""What if I died right here in front of you?" Davey Havok says, his eyes beaming with childlike joy. "Wouldn't that be good? That would make for a better piece. Let me see what I can do. I'll try." At a small table in the middle of Hollywood's Sightglass Coffee, the conversation about the AFI vocalist's possible sudden death has drawn the eyes of coffee drinkers in the surrounding area."
"A whopping 35 years into AFI's career (along with side projects like the electronic Blaqk Audio and poppy Dreamcar), Havok has finally put together a record that he would be happy to leave behind as the final piece of his legacy - hence the mortality discussion. But his love for "Silver Bleeds the Black Sun" also gives Havok (born David Passaro) a slight cause for concern."
"Havok says, wearing a sleeveless black shirt over his primarily blacked-out arms. 'It was clear that the 900,000 fans that were there for those couple of years of MTV and magazine covers were there for different reasons, but it was still really brutal. 'Crash Love' was such a fun record to make, whereas 'Decemberunderground' wasn't. I felt so good about 'Crash Love,' in a"
Davey Havok contemplates mortality while promoting AFI's twelfth album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun, due Friday from Run for Cover Records. AFI marks 35 years with a record Havok would be willing to leave as his final legacy. Havok's other projects include Blaqk Audio and Dreamcar. He recalls that after mainstream success with Sing the Sorrow and Decemberunderground, the band released Crash Love in 2009 and lost many transient fans. Havok describes the loss of roughly 900,000 fans as brutal but emphasizes that Crash Love was fun to make, contrasting it with Decemberunderground.
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