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Davey Havok Says It Breaks His Heart That AFI Are 'Represented' By 'Miss Murder'

Mary Varvaris

"I even voted to not put it on the record, but that experience really proved to me that it was all about marketing," Havok said.

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AFI frontman Davey Havok has been in a reflective mood, musing on the rock band’s success in a recent interview with Metal Hammer.

However, the singer also divulged some surprising feelings about one of the band’s biggest hits, Miss Murder, from their 2006 record Decemberunderground.

“It breaks my heart that Miss Murder will always represent us, and that I will die and someone will look up AFI and Miss Murder is what they’re gonna find,” Havok said.

His comments followed part of the interview where he reflected on the “incredible” success of the Sing The Sorrow single, Girl’s Not Grey. That track made it to the Top 10 of Billboard’s Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Havok stressed that he doesn’t dislike Miss Murder, describing it as a “pretty good song.” But, even in the writing of Decemberunderground, he never thought the track was their greatest, and tried to keep it off the record.

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“I even voted to not put it on the record, but that experience really proved to me that it was all about marketing, because everything after Decemberunderground is better than Decemberunderground,” he said.

He continued, “I have campaigned to keep it off the setlist and recently succeeded. When we play a festival or when we’re playing a city where we feel we have a few more passive fans, we’re gonna play it, and I don’t mind it, but I do enjoy the optics of removing it from the set.”

Miss Murder was the lead single from AFI’s seventh album, Decemberunderground. The song reached #24 on the Billboard Hot 100 and charted at #14 on the ARIA Singles Chart; it’s since gone Platinum in Australia.

AFI’s twelfth and most recent album, Silver Bleeds the Black Sun..., was released last October. Before the album’s release, the rockers performed in Australian stadiums in March 2025, opening for Green Day on their massive Saviors tour. They also performed a headline show at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre.

“I love it very, very much,” Havok told The Music of their twelfth record. “It’s by far my favourite work that we’ve done.

“And going into the creation of it, I was a little bit concerned because of my feelings toward [eleventh album] Bodies, that I might not be able to create something that I felt more excited about than Bodies, but we did it.”