Most of the stuff on there is still pretty good. There's Rob Zombie, Killswitch Engage and Pantera, there's Coal Chamber, Biohazard and Monster Magnet, and then there's AFI.
Back then, I used to love Califonian goth punks A Fire Inside, better known as AFI. Davey Havok's soaring, dark vocal was chilling in an excited kind of way, and as a then-aspiring bass player, Hunter Burgan's bass lines were the kind of thing I just had to know how to play.
At the time, there was no better song to explain just why I loved this band so much than Days of the Phoenix, a memorable and tremendously exciting track which sounded so completely different to much of what was on offer back then.
I'd listen to this track, and much of the album from which it came, The Art of Drowning, endlessly for just about as long as I can remember, until suddenly, for no reason that I can really recall, I didn't listen to them anymore.
I never really forgot about that track, and when I was first putting that playlist together it was one of the first songs I went to, and yet now I hardly listen to it. Sure, I still it occasionally, but not as often as I tend to skip it for something else.
I've no idea why I'm not as fond of Days of the Phoenix any more, and can only surmise that yes, I've out grown it.
That's not to say it's a bad song though, check it out below and please, enjoy.
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