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about|the Swedish metal band|the 1960s Canadian band|The Haunted (Canadian band)|other uses|Haunted (disambiguation)Infobox musical artist| name = The Haunted| image = The Haunted Karlstad.jpg| caption = The Haunted performing live in Karlstad in October 2007| image_size = 250| landscape = yes| background = group_or_band| years_active = 1996–present| origin = Gothenburg , Sweden | genre = groove metal , melodic death metal , thrash metal | label = Century Media Records|Century Media , Earache Records|Earache | current_members = The Haunted#Members|(see below) | associated_acts = At the Gates , Face Down (band)|Face Down , Witchery , Dissection (band)|Dissection , The Crown (band)|The Crown , Nightrage , Mary Beats Jane , BringTheWarHome, Seance (band)|Seance , Arch Enemy | website = URL| http://www.the-haunted.com The Haunted is a Swedish people|Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg , formed in 1996. The original members were Anders Björler|Anders & Jonas Björler , Peter Dolving , Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen . Both of the Björler brothers and Erlandsson were members of the seminal melodic death metal band At the Gates , a pioneering force in the Swedish death metal scene.
All members, past and present, are from Gothenburg, Sweden; with the exception of Patrik Jensen, who is from Linköping ; Per Möller Jensen , who is from Denmark ; Adrian Erlandsson, who is from Malmö; and Marco Aro, who is from Finland .
The band released their first album, while signed to Earache Records , the selftitled debut The Haunted (album)|The Haunted , in 1998. Before this, they had also made their demo (music)|demo , called ''Demo '97 , in 1997. The album resulted in The Haunted being praised as Newcomer of the Year by several magazines, and the album being called Album of the Year by Terrorizer Magazine . The Haunted made a respectable live reputation staging the Sweden|Swedish Heavy metal music|metal scene, as well the international scene, touring the United Kingdom|U.K. with Napalm Death .
After the release of this album, Peter Dolving and Adrian Erlandsson both left the band in 1999, the latter joining Cradle of Filth . Their replacements were Marco Aro and Per Möller Jensen. The band began to record their second album right after.
Made Me Do It (2000 & ndash; 2003)
Their second album, Made Me Do It , released in 2000, was more melodic and resembled the Gothenburg metal|Gothenburg style (with bands such as At the Gates , etc.) more than old-school thrash metal that was used on The Haunted . It is originally called Made Me Do It , but it is meant for the band name to be included in the title. " The Haunted Made Me Do It " topped College Music Journal|CMJ Loud Rock Radio Chart in four weeks, and won a Grammis|Swedish Grammy for Best Hard Rock Album . The album was followed by European tours with Entombed (band)|Entombed and Nile (band)|Nile , The Crown (band)|The Crown in U.K., and In Flames in Japan . The Haunted played on festivals such as 2000 Decibel , Hultsfred (both in Sweden), Graspop ( Belgium ), and Wacken Open Air ( Germany ). The band subsequently released their first live album - Live Rounds in Tokyo .cite web|url= http://the-haunted.com/site/? p=albums& id=03 |title=No false pride, no fashion, no fake set of values |publisher=The Haunted |date= |accessdate=2011-07-03
In August 2001, guitarist / songwriter Anders Björler left the band and he was temporarily replaced by Marcus Sunesson of The Crown (band)|The Crown for The Haunted's headlining tour; in less than a year Björler returned to the band. This meant that he could appear on the third studio album.
One Kill Wonder (2003 & ndash; 2004)
The next album was released in February 2003 and was titled One Kill Wonder .cite web|url= http://the-haunted.com/site/? p=albums& id=04 |title=No false pride, no fashion, no fake set of values |publisher=The Haunted |date= |accessdate=2011-07-03 The Haunted broke their own record being listed at number one on CMJ Loud Rock Radio Chart in five weeks. Alternative Press hailed The Haunted as one of metal's 25 most important bands. The album resulted in The Haunted dominating album charts all over the world, and their first tours to Australia and South Africa , another tour to Japan , and a second Grammy . After another tour to Scandinavia , North America , United Kingdom and Europe in the fall of 2003, the sudden departure of Marco Aro came as a shock. Though, this opened a new chance of building up a reunion with former vocalist Peter Dolving .
The song D.O.A. , from this album, became available for download in March 2008 for the video game Rock Band (video game)|Rock Band , on the Xbox 360 's Xbox Live Marketplace , and the PlayStation 3 's PlayStation Network .cite web|url= http://www.rockband.com/forums/showthread.php? t=35505 |title= DLC Week of 3/18 |accessdate=2008-03-17 |publisher=Harmonix Another song from the same album, Shadow World , was announced as a future download.
Their first album with Peter Dolving back at the helm (and signed by a new deal with Century Media ), was entitled Revolver (The Haunted album)|Revolver . The new album was released in October 2004 and named as it was to convey the evolution of the band and the music it plays as a whole. Revolver was met with a fair amount of fan support and critical acclaim, and the band toured the world extensively in support of it, including a second stage spot at Ozzfest 2005. On February 2 of 2005, Marco Aro played his last show in Stockholm, Sweden but as a guest singer. In 2006, the band performed on the Extreme The Dojo vol.15 tour in Japan with Exodus (band)|Exodus and Nile band|Nile , while Edge of Spirit (band)|Edge of Spirit opened for them.cite news|url= http://www.earache.com/bands/haunted/haunted.html|title=Earache Records|accessdate=2009-08-10
The Haunted's fifth studio album, The DeadEye , was released on October 30, 2006 in Europe and so far has been a huge success, showing a more sinister side to Dolving's vocals and a more technical, haunting musical display. It was released in the USA on October 31, 2006.cite web|url= http://www2.centurymedia.com/index.aspx? page=news& id_artist=121#1965 |title=THE HAUNTED - Reveal new album title; celebrate 10th anniversary& #33; |accessdate=2006-08-30 |publisher=Century Media Records They later toured Europe and toured with Dark Tranquillity , Into Eternity (band)|Into Eternity , and Scar Symmetry for the North America Metal For The Masses tour. http://www.centurymedia.com/us/news.php? artist_ID=22& x=53& y=7 Century Media Records They recently toured Europe for the Cursed Earth tour with bands like Wolf (band)|Wolf , Municipal Waste , and Lyzanxia and took a break to later return to play in tours and some shows in Russia . http://cyklode.se/haunted/doc/giglist.htmdead link|date=July 2011 http://cyklode.se/haunted/doc/tour.htmdead link|date=July 2011
Their sixth studio album, Versus (The Haunted album)|Versus , was released on September 17, 2008, in Sweden, September 19- September 24|24 in the rest of Europe, and October 14 in the USA. In 2009 the band released Warning Shots
In April 2010, the band released a live CD called Road Kill (The Haunted album)|Road Kill , and they supported heavy metal legends Slayer on their August 2010 tour. The band was also confirmed as being part of the soundtrack for Namco Bandai Games ' 2010 remake of Splatterhouse (2010 video game)|Splatterhouse .cite web |url= http://www.gamepron.com/news/2010/10/11/splatterhouse-sound/|title=Splatterhousewww.gamepron.com/news/2010/10/11/splatterhouse-soundtrack-is-suitably-scary/ |title=Splatterhouse soundtrack is suitably scary |publisher=GamePron |last=Citizen |first=Jessica |date=2010-10-11 |accessdate=2010-10-11
In April, 2010, Dolving revealed that they had started writing new material,cite web|url= http://squatneysteel.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/interview-peter-dolving|title=Interview: Peter Dolving and the recording of a seventh album started in the same fall. On December 30, the band announced that the upcoming album was to be called Unseen (album)|Unseen and released in March, 2011. http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net/news.aspx? mode=Article& newsitemID=151630 "THE HAUNTED: New Album Title Announced". Blabbermouth. December 30, 2010.
The first sneak preview of the album was on January 22, when the band performed the song "No Ghost" at the Sveriges Radio P3|P3 Guld Gala , broadcast live on Sveriges Television|TV and Sveriges Radio|radio throughout Sweden.
On 29 February 2012, Peter Dolving quit the band again.
On May 8, 2012, it was announced that their eighth full-length album would be released in late 2012.
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