The Blood Album is now AFI’s biggest success since 2006′ Decemberunderground
January 30, 2017
AFI recently told German website Laut that, quote, “the fire of the band is still burning, in each one of us.” Now it’s obvious this fire in the band is bigger than ever. The four friends can open champagne today as for the fourth time in AFI’s history, their album has debuted in the top ten of the Billboard 200 and landed at #5!
Watch: AFI ‘Snow Cats’ and ‘Miss Murder’ on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
AFI (The Blood Album) is the band’s tenth studio effort, released on January 20, and it’s now close to repeating the success of the band’s world-breakthrough album Decemberunderground, which came out in in 2006 and immediately reached #1 spot on Billboard.
And now that’s you’ve all got AFI’s latest LP, you should also take a look at the band’s fresh music video for ‘Aurelia’, the third video for a single from The Blood Album (watch below). ‘Aurelia’ offers an extremely close-up focusing on the band members’ eyes, lips and other facial parts – a mesmerizing yet a bit disturbing view.
The previous two clips were launched for singles ‘Snow Cats” and ‘White Offerings’, with one picking up where the other one left off. Guitarist Jade Puget unveiled to Laut website that when it came to choosing singles for The Blood Album, it was a really difficult selection:
[quote align=”center” color=”#COLOR_CODE”]”Actually, we could have chosen every song. The special thing about this album is that it sounds coherent and homogenous, but each song somehow stands completely for itself. I mean there’s actually no typical single on the album.”[/quote]
More: Watch AFI’s Stylish Dressed-In-White Music Video for ‘White Offerings’
Check out AFI’s tour dates below (though most shows have already been sold out). Davey Havok and co. are currently on the road with The Blood Tour, accompanied by the Chain Gang Of 1974, Nothing and Souvenirs.
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AFI The Blood Tour Dates (Souvenirs on all dates, Chain Gang of 1974 and Nothing on select dates):
Jan 21st – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater **SOLD OUT**
Jan 23rd – Portland , OR @ Roseland Theater
Jan 24th – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
Jan 25th – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox ** SOLD OUT**
Jan 27th – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot **SOLD OUT**
Jan 28th – Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre **SOLD OUT**
Jan 30th – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Jan 31st – Chicago, IL @ Riviera Theater
Feb 1st – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall
Feb 3rd – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
Feb 4th – Boston, MA @ Paradise Rock Club **SOLD OUT**
Feb 6th – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer **SOLD OUT**
Feb 7th – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club **SOLD OUT**
Feb 8th – Baltimore, MD @ Rams Head Live
Feb 10th – Orlando, FL @ The Plaza Live **SOLD OUT**
Feb 11th – Atlanta, GA @ Buckhead Theatre **SOLD OUT**
Feb 13th – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
Feb 14th – Austin, TX @ Emo’s
Feb 15th – Dallas, TX @ South Side Music Hall
Feb 17th – Tempe, AZ @ The Marquee
Feb 18th – Las Vegas, NV @ The Joint
Feb 20th – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park **SOLD OUT**
Feb 21st – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park **SOLD OUT**
Feb 22nd – San Diego, CA @ Observatory North Park **SOLD OUT**
Feb 24th – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern **SOLD OUT**
Feb 25th – Los Angeles, CA The Wiltern **SOLD OUT**
