The Art Of Drowning Ballad Shortly after the release of

Shortly after the release of Teenage Hate

Never has the recounting of atrocity been so seductively pitched

unfeeling vectors of a disenchanted world and

with the support of a sympathetic band

Radiohead's The Bends builds on the three-guitar attack of their previous album

The Art Of Drowning Ballad Shortly after the release ofPunk rawkers AFI exude another powerful disposition on their fifth album, The Art of Drowning. Issued on Dexter Holland's Nitro Records, AFI's quick and haughty, spiraling guitar riffs and crashing percussion make for another mishmash for single fisted anthems for punk revivalists and enigmatic pop kids raging against the machine. Nothing short of Pennywise, D Generation, and Powerman 5000, AFI is rowdy with their old school inspired rants like "Ever