http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4538&rws=%2Fafi%2Fmusic-videos.rssAFI top the short list of modern-day hardcore saviors. After starting out in the early '90s as another bouncy, Northern California pop-punk band, they released <i>Black Sails in the Sunset</i> in 1999, their fourth full-length and a substantial darkening of their sound. Later albums, like the platinum-selling <i>Sing the Sorrow</i> and 2006's <i>Decemberunderground</i>, are ambitious, Goth-punk tours de force, combining pummeling rhythms, jarring guitar and tortured vocals with defiantly complex arrangements. Part of a growing prog-punk movement that includes Coheed and Cambria, Angels and Airwaves and Avenged Sevenfold, AFI is worshipped by a black-clad fanbase known as the "the Despair Faction," which has crowned them kings of the Warped Tour nation. - Jonathan ZwickelPop Punken720Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:29:01 -0800 http://static.realone.com/rotw/images/logo_rhapsody_113x22.gif http://www.rhapsody.com/goto?rcid=art.4538&rws=%2Fafi%2Fmusic-videos.rss AFI top the short list of modern-day hardcore saviors. After starting out in the early '90s as another bouncy, Northern California pop-punk band, they released <i>Black Sails in the Sunset</i> in 1999, their fourth full-length and a substantial darkening of their sound. Later albums, like the platinum-selling <i>Sing the Sorrow</i> and 2006's <i>Decemberunderground</i>, are ambitious, Goth-punk tours de force, combining pummeling rhythms, jarring guitar and tortured vocals with defiantly complex arrangements. Part of a growing prog-punk movement that includes Coheed and Cambria, Angels and Airwaves and Avenged Sevenfold, AFI is worshipped by a black-clad fanbase known as the "the Despair Faction," which has crowned them kings of the Warped Tour nation. - Jonathan Zwickel