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5. AFI – Sing The Sorrow (2003)

As the Californian rockers came of age in 2003, Vig took up residence at LA's Cello Studios to bottle their new-found maturity. It was an experience he remembers as "a whole new ball game."

Butch Vig says:

"I fell in love with AFI when I saw them live, and Adam Carson and I bonded early on. He wanted to make an ambitious-sounding record. On their earlier records, the drums are kind of lo-fi , and AFI were getting more ambitious in terms of their writing.

"We never used any click tracks – I'd just start a click to give him [Adam Carson] a reference," Butch Vig

"We never used any click tracks – I'd just start a click to give him a reference, then take it out of the mix so he could play dynamically the way he wanted. I'm really proud of the way that record sounds – it has a natural ebb and flow."

"Their music has intense dynamics and that's one of the things we really captured."