Alternative Press

AFI’s debut on Nitro Records captures the Los Angeles post-hardcore outfit channeling raw aggression and angular guitars through a distinctly pop-punk lens. Alternative Press crystallizes the band’s early aesthetic—jagged riffs, frenetic drumming, and Davey Havok’s piercing vocals—before they’d pivot toward goth-influenced experimentation. This is AFI at their most immediate and unpolished, a snapshot of late-90s Nitro Records' knack for signing bands caught between punk’s DIY ethos and mainstream accessibility.