AFI confirm tour date, album title; talk about "scavenger hunt"

More details continue to trickle out about the next full length from AFI as well as some interesting events they've been working on for fans. The band today announced a June 6th, 2006 release date for the album which will be titled Decemberunderground..

The band also talked about some interesting projects they've been working on. One notable example was a "treasure hunt" of sorts that sent fans following clues both online and real. The story describes part of it:

It started with an audio clip, which led fans to a Web site where they found a menu to a vegan restaurant in Los Angeles that AFI frequent. Within that menu was a sequence of numerals that fans realized was a Louisiana phone number. When they called it, they heard a strange message: two women and two men, rattling off even more numbers. Those were decoded, using the alphabet code (i.e. 1 being A, 2 being B, etc.). This guided fans to a Web site containing a video of AFI frontman Davey Havok -- his head wrapped in one long bandage. As the clip progresses, hands, concealed in black gloves, begin to remove the bandage from his face. Havok is mouthing the words "Tell," "Nothing" and "Charlotte."

More on the sequence of clues can be found in the story.

The first single, titled "Miss Murder" is scheduled to hit radio the week of April 24th. The band will also be performing on Warped, but is also planning several headlining dates as well as a video for the first single.

The album follows Sing the Sorrow and the band will be supporting the album with a run on this summer's Warped Tour.