A.F.I

Art Of Drowning

Wow.

Review Score:

(10/10)
This is it. The best CD created by anyone anywhere ever. It's kinda hard to wtite a review for an album that pretty much became your bible after the first time you listened to it, but i'll do my best. I started listening to AFI in the summer of 2000 when i bought the All Hallows E.P.. Being a huge Misfits fan, i bought that cd for the cover of Halloween, but that four song cd ended up changing my life. I picked up The Art Of Drowning the day it came out and it blew me away. I never thought one band could put together everything i like about music and roll it all up into 15 incredible songs. All the dark, mysterious, gloomy, halloween-ish things i could ever think of come to mind when listening to this cd. No one can write or sing like Davey Havok, his lyrics are so haunting and poetic it will give you chills. It's hard to pick the best tracks off of here because they're all great in their own way.
Wester, Of Greeting And Goodbyes, The Lost Souls, Days Of The Phoenix, The Despair Factor, Sacrifice Theory, and A Story At Three are all fast paced, dark, chilling, melodic songs that you can listen to a thousand times (especially if you like the Misfits and Samhain) without them losing their edge. Ever And A Day, 6 To 8, and Morningstar are slower, more somber and mysterious tracks, and the remaining songs (The Nephilim, Smile, Catch A Hot One, and the hidden track Battled) are just great, heavy songs that can be appreciated by just about anyone who likes punk or metal. All in all this is the best CD I've ever heard. If you don't already own it i recommend that you go out and buy it this second. And if you're still having doubts, the booklet alone is worth the fifteen bucks, with a bunch of great scary pictures drawn by Alan Forbes.

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