THE HAUNTED ARE COLOSALLY MORONIC
Wednesday, August 13th, 2008 at 1:31pm by Axl Rosenberg
That’s actually a really misleading headline – I mean, we love The Haunted here at MetalSucks, and we’ve heard their new album, Versus, and it’s fucking great. Seriously. I’m sure we’ll do a full review at some point or another, but in the meantime, you should know that Versus is fucking great.
You can get your first taste of Versus by heading over to The Haunted’s MySpace page, where they’re currently streaming the new song “Moronic Colossus” (hence my stoopid headline). Don’t let the ho-hum cover art fool you: the song is worth your time, we promise.
Versus gets released on Century at various points throughout mid to late September. In this day and age of rampant illegal downloading, I never really understand why albums ever get released on different days in different territories, but I’m sure the record company folk have their reasons.
And, hey, while you’re waiting for this lil’ gem to drop, why doncha read the awesome guest blog The Haunted vocalist Peter Dolving wrote for us?
-AR
Badass. I’ve always been impressed by The Haunted’s ability to stick to a formula, progress, and stay relevant all at the same time.
It’s nice to see they went in the same direction on their artwork too. I’ve always enjoyed the fact that they don’t need a picture of a minotaur in chain mail and a viking helmet drinking the blood of an infant on their cover to try to get people to listen to their album. They do that by consistently making good music. Maybe other bands should take some notes on that.
Their cover art is always abysmal.
More blogs by Peter Dolving please.
Agreed.Dolving blogs are awesome because the guy can rant psychotically but still comes off comprehensible.And The Haunted are one of the better underrated bands in metal today.They have managed to find a sound that is generally their own and work it/build upon it so that each new record satisfies you without sounding like the last one, which as time has told, really is a feat in this genre.Considering you guys already have Versus means I need to start keeping my ear to the ground for the leak.I’ve been itching to hear it since April back when they said it was done but wouldn’t be released until after the At the Gates tour.Patience is way overrated.
They sound bored.
i’ve never sat down and listened to these guys but i really like them.
Just listened to the new song. It f’in rocks! Sounds like Versus is picking up right where The Dead Eye left off and unlike some other bands, that’s a good thing. Can’t wait to hear the whole thing.