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 Davey Havok & Jade Puget of AFI launch hardcore band side project

Posted by Matt on March 17, 2014

Davey Havok & Jade Puget of AFI launch hardcore band side project
Davey Havok & Jade Puget of AFI launch hardcore band side project

Rumors are increasing that newly-announced hardcore band XTRMST is a side project of AFI frontman and guitarist respectively, Davey Havok and Jade Puget. Details are sketchy but Alternative Press claim that a tape was given away at Vacation Vinyl in LA containing four tracks of "straight edge hardcore". The vocals definitely sound like Havok – give it a listen below, do you think it's them?

Davey Havok & Jade Puget of AFI launch hardcore band side project
Davey Havok & Jade Puget of AFI launch hardcore band side project

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