Black Sails in The Sunset - Background

Background

  • On the side of the album is a hidden message, reading 'Beyond And To All Time I Stand'. This is a lyric from the album's hidden track, Midnight Sun.
  • The track Midnight Sun was inspired by the poem De Profundis Clamavi by Charles Baudelaire. Havok can be heard reciting parts of the poem in the song's bridge.
  • 'Porphyria Cutanea Tarda' is listed as 'Porphyria' on the back cover of the album, as it was listed on Black Sails EP.
  • Jade Puget has stated that 'Malleus Maleficarum' was the first song he wrote as part of AFI.
  • The opening track, 'Strength Through Wounding' contains a repeated chant, 'Through our bleeding, we are one', which fans like to chant during concerts while waiting for the band to come onstage, or between songs.
  • Dexter Holland, the vocalist for The Offspring is featured in the tracks 'Clove Smoke Catharsis' and 'The Prayer Position', as he was the owner of the record label, Nitro Records at the time.
  • "God Called In Sick Today" is one of AFI's favorite songs to play live. Since the album's release it has always been on their set, usually to end a show. An exception is the I Heard a Voice – Live from Long Beach Arena show, in which they concluded with "Miss Murder".

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