Blaqk Audio

Blaqk Audio
Blaqk Audio performing live in 2007. From left to right: Davey Havok and Jade Puget.
Background information
Origin	Oakland, California, United States
Genres	Synthpop,EBM, dark wave
Years active	2001–2002, 2006–present
Labels	Interscope, Superball Music
Associated acts	AFI, Loose Change, Redemption 87, Influence 13, Son of Sam, XTRMST, Dreamcar
Website	www.blaqkaudio.com
Members	Davey Havok Jade Puget

Blaqk Audio is an American electronic music duo, formed by current AFI members Davey Havok and Jade Puget under Interscope Records.

Their debut album CexCells was released on August 14, 2007 and reached number eighteen on the Billboard 200. The band's second album Bright Black Heaven was released on September 11, 2012 under Superball Music's imprint Big Death. The first single from Bright Black Heaven, "Faith Healer", was released August 14, 2012. Their third album Material was released on April 15, 2016, and became their third consecutive album to debut at number one on the Billboard Dance/Electronic Albums chart.

Havok and Puget started writing music for Blaqk Audio around 2001, but they were too busy with AFI to devote enough time to the project. They returned to the project only in 2006, and the debut album CexCells was put out in August 2007.

AFI have increasingly included synthesized elements into their recent albums; 2003 release Sing the Sorrow and 2006 release Decemberunderground credit Puget with 'programming and keyboards'. These synthesized elements are particularly apparent on songs such as "Death of Seasons" and "37mm". In the August 2006 edition of Guitar World, Puget states that AFI songs "37mm" and "Love Like Winter" were both originally intended as part of the Blaqk Audio side project. Elements of programming, however, can be found as early as 2000s The Art of Drowning, which featured a drum machine on "The Despair Factor".

Blaqk Audio entered the studio to record several songs for their first album in January 2007. Puget kept fans apprised with updates through his blog, before the Blaqk Audio Myspace was created in February 2007. By July 27, they had filmed footage for the music video for their debut single "Stiff Kittens", but the video was never finished. In 2007, Puget collaborated with the German band Tokio Hotel, contributing a remix of "Ready, Set, Go!" called "Ready, Set, Go! (AFI/Blaqk Audio Remix)" to the American version of Scream. On January 12, 2008, Puget uploaded a new song to the Blaqk Audio Myspace titled "The Ligature".