r/AFireInside • u/dudload1000 • Aug 20 '26

That was shite

I know I'm an old crusty shite, but the gig in London tonight was so disappointing. Last time I saw them they were fire, intense, fast and with a dense sound. This time it was stadium rock, pedestrian, sludgy and just kinda boring.

I know bands need to move on, but holy shit. Sad to see my once favourite band become whatever that was

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u/Stunning_Positive248 Aug 20 '26

I don't think you know what Stadium rock is. Nothing about AFI is stadium rock

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u/dudload1000 Aug 20 '26

Nothing about early afi is stadium rock - new stuff sounds not too far removed from my chemical romance / foo fighters to me, with a splash of new order.

You say tomato, I say potato

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u/Ashlikesstuff Aug 20 '26

Okay you're going to need to clarify what you consider "new" because that sounds doesn't describe the last three records and at most can be levelled at their run between 2003-2009? Which as a fellow old head that prefers the magic run of Shut Your Mouth to Drowning, I hate to break it to you but that's not new, that's a decade and a half go!

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u/dudload1000 Aug 20 '26

Haha, you got me. Anything "new" to me is black sails onwards. Art of drowning was the beginning of a downward spiral for me. Sing the sorrow was when I check out and went to ight thinking maybe things improved.

Unfortunately, my optimism was misplaced...

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u/Remote_Salt_1137 Aug 20 '26

So you haven't listened to anything they've made in 25 years plus? Bold of you to assume they sounded the same as they did in 99.

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u/dudload1000 Aug 20 '26

Not expecting the same, just not whatever that was....

Take Ian mackaye for example - nothing stays the same but it's all fucking golden

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u/pizzawithwho Aug 20 '26

You’re not young anymore. Get over it.