“Everything ends. And my endings tend to be eternal”: Inside the heart of Davey Havok and AFI’s new chapter
As AFI unveil their new album Bodies, Davey Havok reveals the warring dualities – the dark and the light, the old and the new, the painful endings and the hopeful beginnings – at the heart of their forthcoming release, and what it tells us about himself…
Words: Nick Ruskell
Photos: Jonathan Weiner
Los Angeles is a wild place. It’s everything you want it to be and more, as well as plenty you don’t. When you see it on TV, there’s an element of reality there that can suck you in without ever having been there. Davey Havok remembers it from watching metal videos on MTV, years before discovering for himself that they basically really did yell ‘Welcome to the jungle!’ at you as you got off the bus, wide eyed at what you’ve just stepped into. It’s a city that’s a mess of contradictions that somehow works in a vague sort of harmony; glitz and wealth
Bodies.
The 11th studio effort from the “Miss Murder” rockers will arrive on June 11. It’s the follow-up to 2017’s
AFI, aka
The Blood Album.
Bodies includes the previously released songs “Twisted Tongues” and “Escape from Los Angeles.” Two more tracks, “Looking Tragic” and “Begging for Trouble,” have now dropped as well, along with the record announcement.
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