American alternative rock band AFI (A Fire Inside) have unveiled their official hotly anticipated video for "Beautiful Thieves" off their latest eighth full-length acclaimed "Crash Love" album, across all MTV channels as well as KROQ on Thursday morning. The song "Beautiful Thieves" is the follow-up single to "Medicate," released all the way back in last August and did pretty well for itself.Alternative rockers AFI really spike the punch bowl in their new video, which was filmed in mid December 2009 and directed by Travis Kopach (Hinder's "Without You," Taking Back Sunday's "Sink Into Me"), and it shows a more classy side of the band. Normally covered in punk black from head to toe and lots of eye makeup, here the band are cleaned up in suits and faces. The video follows them through a high-class party full of cocktails, hookups, and blackouts. AFI frontman Davey Havok and his bandmates suit it up in formal tuxedos and follows them making their way to a huge mansion with beautiful ladies awaiting inside.
The band has been invited to play a bourgie black-tie cocktail party that inches its way toward the sexier and scarier. Coke makes a cameo, hot girls designed after evil robot Dita Von Teese crawl out of their white dresses and into pools. Like any good goth purveyors, death is designed to look very pretty. Havok's suggestion that the video "shows people being forced to be responsible for their actions, we implement that retribution, if you will." Drums Adam Carson previously commented to AFI News Headquarters about the concept of the video, "It's a very cinematic song so I expect we have our work cut out to make the video look as grand as the song is."
Recently, the rockers also launched a Twitter background contest which requires fans to create something creative from "Crash Love" artwork and other images provided on the official contest page. A promotional effort for the album has been kicked off with a number of live concerts in North America, Asia and Europe.
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