brain is always getting confused about what comes next since I listen in multiple formats.

The Wind That Carries Me Away is one of my favorite closers they've done.

 

may be worth checking to see if you can get a refund

 

I'm a big fan of burials

 

This might be the best song they’ve released in two decades. I’m getting big Ceremony “In The Spirit World Now” vibes.

 

Yes! I said Ceremony too.

 

@kyle have you seen the video of Davey doing straight edge revenge with Ceremony?

 

Ceremony does this sound way better imo

Hope the album changes my mind though!

 

AFI was one of my first favorite bands like ever but I really can't get into anything after Burials despite trying

 

I haven’t. Post it if you got it.

 

Is that Phil from Modern Family handing Davey the mic?

 

Searched the forum cause I coulda swore I said this during a different album cycle … but I’ve always liked AFI the way most people liked MCR. They were my emo-goth gateway band. Like their whole catalog. New album is very new wave 80’s tinged. Enjoying the hell out of.

 

I definitely have rose-colored lenses with my favorite bands, because I have tried to get into the whole post-punk genre forever and it never clicked except for some brief periods, but when AFI does it I'm all about it.

 

I think, out of my most formative bands, they’re the ones with which I cherry pick their discography the most.

I got into them with December and STS like many but I still struggle with their earlier material. The few songs they still play are classics, but the albums as a whole don’t really do anything for me despite trying many times over the years.

 

I bought the 2004 retrospective on a whim. I think I'd heard people saying how much they were into AFI. I'd somehow not heard anything from them (or so I thought. I'd heard all the STS singles out and didn't care for them/didn't put together that they were AFI).

The moment The Lost Souls played, my mind was absolutely blown. I couldn't get enough of them. I listened to nothing but AFI and Misfits related projects for practically the whole year. I was absolutely obsessed. Like someone else said, they were one of my first favorite bands ever ever ever.

Over the next two years, I got over my "they sold out" phase and realized STS was a masterpiece and the rest is history. They've held a very special place in my heart ever since, even when certain albums didn't click.

 

I remember seeing the Silver and Cold video on Fuse and that was that

 

Makes so happy to hear. I really enjoy Bodies. What do you think of that album?

 

Where should I start if I've never really listened to this band because Behind the Clock is DOING IT for me

 

Not sure if there is any answer beside Sing the Sorrow.

 

Black Sails in the Sunset and go forward from there and then revisit their three earlier albums.