AFI

The Art Of Drowning

While they have always been more at home in the punk and, later, emo scenes, there was always something about AFI that resonated with metalheads in the early 2000s, and never more so than on their fifth album, The Art Of Drowning. Furthering the huge strides from snotty hardcore into anthemic gothic rock that saw them rise out of the underground with Black Sails In The Sunset, it showed a band reaching the peak of their powers. The Days Of The Phoenix would become one of 2000’s definitive anthems, while the urgent likes of The Lost Souls and Wester offered gothpunk perfection.

LISTEN TO: The Lost Souls