r/AFireInside

In the fall of 2005, a dear friend of mine introduced me to AFI and from the first note I heard, my life has been forever changed. I have never loved anything as much as I do AFI, outside of my children. I followed the Church of Havok for a couple of years and still believe in the last of the commandments of the Church. Needless to say, I was moved. Shook to my core at how a band could be so uplifting and such a life changer. I’ve seen the twice in concert and I even got into a fight at a club because some drunk idiot began heckling me saying Modest Mouse was leaps and bounds better lyrically than AFI. I took obscene offense and hit the guy with a beer bottle. Juvenile yes and embarrassing but I couldn’t tolerate such disrespect lol. My cousin’s husband and I are musical soulmates and he understands my feelings about AFI and he is the one that broke the news to me about their new album. He told me he hated to do this to me bc he knew how I would feel about it. He said “listen to it with a dump truck load of salt. It’s nothing you’re going to be happy about.” And he was right. I listened to it with an upset stomach and jaw slack. What has happened? Why? Why did they feel this was the best direction to go in? I am broken-hearted to say the least. Devastated and utterly confused. I remember sitting at my laptop when I first heard Crash Love waiting for Davey’s angelical screams and they never came. That hurt but I fell in love even more with them bc just lyrically they were still my AFI. But listening to Silver Bleeds the Black Sun was physically painful. I feel awful about disliking it to the degree that I do. I feel I am being very disrespectful and have been a hesitant to even voice anything about it. But I do want to know can anyone shed some light on this direction they have taken and why and what are people’s opinion on it? I don’t understand!

So I’ve been an AFI fan since the late ‘90s, but my discography fandom ended at Sing the Sorrow for like 20 years. I decided to download a whole bunch of the records around a year ago and just play the whole mix while working. My good golly!!!! There are SO many songs that I love, but I want to specifically call out Dumb Kids from the Blood Album (my least faves of the downloads), and say how much I LOVE that song!!!

Peeps, I LOVE this band so much! Saw them at The Sylvee in Madison at the beginning of their tour, and going to see them at The Rave in October in Milwaukee. Would love to give a solid high five to other fans if they’ll be there!

I might be making this up but does anyone know the photo I’m referencing? It’s like a grainy photo of at least Adam and Davey wearing costumes in front of a house maybe? I feel like Adam is dressed as a mummy? Davey as The Crow?

Hi everyone.

I noticed that the upcoming DU anniversary vinyl has a version containing a new track, "Wolf and The Lamb (Demo)".

Do we know anything about this song? First time I've heard of it and I was surprised there wasn't a thread already that I could find.

Can someone please explain this album to me. I LOVE AFI but I just can’t seem to get into this one..

First of all, there is no “we.” He’s detached from me completely.