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Black Sails in the Sunset is the fourth studio album by American rock band AFI. It was released on May 18, 1999, through Nitro Records. With the addition of guitarist Jade Puget as a permanent member, it is the first AFI album to feature the current line up of the band.

The band members, sans Jade Puget, were roommates when guitarist Mark Stopholese departed AFI. Puget had just graduated from college and was living in Davey Havok's room while the band was on tour. They asked him to join the band as the new guitarist and immediately began writing the album; Puget had already written the basis for "Malleus Maleficarum". The band describes the album as forming the beginning of their subsequent sound, which contains more melodic vocals, as opposed to their first three albums, which maintain a fast, non melodic punk sound. "God Called in Sick Today" marked the band's first ballad style song. The album has been described stylistically as hardcore punk, and post hardcore. The album cover illustration features an uneasy black and blue ocean below an orange sky and dark clouds. A black sailed ship on the horizon sails to the far right. The back cover shows the same horizon but crops out the ship, which appears in white on the CD label and behind the CD tray. The inner edge of the CD case reveals the message "Beyond and To All Time I Stand", a lyric from the hidden track, "Midnight Sun". The liner notes feature an illustration of a ship in a storm, as well as photos of the band and a more decorative band logo.

Black Sails in the Sunset was received well by critics. Alternative Press gave the album four and a half out of five stars, commenting that "with new guitarist Jade Puget adding a sense of brooding, thespian eloquence to the disc's shadowy post hardcore, AFI all but reinvented themselves," and "With longer, deeper, richer, more complex compositions than they've ever attempted before, Black Sails tackles everything from brooding hardcore to shimmering balladry " The publication also went as far as to say that the album is "their first epic." In 2021, it was named one of the 20 best metal albums of 1999 by Metal Hammer magazine.