I say, 'It is an honour to meet you, you are one of my biggest inspirations.' And he says 'kneel' and asks for the cane..." What happened when a goth icon had a surprise encounter with a punk rock hero

Peter Murphy on stage and Davey Havok at the Mercy For Animals black carpet event.

In case you missed the memo, AFI have gone full goth. After decades spent weaving the influences of goth masters such as Sisters Of Mercy, Bauhaus and The Cure around their emotionally-charged punk/post-punk/hardcore leanings, it seems the cult Cali icons have finally gone all the way in with new album Silver Bleeds The Black Sun...

If early singles Behind The Clock and Holy Visions are anything to go by, we're in for a none-more-black blast of deliciously 80s-bent gothic melodrama that Bauhaus' own Peter Murphy would be proud of. It's a sentiment you suspect AFI frontman Davey Havok would be particularly pleased with, having once had a delightfully weird encounter with his hero at a show in Los Angeles.