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DECEMBERUNDERGROUND by AFI
DECEMBERUNDERGROUND is an album by AFI, released in 2006. 4 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 63 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Miss Murder”, on 33 lists and voted number one once.
DECEMBERUNDERGROUND, AFI's seventh album (written in all caps, as the band insists), came out on Interscope on June 6, 2006, with Jerry Finn producing. It was the follow-up to Sing the Sorrow, the record that had hauled the Ukiah band out of the punk underground and into the mainstream, and it had a lot to live up to.
By now the lineup was Davey Havok on vocals, Adam Carson on drums, Hunter Burgan on bass and Jade Puget on guitar and keyboards, together since 1998, and the old hardcore fury has been poured into something darker and glossier. There are synths, gothic shadows and big dramatic hooks here, with Havok's voice swooping from croon to shriek. "Miss Murder" is the sharpest blade in the drawer, a strutting, spooky anthem, and "Love Like Winter" and "The Missing Frame" followed it out as singles.
It paid off on every scoreboard: the album entered the Billboard 200 at the very top and went platinum in 2013, while "Miss Murder" ruled the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart, climbed as high as 24 on the Hot 100 and turned up in Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock. Crash Love came next.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from DECEMBERUNDERGROUND on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miss Murder | 33 | #1 | 1 | 2006–2026 | |
| 2 | Love Like Winter | 20 | #17 | – | 2006–2010 | |
| 3 | The Missing Frame | 9 | #29 | – | 2006–2007 | |
| 4 | Rabbits Are Roadkill on rt. 37 | 1 | #459 | – | 2006 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.