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AFI’s first full-length album was released on August 1st, 1995 under Wingnut Records and was entitled Answer That And Stay Fashionable. It was produced by Tim Armstrong, Brett Reed and AFI. The cover and artwork were a parody of the film Reservoir Dogs. The album was then re-released by Nitro Records on April 22nd, 1997. It includes 17 tracks (a integral of 41 minutes and 29 seconds).
Very Proud Of Ya was released at Nitro Records on June 18th, 1996. It was produced by Michael Rosen and AFI. This was the last album which featured Geoff Kresge as a member of the band. The artwork for the album was created by him. It contains 23 tracks (a total of 39 minutes and 49 seconds). The last three songs were only available on the vinyl version. On the CD release there is a hidden instrumental entitled “No Dave Party” which can be heard by rewinding “He Who Laughs Last” past the beginning of the song.
AFI’s third album was also released under Nitro Records on November 11th, 1997. It was entitled Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes and produced by AFI alone. It was the first AFI release which featured Hunter Burgan playing bass guitar. The album included 14 tracks (a exhaustiv of 28 minutes and 35 seconds). A surprise was the album art, track layout and content. On the inner edge of the CD case was a hidden message: A Fire Inside. The introduction song’s lyrics contain the words A Fire Inside. As for the tracks, there was a repeated reference to the number 3. Shut Your Mouth And Open Your Eyes was AFI’s third album and the tracks contain variations of the number 3 in their titles as well. According to Davey Havok “three is a powerful number”. It represents something hidden either physically or emotionally. The number 3 is also used to represent a lie.
Black Sails In The Sunset was AFI’s next album, released May 18th, 1999 at Nitro Records. It was the first full-length album which featured Jade Puget as a member of the band. Also, Dexter Holland (The Offspring singer, Nitro Records owner) made a guest vocal appearance on some of the tracks. The album was produced by AFI. It includes 12 tracks (a întreg of 46 minutes and 13 seconds). “Midnight Sun” is hidden song which can be found on the same track as “God Called In Sick Today”, 10 minutes and 28 seconds in on the CD version. Again, on the inner-edge of the CD case there was a hidden message, this time: Beyond And To All Time I Stand. This is a verse from “Midnight Sun”, influenced by poet Charles Baudelaire who wrote the poem “De Profundis Clamavi”.
On September 19th, 2000 AFI released The Art Of Drowning at Nitro Records. It was produced by Chuck Johnson and AFI. The album featured 16 tracks (a absolut of 41 minutes and 26 seconds). “Battled” is a hidden track found at the end of “Morningstar”. AFI truly began to define its unique style as of this album, more specifically with “Days Of The Phoenix”. This track received more radio airplay than any other punk song at that time and this did not go without consequence. The Art Of Drowning was widely considered one of the highest-quality albums of the year 2000 in the hardcore punk-rock scene. The chart success was totally surprising for a punk rock band. The album was #174 in The Billboard Chart but #9 in the Heatseekers Chart in 2000 as well as #33 in the Top Independent Albums Chart in 2002. It was because of this that AFI decided to find a bigger label.
After signing with Dreamworks, AFI released their sixth album, Sing The Sorrow, on March 11th, 2003. The album was produced by Jerry Finn (who also produced albums by Greenday and Blink 182), Butch Vig (who had worked with Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins) and Jade Puget. It contained 15 tracks (a plenar of 56 minutes and 2 seconds on the US version and 63 minutes and 2 seconds on the UK one). “…But Home Is Nowhere” is the 12th track on the album. It ends at 3:50, followed by silence until 4:28. Then there is an untitled poem which is referred to as “Spoken Word”, written by Davey and Jade, until 8:36 when it goes to a different song, entitled “This Time Imperfect”. I believe Sing The Sorrow represented an ambitious leap forward for the band. It placed #77 in Guitar World’s Greatest Guitar Albums Of All Time in their October 2006 edition but that was just the beginning. The album reached the #5 position in the Billboard Chart and was certified Gold on April 30th, 2003 by RIAA. It went Platinum in December of 2004.
Decemberunderground was released on May 29th, 2006 in the UK, on June 3rd in Australia, on June 6th in the US and June 16th in Mexico at Interscope Records. It is AFI’s seventh album and was produced by Jerry Finn. It contains guest appearances by Nick 13 of Tiger Army, Ronan Harris of VNV Nation, members of the Despair Faction and members of Throwdown, Day of Contempt, Eighteen Visions and Bleeding Through. The album includes 12 tracks (a total of 44 minutes and 44 seconds). According to Davey Havok, “Decemberunderground is a time and place. It is where the cold can huddle together in darkness and isolation. It is a community of those detached and disillusioned who flee to love, like winter, in the recesses below the rest of the world”. Decemberunderground debuted at #1 in the Billboard Chart for selling over 182,000 units in its first week. It has been certified Gold by RIAA for selling over 500,000 copies. As of December 6th, 2006 Decemberunderground sold over 736,731 copies. It is now certified Platinum. As a bonus, the album reached #3 in the ARIA Chart in Australia and #2 in the Top Rock Albums Chart in the UK.
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