Holy shit, I remember seeing these guys at warped tour In Toronto after they released black sails... I went to the merch table and I was holding a copy of shut your mouth in my hands, ready to buy. Adam was working the table, he told me, ‘you want this album instead, trust me’. He handed me a copy of black sails, I gave him my cash, and to this day, still one of my favourite albums...

I think Black Sails was a piece of artistic expression separate in time and space musically from any other style that ever was or will be just like it.. truly special.

This and the art of drowning were amazing albums. They really captured me as a youth.

How have we never gotten coverage like this of these albums. They are legitimately legendary punk albums.

The most underrated album in the last 25 years, no one ever sounded like that before and has since.

God called in sick is my favorite song of AFI

Black Sails in the Sunset, The Art of Drowning and Sing The Sorrow are my absolute favorite albums from this band. So hard to pick a personal favorite of the 3 their all equally amazing to me.

Black Sails is one of my favorite albums of all time. I love the guitar melodies and Daveys vocals. AFI is one of my favorite bands of all time, and I love both their older and their newer stuff, but I think Black Sails is one of their highlights.

black sails in the sunset is such a masterpiece, one of my top 5 favorite albums of all time. in my humble opinion it is definitely their greatest album!

Seeing Havok smiling and laughing is such a damn relief after 2013's utter crisis. I love it.

Felt the same about the goth term. This band had no description in my eyes. They are one of a kind.

I need to find someone that looks at me the way Jade and Davey look at each other when recounting memories here. :)

I love how honest Jade is at the end, about labels. There are very few great, highly successful bands that don't bristle when asked about whether they are such-and-such (sub-(sub-))genre or not. I think it's because labeling things is something that external parties do. And it's necessary, I think, even if it gets ridiculous sometimes. People are never ever going to _not_ label the things they like and don't like. But when you are the one _creating_ what's being labeled, then obviously you're not going to want to accept it, nor should you.

i still have those cd's i had them on play 24/7 on my old cdplayer as a kid , much love thanks for everything AFI

This is an awesome segment. I hope there are other artists who are willing to do this. It would be awesome to see a band with a huge discography doing this. Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying these videos though.

It's been 20 years and this album still connects me with a time in my life that I had thought was almost entirely negative and counterproductive and made no sense, but now can be positive. It was healing to hear this interview.

I learned to drop in on the Consolidated Skatebaord half pipe while listening to this album and at the same time, working at a restaurant with Mark, the ex-guitar player for A.F.I. The band was ever present in our beach skate town of Santa Cruz. So many shows and good times. And as they alluded, the needed to get rid of Mark to bring some melody into the music. But I think without Mark, they got lost in melody after this album and were never as good again. It is crazy how the stars align to make one great album.

Great story. This has always been one of my favorite albums ever. You guys are so amazing. I love AFI!

God Called in Sick will forever and always be one of my most favorite songs of all time. THANK you for making that one.

Does Adam Carson ever age?

Oh goodness. "Clavet" legit made me bust out in hearty laughter. Jade temporarily squatting in Davey's old room turned out to be a good thing. It's lovely to hear all four members talk about their progress since the early days. They never forgot their humble roots.

Davey is a great orator, I particularly like listening to him do interviews

I knew who afi was and saw them on warped tour but my first album my brother and I bought was sing the sorrow when I deployed in 2004 to Iraq I had my family send me black sails album. When myself and the rest of the marines returned from fallujah in January of the next year afi had more fans...y’all keep rawkin

I was 20 back in 2000, working at a ins company and we could listen to music while we worked. I was into the harder rap and harder rock, death metal and hardcore at the time so my good friend let me listen to The Art of Drowning cuz he knew I liked similar punk/hardcore… i remember song after song being so well put together and really good from start to finish.Needless to say I was a huge fan ever since.. black sails is when you could def hear the start of their sound for yrs.. then starting with Sing the Sorrow you could see bits of where they wanted to go with the sound.. Decemberunderground is my fav album then Sing the Sorrow.. the sound kept evolving and the albums wer great… it’s a hard thing to keep tweaking the sound and it pay off each time, but AFI definitely did it. Lovem

I still listen to this album. Work of art is an understatement. Shoutout to The Nerve Agents too!

Very Proud Of Ya was their best album to me. That’s the one that got me hooked on them.

I am so glad you guys are no longer broke. I love your music. I like you as people as well

Hunter may actually be a vampire.

No sé si es el mejor, pero sin duda es mi favorito. Lo sigo escuchando y me sigue volando la cabeza.

sooo glad "they put the melody in"!LOVE AFI!

Awesome. Thanks for this.

Black Sails is my favorite AFI album. It just seemed to hit the right note and I immediately fell in love with it.

that album saved my life! literally... it hols so much more to me than just music!

none of my friends got it back in the day. i still think it's a great album, and still enjoy what AFI are doing today

Jade man, you influenced me on guitar more than you were ever influenced on guitar. If that makes sense. Maleus ftw.

I love AFI , fan for life

I LOOOOOOVE this interview!! They're so cute!! Can't even imagine what they were like younger😍😍... congrats to them.

The Prayer Position!

One thing I remember from seeing them live in 2000 was how fucking tall Adam Carson is in real life

Love these guys

You guys lived with The Nerve Agents? That makes so much sense! AWESOME!

So interesting to hear. I remember this album had such an influence on me as a new guitarist, and learning God Called In Sick Today.

I love them so much such a once in a lifetime band

This was the first album by AFI that I was old enough to get into. I was still really young when it came out, but I got into punk pretty young. Black Sails showed me how diverse punk music could be and what incorporating diverse elements into a band’s sound could do for a band. Black Sails, All Hollows, Art of Drowning, Sing the Sorrow and Decemberunderground defined huge chunks of my adolescence. I’ll always feel a sense of gratitude towards AFI for all that they gave my friends and I. Thanks boys!

2nd favorite album of theirs next to the art of drowning which is one of my favorite albums of all time of any band or genre

I feel so lucky to have stumbled in AFI at the Paris theatre in Portland. Shut your mouth open your eyes I think with the casualties. I remember being pissed when I the fourth song on black sails came on and it was slow. Lol. Oh what it would become. Watching the transition over the following years as I’m getting older and the music was getting more hot topic… I hope they’re having fun and making money. Huge part of my adolescence

Best AFI album ever! Please do a UK tour with just this album or just the nitro records years!!!

Someone needs to interview Mark bout his days in the band.

Very proud of ya is my idea of afi.

It was kismet. I’m so thankful for AFI, I couldn’t imagine my life without this band!!!!!!!!!!!

Jade's right; I've literally never heard a band respond to 'genre' labels positively, ever, like no band wants to be put in a box (which makes sense) but I mean, genres have to come from somewhere, right?

Good interview...dicussion...insight

Davey looking like the hot topic version of daniel levy. Their best album. I stopped caring about them after art of drowning but I still listen to black sails all the time as well as the all hallows ep art of drowning and the son of Sam album. Basically all the stuff from daveys misfits/samhain phase

I like their progression and sound over the years..

this was there best album

Holy shit, I didn't even recognize Davey with the beard

Love this band. All their albums-😈

adams body language.

Very Proud of ya🤘

Love the Nerve Agents being referenced, what an incredible band.

I have been listening to you all for sooo long. My kid is 28 now and she was so little when I discovered you guys 😮 you still look like 20 year olds. So do I. Better than the Golden girls generation 😅

lol what's that camera angle at 1:05?? kept on it for way too long.

Anyone else hear that high pitched feedback?

I remember buying this album when I was teenager with my pocket money. Best money spent.

I love this album and I love these friends

I am thankful for god called in sick today. it is absolutely my favorite

Asking for it > a fire inside.. But both are good. Davey is criminally underrated as a singer and even more so as a writer. As a teen I would read lyrics to afi while listening to their albums and had a thesaurus in my right hand lol

that was my favorite record hands down.

I miss the Nerve Agents...😞

Answer That And Stay Fashionable was what AFI was to me, but truly appreciate this album.

Black Sails is hands down their best album

I love this. Black Sails is in my top 3 favorite albums. I will say though, right when I'm getting really annoyed with the subtitles, it said "fishes of mercy" and now I'm dying laughing 🤣🤣🤣

I miss black sails and art of drowning AFI. Their the band that really got me into punk rock. I was listening to like Korn, limp bizkit, silverchair, 80’s rock, and the offspring. I heard AFI and everything changed for me. I wouldn’t really call black sails goth punk. I always looked at it as hardcore punk

AFI will always be a hardcore punk band to me..maybe am in denial, you can hear it in the way they write songs. Bay area hxc

AFI was playing the Glass House venue in Pomona, California with Sick of it All the early 2000's, can't remember the exact year that I saw this show but this is a true story. Shortly after AFI took the stage, some idiot decided to take a fire extinguisher and shoot it all over the place while thrashing around the mosh pit/stage area. Smoke filled the entire small venue and I will never forget what Davey Havok said. He yelled, in a very nasally high pitched voice: THANKS A LOT DICKHEAD! NOW I CAN'T BREEEEEEEEEEATHE! AFI then left the stage, and the show was postponed for at least 45 minutes while the smoke cleared, and the guy who set off the smoke got punched and kicked for screwing up the show. I am not sure if the show actually got to finish as I left after waiting 45 minutes, but that was hilarious to hear Davey Havok being so pissed off.

This is a band without a genre tag. They are sort of like Siouxsie And The Banshees, started out punk but matured into something brighter and more diverse.

My favorite afi album ❤

Favorite album of all time.

Total immortal

That album has been in my playlist since middle school i think

Remember when Davey was jacked?

my fave album

Well said....Epic....

That’s right and we missed that AFI. You should still play some oldies though...

Jade just cracks me up

Motorhead got called Heavy Metal.. Speed Metal.. Thrash.. Punk.. Lemmy classified Motorhead as rOcK 'n rOlL .. 😀🎸 He would say "We're Motorhead.. We play Rock And Roll!" And the show would begin! .. 😎 AFI get labeled many things.. Just go listen and rOcK out and forget the labels.. 😀👍

black sails, the art of drowning, and half of sing the sorrow and shut your mouth comprise the greatest back to back to back albums of all time. AFI is a once in a generation band.

Black Sails is my favorite AFI album. AFI was at their best with this album and the art of drowning. You can definitely hear the changes when sing the sorrow came out and it was after that is when I didn't really listen to their newer material. I just didn't care for where they were taking their music, but it's not bad music, in my opinion, just not my taste.

Love Afi

They'll never top that 5 year period of 98-03, but I wish they'd try. It's funny, I always dismissed people during the STS and DU era who said they had lost it. But now, I dunno, they seem more interested in being a heavier Cure tribute act than the good stuff. Would really like them to do 20 year anni shows for Black Sails and TAoD, but it's obvious they've long since grown tired of what made them great.

Forgive me if I'm wrong.. but is that not The Offspring on the couch at 4:40 ?

The Clavet. Awesome.

Damn Davey just referenced The Nerve Agents. Completely forgot about them. One of the heaviest Punk bands. Havok even appeared on a few songs with them.

6:46 I was waiting for this to happen. It was bothering me so much.

The whole "goth" term was something everyone else starting calling a whole group of people. When I was young (in the 80s), my mom would even ask me to classify myself and I refused. It's not just a band thing or artist thing; the "goth" community is an open group of people who are kind, intelligent misfits. We are the hippies of our day.

For its 20th anniversary they should have toured this year playing the whole album start to finish

Black Sails, All Hallows EP, and Art of Drowning were AFI at their peak, IMO.

Their best album.

My fave song on Black Sails is Malleus Maleficarum, still is of all time.

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