Black Sails EP
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{{Infobox album
| name = Black Sails EP
| type = ep
| artist = AFI
| cover = AFI - Black Sails EP cover.jpg
| released = {{Start date|1999|04|27}}{{cite web|title=Black Sails EP|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=mw0000239883|pure_url=yes}}|work=All Media Network|publisher=AllMusic|accessdate=July 30, 2017}}
| genre = Punk rock
| length = 11:50
| label = Nitro
| producer = AFI
| prev_title = A Fire Inside EP
| prev_year = 1998
| next_title = Black Sails in the Sunset
| next_year = 1999
}}
Black Sails EP is an extended play by the American rock band AFI. It was released on April 27, 1999, through Nitro Records. Only 5,000 copies were pressed. It is a sampler of the band's fourth studio album Black Sails in the Sunset.
Background
The first three tracks can be found on the album Black Sails in the Sunset. On the full-length album, "Porphyria" is re-titled "Porphyria Cutanea Tarda" and contains a crossfade into the next track, "Exsanguination". "Who Knew?" is a B-side from the full-length album and appears on its Japanese edition. This is the first release with Jade Puget as an official member of the band.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_lyrics = Davey Havok
| all_music = AFI
| title1 = Porphyria
| length1 = 2:09
| title2 = Malleus Maleficarum
| length2 = 4:04
| title3 = The Prayer Position
| length3 = 3:30
| title4 = Who Knew?
| length4 = 2:14
}}
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.{{Cite AV media notes|title=Black Sails EP|others=AFI|year=1999|type=Liner notes|publisher=Nitro Records|id=15828-2}}
- AFI – producer, arrangements, backing vocals
- Davey Havok – lead vocals, lyrics
- Jade Puget – lead guitar, programming, keyboard, piano, synthesizer, backing vocals
- Adam Carson – drums, percussion, backing vocals
- Hunter Burgan – bass, programming, keyboard, backing vocals
- Andy Earnst – engineer, mixing
- Alan Forbes – cover illustration
- Dexter Holland – additional guitar, backing vocals
- Thad LaRue – assistant engineer
- Gabe Morford – photography
- Jamie Reilly – layout
;Studios
- Engineered and mixed at The Art of Ears, Hayward, CA