The Haunted
| The Haunted | |
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The Haunted live in Karlstad in October 2007
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Gothenburg, Sweden |
| Genres | Thrash metal, melodic death metal, groove metal |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Labels | Century Media, Earache |
| Associated acts | At the Gates, Face Down, Witchery, Dissection, The Crown, Nightrage, Mary Beats Jane, BringTheWarHome, Seance, Engel |
| Website | www |
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The Haunted is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg formed in 1996. The original members were Anders and 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.
The majority of 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.
On 27 July 1996, Patrik Jensen co-created the band with Adrian Erlandsson, who had just become an ex-member of his former band, At the Gates, due to the bands' split up the day before. They had made their demo, called Demo '97, in 1997.
The band released their first album, while signed to Earache Records, the self-titled debut The Haunted, in 1998. 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 Swedish metal scene, as well the international scene, touring the U.K. with Napalm Death.
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