AFI

For more than three decades, AFI has been a band in a constant state of reinvention. No album they’ve released has sounded much like the one before it, sometimes dramatically so. The band has never gotten too comfortable in one genre or allowed themselves to coast on any successes. It’s an approach that has regularly challenged their audience, as their sonic identity has shifted in wild, unexpected directions every few years. But on their twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun, the members of AFI managed to surprise even themselves.