ĪFI continued to tour for a few years and released a few EPs along the way. However, Havok told an interviewer that he never would leave AFI as it was his own band. In 2000, when Michale Graves had left the Misfits, Havok was approached by Roadrunner Records to be the lead singer of Misfits. The group had toured with another band, Samhain, on their reunion tour Havok later joined three members of Samhain and recorded an album under the name Son of Sam.
In 2000, they released The Art of Drowning to fair record sales. In the fall of 1999, they released the All Hallows EP. In 1999, the band released Black Sails in the Sunset, which was the first album to include the current line-up: Havok, Carson, Hunter Burgan and Jade Puget. The next release was the A Fire Inside EP, which features covers of "The Hanging Garden" by The Cure and "Demonomania" by the Misfits. In 1997, the band released Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes. In 1995, Answer That and Stay Fashionable, the band's first album, was released on Wingnut Records and in 1996, Very Proud of Ya was released on Nitro Records. Following the positive reception, they decided to reunite and record an album. There, he began writing lyrics that later appeared on AFI's first two albums.Īfter gaining some popularity in their absence, AFI played a show at the Phoenix Theater for several hundred fans.
That band became AFI.Īfter high school, the band broke up when its members left for college. Stopholese suggested that Adam Carson might be able to fill the role of drummer because he owned a drum set. Havok and his friends, Mark Stopholese and Vic Chalker, decided to start a band in high school, but they did not own or play any instruments. Musical career AFI AFI performing live in 1995 Following his sophomore year, his career with AFI started, and Havok did not return to the university. įollowing high school, Havok attended University of California, Berkeley. The family moved to Ukiah, California in the late 1980s, where he graduated from Ukiah High School in 1993. His mother remarried and Havok took on the surname of his stepfather (Marchand), and was enrolled in Catholic school through eighth grade. When Havok was age 5, his father died, and he and his mother moved from Rochester to Sacramento, California to be closer to family. Havok was born David Paden Passaro, in Rochester, New York on November 20, 1975. Havok is an outspoken advocate of the straight edge lifestyle and veganism. Among various other ventures, he performed lead vocals for Son of Sam's debut album and for fictional band My Purple Agony in the animated series Harvey Girls Forever!. David Paden Marchand (born David Paden Passaro, November 20, 1975), known professionally as Davey Havok, is an American singer and musician who is the lead vocalist of the rock band AFI, the synth-pop band Blaqk Audio, the hardcore punk band XTRMST, and the new wave band Dreamcar.
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