More Rumored Bright Black Heaven Release Dates Surface

Prefixmag is reporting that Bright Black Heaven will be released on December 28th, 2010. Note that this source was also incorrect in the past regarding Crash Love's release date and should not be taken seriously.
This is also contrary to the previous spring rumor.

More possible release dates will be added to this post if I find more.

Update: PrefixMag has seemed to of removed the release date from their website. All that is left is '2010'.

Possible Bright Black Heaven Release Date?

According to this website, Bright Black Heaven, Blaqk Audio's sophomore album, will be released in spring of this year. This does not confirm anything and will be treated as a rumor.

If you find any more possible release dates/timeframes, please share them with us.
Please credit Blaqk News for the find.

Stiff Kittens video was never finished

Thanks AFI News HQ for this. Jade recently did an interview with Maximum Ink music magazine. Among discussing mainly AFI, he finally answers the question we have always wanted to know:

"MI: On that note, is the Blaqk Audio video for STIFF KITTENS ever going to see the light of day?

JP: It was never finished. We have all the footage that we shot but I keep forgetting that it exists. I think I need to get my hands on the footage and maybe make a short of it or something, release that footage. There was some cool stuff in there, we just never finished it and it fell apart. It would be cool to release some of the footage at least."

As we first reported, you can see snippets of the video in the background of their shows (click here)

Jade in the Studio

Jade just made this tweet:

twitter.com/jadepuget

The new album just keeps getting closer and closer! Is there anything that you are hoping that this album has that you think there wasn't enough of on the last album?

The Lost Interview

Thanks to John for the tip!

VF Magazine, a now cancelled publication, conducted an interview with Davey (about Blaqk Audio) in 2007 that never hit the press. The interview has resurfaced on this blog, here. 

The interview is very lengthy, and while isn't too revealing, a lot of previously unknown is said about the group's origins. Subjects discussed are such as the electronic/synth genre, what Davey takes influence from, and his personal interests. It's definitely an interesting read, if you have the time.

Guitar World Article

Jade posted this scan of a page from Guitar World today and this excerpt mentions Blaqk Audio briefly, although the majority of it is in discussion of Crash Love. Here is the portion that discusses Cex Cells just in case you have trouble reading it when the image is enlarged:

An important stepping-stone in that new direction arrived in the unlikely form of Cex Cells, the 2007 album of Eighties-influenced electronica by Havok and Puget's side project Blaqk Audio. "It's possible that there are fewer electronic layers on Crash Love because there are so many of them on the Blaqk Audio record," Puget says. "But I don't think that's really it. It's just that Blaqk Audio was so casual and easy to do. There was no pressure involved in writing and putting out that record. It was all fun. That's why Davey and I were relaxed and creative state when we started writing Crash Love."

In his post, Jade said this is from the new Guitar World so it should be out on the stands now!

The Stiff Kittens Music Video

As Laurel brought up before, Blaqk Audio did premier the Stiff Kittens video as a backdrop during a few of their concerts on their debut tour. As many of you were interested, and haven't known or seen these snippets of the video before, I dug up some old Youtube videos to show you guys. They seemed to of only played clips of the video, otherwise the screen went blank or just displayed a solid color at times.

Some background info on the video if you don't know:
The video was filmed by Marc Webb, AFI's longtime videographer who has directed all the videos through The Days of the Phoenix to Love Like Winter. Recently, Marc hit big success with his debut film "500 Days of Summer"; and has always said to be great friends with the band. Because Davey & Jade were on a tight budget, Marc was nice enough to film them a video for free in his basement. Jade said in a blog update on Myspace they made plaster replicas of their faces supposedly to use in the video. Jade later kept giving us false hope by announcing timeframes the video would be released several times, yet we haven't officially seen any segment of it yet. It is thought to of been a label issue with Interscope as to the reason why. On April 30th, 2009, Davey said in an interview with Loveline that the video wasn't released simply due to the fact "it didn't work".

Here are a few videos with the Stiff Kittens video playing in the backdrop:




What we can see: Davey in various night vision shots, rippling water, close up of Davey's face in front of various flashing colors, and that's about it.

We can only hope someday that this video will see the light of day.

If you find any more good Youtube videos showcasing it in the backdrop, please post them here!

Blaqk Audio Mention in AFI's "In Transmission" Segment from Today...

In AFI's "In Transmission" segment about "Torch Song", Davey talks about how he feels that he improved his song writing, in regards to finding the best/most comfortable area of his vocal range for songs, while working on "CexCells".

That section of the interview can be seen here.
There will be a new 'episode' nearly each week, for the next couple of months...Tune in to see if anything else Blaqk Audio-related is mentioned.

~*Kristin*

Bright Black Heaven is coming out 2010

Looks like he's excited about the new BA - Jade posted a short blog update confirming that Blaqk Audio's next album will indeed be released in 2010.

Also, if you have missed it before, check out their cover of No New Tale to Tell. I'm loving this track.
What does everything think of their 3rd official cover song?

~Laurel

Bright Black Heaven is "Danceable, Much Like CexCells"

In an interview on Rockline, a caller asked Davey & Jade about Bright Black Heaven. At first joking about it, Davey then told us the record sounds much like CexCells, and is very danceable. The group also "explored new territory", and as previously noted, Jade said he experimented with new elements on the record (IDM & Drum 'n' Bass).

UPDATE:
You can now listen to this segment of the interview, here.

Billboard Interview Reveals New Details

Thanks to 'AFI Latino' for the heads up. Billboard put out a recent article regarding Blaqk Audio, spilling some new tidbits of information.

• Jade commented that "if all of a sudden we're doing two Blaqk Audio records in a row people will think AFI is not happening or something", in regards to the new record actually being finished before Crash Love.
• Michael Patterson mixed the record.
• Jade has already written another 70 songs for the group, so the final album might undergo changes before release.
• Jade says there will be a boxset for Bright Black Heaven, inferring the set will also come with more songs. (It if unknown if he was being sarcastic or not.)

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Alternative Press updates us on Blaqk Audio

From our sister website, AFI News HQ:

• Davey & Jade will wait until after the Crash Love touring to release the next Blaqk Audio album, Bright Black Heaven.
• 18 songs were recorded for the album, though only 12 made it onto the actual record.
• The group experiments with different electronic genres this time around that CexCells did not touch upon, for instance IDM and Drum 'n' Bass.

The new Blaqk Audio album is titled "Bright Black Heaven"

On October 29th, 2009, it was revealed through this interview done by MyYearbook with Jade that the next Blaqk Audio record will be called "Bright Black Heaven". We also know that the record has been completed for quite some time now.

What do you think of the title for their sophomore album? Let us know here or in the new poll...