If it feels like AFI are hardened veterans at this point, it's because that's absolutely true; it's easy to forget that Sing the Sorrow , their 2003 breakthrough, was actually their sixth record (this one marks album #10). It's also easy to forget that the band encountered some pretty fierce backlash to Sing the Sorrow from fairweather fans bemoaning the shift from more standard punk fare that occurred over the course of those first five records. That fickle criticism follows them to this day, and at this point it feels like silly, petty shit talk. Consider The Blood Album , the culmination of over two decades of maturation and an album that has echoes of all of AFI's past lives while continuing to offer new ideas. Even fans of their emo/goth commercial zenith may be surprised at the growth here, especially if they hadn't been paying attention during AFI's last couple of album cycles. Often lumped in with all of those eyeliner-and-razors emo upstarts th...
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