AFI Announces 2026 Trek with Choir Boy

Following the release of their new album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… and the premier leg of their first headline tour since 2021 earlier this year, AFI announces a second leg of their North American headlining tour with support from Choir Boy. The ten-date run will see AFI bring their electric live show to Seattle, Vancouver, Albuquerque, Kansas City, Minneapolis and more. Tickets are available for presale tomorrow, December 10th, with general on sale this Friday, December 12th, at 10 am local time HERE.

This October, AFI released their aforementioned album Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… via Run For Cover Records, which includes the singles “Behind the Clock,” “Holy Visions,” and “Ash Speck in a Green Eye.”

For more than three decades, AFI has been in a nearly constant state of reinvention. The band has made it a point to evolve with every album – sometimes dramatically so – never allowing themselves to become too comfortable in one genre or rest on any of their impressive career laurels. It’s an approach that has grown their audience but also challenged it with a sonic identity that can shift in wild, unexpected directions. Now with Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…, AFI are once again at the start of an exciting new chapter, only this time they’ve even managed to surprise themselves.

The goal of Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… was to make an album with a singular mood, something dreamy and ethereal, and the band members found themselves diving headfirst into influences that had always been deeply embedded in AFI’s musical core, but now were being brought to the forefront. The result is an album that feels out of time, at once familiar and fresh, drawing on classic sounds and reinterpreting them through a modern lens.

The album is dark and otherworldly, but also grandiose and stately, biting and beautiful in equal measure—in other words, it’s very AFI, yet not quite like any version of the band you’ve ever heard before.

Speaking on its significance, Davey Havok shares:

“Silver Bleeds the Black Sun… is a sonic manifestation of the struggle to reconcile existence in the godless, uncanny dystopia that is modern life.”

AFI ‘Silver Bleeds the Black Sun…’ album artwork

Tour Dates:

04/15 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo*
04/17 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater*
04/18 – Vancouver, BC @ The Commodore Ballroom*
04/21 – Missoula, MT @ The Wilma*
04/22 – Boise, ID @ Knitting Factory Boise*
04/25 – Las Vegas, NV @ Sick New World Festival
04/27 – Albuquerque, NM @ El Rey*
04/28 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater*
04/30 – Omaha, NE @ The Admiral*
05/01 – Kansas City, MO @ The Truman*
05/02 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue*
10/24 – Fort Worth, TX @ Sick New World Festival
*= w/ Choir Boy

AFI x Choir Boy 2026 tour admat