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Released that June, the set continued their late-era maturation with a combination of synth-friendly sheen and nostalgic punk energy, heard on additional tracks such as "Looking Tragic" and "Dulceria," which was co-written with tourmate Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins.

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AFI's eighth studio album is titled Crash Love and was released on September 29, , peaking at 12 on the Billboard , selling 52, copies in its first week of release. The album's lead single is " Medicate ". Stopholese suggested his friend Adam Carson , who had a drum kit join the band.

AFI disbanded when its members attended different colleges, including UC Berkeley where members of the band lived and practiced for a time in the basement of the Delta Chi fraternity house on Channing Way. Kresge moved to New York where he played with Blanks After reuniting to perform a live show, the other members decided to drop out of college to play full-time with AFI. After several tours in support of the album Very Proud of Ya, Kresge decided to leave the group.

The band then recorded Black Sails in the Sunset , a musical turning point which introduced AFI fans to a much darker sound, [7] mixing the band's original hardcore roots with dark romantic influences a poem by Charles Baudelaire , "De profundis clamavi," is present in the hidden track "Midnight Sun" and an emphasis on a more somber atmosphere and lyrics. The influence of the Deathrock and Goth rock scenes was also apparent.

During this period their style was mostly referred to as horror punk or "gothic punk. It received a fair amount of radio play and exposed AFI to larger audiences. Offspring frontman Dexter Holland was featured as a backing vocalist on a number of Black Sails tracks. II ", and " Silver and Cold " had some Billboard chart success and exposed the band to even larger audiences.

Although the band performed "Love Like Winter" according to plan, technical difficulties occurred during their set of "Miss Murder," in which Davey's microphone went out during various parts of the song.

Though " The Missing Frame " was originally supposed to be the third single off Decemberunderground , [13] Davey Havok confirmed in the "Ask AFI" section of the Despair Faction message boards that there will not be a video for the song.