[1] Before joining AFI on November 2, 1998, Jade Puget played in various bands, including Loose Change and Redemption 87.

[3] Puget's addition to the band introduced fans to a more melodically acute and dynamic sound that was vastly different from earlier material.

in October 1999, which featured various elements of horror punk and a sound disparate from much of the band's earlier material.

[7] In 2007, Puget and AFI bandmate Davey Havok released the album CexCells as the electronic duo Blaqk Audio.

In the time off after the Crash Love tour, Puget and Havok returned to Blaqk Audio, releasing their second album, Bright Black Heaven, made available September 11, 2012.

"[citation needed] In February 2014, numerous cassette tapes were distributed from record shops in Southern California, titled "XTRMST" and described as "Straight edge hardcore".

In the following weeks, numerous sources leaked rumors that XTRMST was a side project of Puget and Davey Havok.

Puget has stated that he and Havok had no intent on releasing a full-length record, but the overwhelming positive reaction motivated them to move forward with the project.

He remixed Tiger Army's "Where the Moss Slowly Grows" off the band's album Music From Regions Beyond.

[15] Puget did some production work for the band Scarlet Grey on their song "Fancy Blood" on the album of the same name.

[16] His remix of The Static Age's song "Vertigo" (called "Airplanes") appeared as a bonus track on the band's album "Neon Nights Electric Lives.

[17] In 2012 he remixed Swedish group Lowe's song "Mirage" from the band's latest album Evolver.

Gibson appears in the poem in the interlude of "...But Home Is Nowhere" full-length album version Sing the Sorrow.

With straight As throughout his K-12 career, Puget dropped out of school at the age of 17[citation needed] and continued his education at UC Berkeley, where he received a bachelor's degree in sociology in 1996.