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2024 redraww (old drawing below)

#fanart #a fire inside #afi #davey havok #miss murder #decemberunderground #art #drawing #procreate

Happy 20 years of Decemberunderground! AFI's 7th studio album was released on June 6th, 2006.

This is the album that introduced me to AFI (one of my favorite bands as a teen), so it holds a special place in my heart. I can't believe it's been 20 years now. What's your favorite track off the album, or favorite memory associated with it?

#AFI #A Fire Inside #AFI band #Decemberunderground #20th anniversary #20 years #2000s albums #emo #screamo #🐇🤍🖤🩶#music #my favorite track to this day is Love Like Winter

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#20 years!!!#this album changed Everything in the life of 14 year old Baph #AFI #decemberunderground #Davey Havok in his peak effeminate era gave me a sexuality crisis in multiple directions #I used Havok as a last name everywhere I could back then #I even bought 2 copies of the CD with my limited money so I could use one booklet as its foldout poster feature & keep the other for lyrics #good times. simpler times

AFI:Decemberunderground

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happy 20 years of decemberunderground

broke my habit for the occasion, and for my love for AFI happy 6/6/(2)6 the hand is ugly but whatever you gotta focus on the good, like this timelapse i threw together

anyways i'm going to go play miss murder until i break a string or get bored

#my art #afi #a fire inside #davey havok #fanart #music #punk rock #emo #2000s emo #how many tags can i add #decemberunderground

Happy 20th anniversary to my manager telling me I wasn't allowed to play Decemberunderground in the store because of the screaming on Kill Caustic and me proceeding to do it anyway on closing shifts when she was gone for the day.

#afi #decemberunderground #du20 #DU release time was weird for me :)#that job wanted me to start the night AFI were in town for a secret show #and i was like ''...i'm... busy''#then go to the show and my manager is there selling pre-orders of the album for the chain lmfao #she was cool though she liked afi too but was like ''no kill caustic will scare the Olds''#idgaf

AFI - Decemberunderground

Does anyone else have memories tied to specific albums? I’m not talking about to what your life was like when you were listening to something, but a specific memory attached to an album or listening to it. I have a memory of picking up AFI’s Decemberunderground in 2006 or 2007, and I opened up the CD to play it in my mom’s car; my parents were surprised by how heavy the second track, “Kill Caustic,” was, because of all the screaming and heavy guitars in that song. It’s not an important memory, or anything like that, but I just remember it, because I never really showed my parents “my music,” kind of because they didn’t like it. I just remember that for some reason, but what I also remember is how good the album was.

I haven’t listened to this album in years, but that’s mainly due to me finding more types of music that I got into, such as metalcore, pop-punk, and things like that. I also thought this album may not have held up, so I’ve been scared to listen to it. I decided to listen to it recently, however, and I also briefly talked about it on my yearly Spooky Season piece, so let’s talk about this album. AFI began as a hardcore punk band that moved into horror punk, and then they made a pivot into emo and post-hardcore. Decemberunderground isn’t their first foray, but it was actually 2003’s Sing The Sorrow. I’ve never heard that album, but I’ve always wanted to.

As for Decemberunderground, that album is very nostalgic to me, and after 20 years, this album has held up pretty well. It’s a bit melodramatic, but it’s fun and diverse. The album runs the gamut between alt-rock, emo, post-punk, goth-rock, and post-hardcore, but it does so in an entertaining way. When I was a kid, there were a lot of songs I wasn’t as into, mainly because they were 80s-influenced, and they weren’t heavy post-hardcore songs, but now I enjoy the post-punk and goth songs quite a bit. Vocalist Davey Havok is a bit of an acquired taste all these years later, because he has such a whiny and nasally voice, I don’t know if I really like it, at least on certain songs, anyway. He sounds fine on some songs, but it can be a bit much on others.

The same goes for the lyrics, too, which can get pretty melodramatic at times. They’re not bad, but the lyrics are the weakest link of this album, along with Davey Havok’s vocals being kind of whiny and annoying. I would recommend this if you want an album that’s kind of spooky, but also has an 80s sound to it in spots. You definitely have to be in the mood for this stuff, but there are a handful of really solid songs. The album does run a bit too long, clocking in at 46 minutes, but it’s not too bad. Decemberunderground is an album that’s held up pretty well, minus a few aspects that prevent me from truly loving it, but it has some solid songs and some catchy hooks that I keep coming back to. Songs like “Ms. Murder,” “Summer Shudder,” and “The Killing Lights” are loads of fun, and those songs alone make the album pretty special.