An influential Northern California punk band whose hardcore origins evolved to include alternative rock, post-punk, emo, and new wave flair, AFI broke into the mainstream in 2000 with the arrival of their fifth studio LP The Art of Drowning. The band remained at the fore of the modern rock scene for the next two decades, releasing a string of chart-topping efforts like Sing the Sorrow (2003), Decemberunderground (2006), and AFI (2017). They continued to take punk music in exciting directions with 2018's The Missing Man EP and 2021's Bodies.