The Afters is an American Christian rock band founded by Josh Havens and Matt Fuqua.

Havens and Fuqua first worked together in a Starbucks coffee shop in Mesquite, Texas, where they performed songs for customers before deciding to form a band.

[1] As a precursor to Blisse, Josh performed several shows around Dallas with his band The Screaming Mimes which included Charlton Parker, who later formed Deaf Pedestrians, and Hans Grumbein.

While Brad was a founding member of Blisse, he took time away from the band to perform with his own blues project, playing lead guitar.

The first single from the album was "Beautiful Love", written by Josh Havens about a time when his wife was abroad doing humanitarian aid.

In addition, "Beautiful Love" became the theme song for the MTV show, 8th and Ocean about the careers of female and male fashion models living in Miami.

In an update posted on their official website, the band went into the studio in August 2006 to begin recording their second album, Never Going Back to OK.

[8] In January 2011 The Afters joined the Rock And Worship Roadshow national tour headlined by MercyMe.

A month later, they released a new single entitled "Life is Beautiful" on iTunes; the song was part of the soundtrack for the movie October Baby.