History Trivia / AFI

* FollowTheLeader: Their groundbreaking, innovative blend of punk rock and emotive hardcore has led to a legion of imitators-- some, like Music/MyChemicalRomance and Alkaline Trio, went on to develop their own individual voice and sound, while others, like Aiden, didn't.

* RefrainFromAssuming: "Prelude 12/21" is not called "Kiss My Eyes and Lay Me To Sleep".

* CreativeDifferences: Why AFI left Nitro Records and went onto a "mainstream" label. Davey Havok and Dexter Holland of TheOffspring had a falling out over production and rights details, and Nitro ended up putting out an unauthorized compilation of the bands' early records.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Demos of ''Sing The Sorrow'' seem to piece together a far different sounding album than the final product. "The Celluloid Dream" has a far more punk-like vocal with more shouting and heavier drums, and Hunter Burgan singing part of the refrain. "Paper Airplanes(Makeshift Wings)" has a slower, more subdued tempo and a different chorus layout, and TagTeamVocal between Davey and Jade. If the final product was like this, Art Of Drowning would have a sequel, for all intents and purposes.

* Davey Havok was invited to be the new Music/TheMisfits vocalist. However he turned the proposal down, since AFI was his band by that point.
* Davey Havok has said that there are practically two albums' worth of songs recorded for Sing the Sorrow but never released. Several are floating around the net, some were included as bonus tracks for later albums, and a few of the stronger cuts were reworked and rewritten for Crash Love.

* FollowTheLeader: Their groundbreaking, innovative blend of punk rock and emotive hardcore has led to a legion of imitators-- some, like MyChemicalRomance and Alkaline Trio, went on to develop their own individual voice and sound, while others, like Aiden, didn't.

* Davey Havok was invited to be the new TheMisfits vocalist. However he turned the proposal down, since AFI was his band by that point.

** ''Decemberunderground'' may have been the TropeMaker for the more electronic based post-hardcore sound of "screamo" bands in the late 2000s-early 2010s. The use of loud-soft dynamics, dreamlike synthesizers and HarshVocals are all elements used by later bands, some to less successful degrees.

** ''Decemberunderground'' may have been the TropeMaker for the more electronic based post-hardcore sound of "screamo" bands in the late 2000s-early 2010s.