{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}}{{Infobox album | name = A Fire Inside EP | type = ep | artist = AFI | cover = AFI - A Fire Inside EP cover.jpg | released = {{Start date|1998|08|14}}<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20030207092815/http://www.afireinside.net:80/music/index_2.php</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmqtKO6ZZjw&t=1020s</ref> | studio = Art of Ears, Hayward, California | genre = Hardcore punk,<ref name="Punknews"/> horror punk<ref>{{cite web |last1=Sacher |first1=Andrew |title=AFI album guide - the essentials, the underrated & more |url=https://www.brooklynvegan.com/afi-album-guide-the-essentials-the-underrated-more/ |website=Brooklyn Vegan |access-date=15 September 2025}}</ref> | length = 9:32 | label = Adeline | producer = AFI | prev_title = Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes | prev_year = 1997 | next_title = Black Sails EP | next_year = 1999 }} {{Album ratings | rev2 = Punknews.org | rev2score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}<ref name="Punknews">{{cite web|author=Shortychord|title=A Fire Inside (1998)|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/1248/afi-a-fire-inside|publisher=Punknews.org|date=September 20, 2002|accessdate=July 31, 2017}}</ref> | rev3 = ''The Rolling Stone Album Guide'' | rev3score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}<ref>{{Cite book |editor-last1=Brackett |editor-first1=Nathan |editor-link1=Nathan Brackett |editor-last2=Hoard |editor-first2=Christian |editor-link2=Christian Hoard |title=The New Rolling Stone Album Guide |year=2004 |location=New York |publisher=Fireside Books |isbn=0-7432-0169-8 |edition=4th |page=10}}</ref> }}
'''''A Fire Inside EP''''' is an extended play by American rock band AFI. It was released on August 14, 1998, through Adeline Records. The EP is titled after the band's full moniker, first revealed with their previous album, ''Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes''. The release includes two original songs and two covers.<ref name="Punknews" /> It is the first release to mention Hunter Burgan as a permanent member, and the last to feature founding guitarist Mark Stopholese.
In November 2010, Adeline Records released a special-edition pressing on purple vinyl, limited to 500 copies.
== Track listing == {{Track listing | all_writing = AFI, except where noted | title1 = 3½ | length1 = 2:22 | title2 = Over Exposure | length2 = 2:03 | title3 = The Hanging Garden | note3 = The Cure cover | writer3 = {{hlist|R. Smith|Gallup|Tolhurst}} | length3 = 4:21 | title4 = Demonomania | note4 = Misfits cover | writer4 = Glenn Danzig | length4 = 0:46 }}
== Personnel == Credits adapted from liner notes.<ref>{{Cite AV media notes|title=A Fire Inside EP|others=AFI|year=1998|type=Liner notes|publisher=Adeline Records|id=AR002}}</ref>
* AFI – producer * Joe Brook – band photos * Hunter Burgan – bass * Adam Carson – drums * Andy Earnst – recording, mixing * Tedd Francis – lyric art * Davey Havok – vocals * John Joh – re-design {{small|(2003 re-release)}} * Markus Stopholese – guitar * Luke Ogden – fire photo * Jamie Reilly – layout * Jim Thiebaud – layout
;Studios * Recorded at The Art of Ears, Hayward, CA * Mastered at Oceanview Digital Mastering, LA, CA
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