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David Paden Marchand (born David Paden Passaro, November 20, 1975), known professionally as Davey Havok, is an American singer who is the lead vocalist of the Rock music band AFI, the synth-pop band Blaqk Audio, the hardcore punk band XTRMST, and the new wave band Dreamcar. Among various other ventures, he performed lead vocals for Son of Sam's debut album and for fictional band My Purple Agony in the animated series Harvey Girls Forever!.
Havok is an advocate of the straight edge lifestyle and veganism.
target="_blank" rel="nofollow"> Wayback Machine: in Rochester, New York on November 20, 1975. He is of Italian ancestry.
When Havok was age 5, his father died, Metal Hammer interview, February 2003 and he and his mother moved from Rochester to Sacramento, California to be closer to family. His mother remarried and Havok took on the surname of his stepfather (Marchand), and was enrolled in Catholic school through eighth grade. The family moved to Ukiah, California in the late 1980s, where he graduated from Ukiah High School in 1993.
Following high school, Havok attended University of California, Berkeley. Following his sophomore year, his career with AFI started, and Havok did not return to the university.
After high school, the band broke up when its members left for college. Havok attended UC Berkeley. There, he began writing lyrics that later appeared on AFI's first two albums.
After gaining some popularity in their absence, AFI played a show at the Phoenix Theater for several hundred fans. Following the positive reception, they decided to reunite and record an album. In 1995, Answer That and Stay Fashionable, the band's first album, was released on Wingnut Records and in 1996, Very Proud of Ya was released on Nitro Records. In 1997, the band released Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes.
The next release was the A Fire Inside EP, which features covers of "The Hanging Garden" by the Cure and "Demonomania" by the Misfits. In 1999, the band released Black Sails in the Sunset, which was the first album to include the current line-up: Havok, Carson, Hunter Burgan and Jade Puget. In the fall of 1999, they released the All Hallows EP.
In 2000, they released The Art of Drowning to fair record sales. The group had toured with another band, Samhain, on their reunion tour; Havok later joined three members of Samhain and recorded an album under the name Son of Sam. In 2000, when Michale Graves had left the Misfits, Havok was approached by Roadrunner Records to be the lead singer of Misfits. However, Havok told an interviewer that he never would leave AFI as it was his own band.Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine:
AFI continued to tour for a few years and released a few EPs along the way. In 2003, Sing the Sorrow, the band's first major label release, was released, achieving platinum status in the U.S. and Canada and Gold in Australia. On June 6, 2006, Decemberunderground was released on Interscope Records, again achieving platinum status in the U.S. and Canada and Gold in Australia.
AFI's DVD I Heard a Voice – Live from Long Beach Arena was released on December 12, 2006, containing a live concert from Long Beach Arena from September 15, 2006. This DVD was released as a CD-version in November 2007. Decemberunderground achieved double platinum status in 2013, having sold more than 2 million copies worldwide. AFI's eighth studio album Crash Love was released on September 29, 2009, and Burials was released on October 22, 2013.
In late 2016, AFI released a series of teaser videos featuring song clips and backwards audio, eventually revealed to be promotion for AFI (also known as The Blood Album), released on January 20, 2017 via Concord Music Group. In 2022, AFI had the Bodies tour. For the 20 year anniversary of Sing the Sorrow, AFI performed the album in its entirety on March 11, 2023 at a sold-out concert in Inglewood, CA .
Havok released Love Fast Los Angeles in February 2018.
Havok's Zu Boutique was launched in August 2008. The line was vegan and featured T-shirts with a limited pressing of 100 shirts per design. A jewelry line was released in March 2009 in collaboration with PNUT Jewelry, the side project of Rusty Pistachio of punk band H2O fame. The jewelry was also limited, with only 10 to 90 pieces of each design made. In August 2009, in collaboration with Macbeth Footwear, Zu released a line of limited-edition shoes. Plagued by legal trouble, Zu Boutique vanished in 2012. Havok continues to collaborate with PNUT Jewelry.
In more recent years, Havok had some of his tattoos "blacked out", saying "I'm constantly changing, and it's an attempt to cover up bad decisions with worse decisions. That's how I live life."
| + !Song !Artist !Album | ||
| "Astro-Zombies" | Heckle | We're Not Laughing With You |
| "Blue Strip" | Fury 66 | For a Lack of a Better Word |
| "Congratulations" | Jimmy Eat World | Surviving |
| "Dead and Gone" | Heckle | Adequately Feigned Competence EP |
| "December" | Seven Lions | The Throes of Winter |
| "Feel Alive" | Fracas | A New Host of Torment |
| "Float" | Souvenirs | Postures of Apology |
| "Funeral Waves" | Dear Boy | Dear Boy EP |
| "I Don't Wanna Behave" | Dance Hall Crashers | Lockjaw |
| "Jekyl and Hyde" | The Nerve Agents | Days of the White Owl |
| "Misconceptions of Hell" | Tim Timebomb | Rock'n'Roll Theather (Youtube Webseries) |
| "Mother Nature" | My Purple Agony (fictional band from Harvey Girls Forever!) | Harvey Girls Forever! |
| "My World Is A Cookie" | My Purple Agony (fictional band from Harvey Girls Forever!) | Harvey Girls Forever! |
| "Quick Death" | The Transplants | Transplants |
| "Riptide" | Lane 8 | Riptide - Single |
| "S.K.Y." | The Witch Was Right | The Red Horse |
| "Smile and Nod" | The Dear & Departed | Every Waking Moment |
| "The Sky And I" | Scarlet Grey | Fancy Blood EP |
| 1996 | Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore | George | |
| 2003 | Clandestine | himself | |
| 2006 | Live Freaky! Die Freaky! | Hay | voice |
| 2009 | Dragos | voice | |
| New Brow: The Rise of Underground Art | himself | ||
| 2011 | American Idiot | St. Jimmy | musical |
| Tim Timebomb's RockNRoll Theater | Devil | ||
| 2012 | Knife Fight | Jimmy McSorley | |
| 2013 | Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton | James Broughton's journals | voice |
| 2015 | Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey | himself | special guest |
| Darknet Delivery: A Silk Road Story | The Pop Philosopher | ||
| Dacryphilia | Pablo | voice | |
| 2017 | himself | documentary | |
| 2019 | Harvey Street Kids | Victor Lavender | voice |
| 2023 | Free LSD | Davinatrix / The Promoter | |
| Punk Rock Vegan Movie | himself | documentary |
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