The Haunted

The Haunted are a Swedish thrash metal band withmelodic death metal influences, formed in 1996. The original members were Patrick Jensen of Witchery on guitar, Jonas Björler (bass), Adrian Erlandsson (drums), Anders Björler (guitar), all from At The Gates, and Peter Dolving (vocals). Both of the Björler brothers and Erlandsson were members of seminal melodic death metal band At the Gates, a pioneering force in the Swedish death metal scene. The current drummer is Per Möller Jensen. All members (past and present) are from Gothenburg, Sweden, with the exception of Per Möller Jensen, who is from Denmark, and Patrick Jensen, who is from Stockholm.

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Swedish - Thrash metal - Melodic death metal - 1996 - Patrick Jensen - Jonas Björler - Adrian Erlandsson - Anders Björler - At The Gates - Peter Dolving - Per Möller Jensen - Gothenburg - Denmark - Stockholm

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The Haunted combined the sounds of 1980s Bay Area thrash acts like Metallica and Forbidden, as well as Los Angeles thrash bands Slayer and Dark Angel, with the local Swedish death metal stylings of such bands as Dark Tranquillity. There were also some influences of hardcore punk rock, mainly in the vocals.

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1980s - Bay Area - Metallica - Forbidden - Los Angeles - Slayer - Dark Angel - Dark Tranquillity

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The band released their first album, The Haunted, in 1998. After the release of this album, Peter Dolving and Adrian Erlandsson both left the band, the latter joining UK black metal purveyors Cradle of Filth. Marco Aro was recruited as a new vocalist and Per Möller Jensen as drummer. Their second album The Haunted Made Me Do It, released in 2000, was more melodic and resembled the "Gothenburg" style (At the Gates, etc) more than old-school thrash and speed metal. They subsequently released their live album Live Rounds In Tokyo (2001) packaged with a reissue of The Haunted Made Me Do It. The next album was released in February of 2003 and was titled One Kill Wonder. Marco Aro left the band in the fall of 2003 and original vocalist Peter Dolving rejoined.

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The Haunted - 1998 - Peter Dolving - Adrian Erlandsson - Black metal - Cradle of Filth - Marco Aro - Per Möller Jensen - The Haunted Made Me Do It - 2000 - At the Gates - Live Rounds In Tokyo - 2001 - 2003 - One Kill Wonder

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Their newest album rEVOLVEr was released in October of 2004.

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REVOLVEr - 2004

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They have no connection with a 1960s garage rock band of the same name, from Montreal, who put out an album and several singles.

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1960s - Garage rock - Montreal

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