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AFI Reignite Blaqk Audio Project With Track ‘Anointed’

• 24th Feb 2016

AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget have announced they will rekindle their elecronic side-project BLAQK AUDIO with an April 15th release for their new album MATERIAL (Blaqknoise/Kobalt)

Fans can get lead single “Anointed” as an instant download with every pre-order of MATERIAL on iTunes – stream the track in full below. Produced and recorded by Puget, MATERIAL is Blaqk Audio’s third release following 2012’s Bright Black Heaven and 2007’s Cexcells.

“Considering this is Blaqk Audio’s third record over the course of its 15-year existence, it’s always an exciting and rare opportunity to release a new batch of songs,” says Puget. “Each new release finds us in a very different place, creatively, than the last. Influences are different, musical interests have slightly or vastly shifted. As a writer, I’ve moved fully onto [software music sequencer] Ableton Live since the last album, which changes my workflow and writing style.”

About first track “Anointed,” Havok says, “’Anointed’ highlights themes of misplaced hopes of salvation, redemption and rebirth that carry through the record. Material is the blank canvas, the fundamental substance, the base of what we create.”

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