10 Incredible 2000s Bands That Are Still Killing It

AFI have been around since the mid 90s, but it wasn’t until the 2000s that they started releasing their seminal material. 2000s The Art of Drowning is one of the finest punk albums of all time and they followed it up with albums such as Sing The Sorrow and Decemberunderground which featured songs that would become staples of emo music. Whether you know the band for emo classics such as Miss Murder, Prelude 12/21 and Girls Not Grey or camped up goth punk songs like Snow Cats or The Days of the Phoenix, you know that AFI are great.

For better or for worse, AFI helped to normalise the theatricality of emo and were one of the few bands that escaped the ridicule put on the scene. Since the 2000s, AFI have released music sparingly with 2013s Burials and 2017s The Blood Album, but with these albums they’ve grown with grace in a way unlike any of their contemporaries. Maybe it helps that they were older than many of the 2000s emo bands, most likely they were just way better.