[Cover photo credit to Linda Florin]
Swedish Thrash Metal band The Haunted are back with an album announcements, following eight years since their previous studio album, Strength In Numbers. Their new album, titled Songs of Last Resort, is set to be released worldwide on May 30th, 2025 via Century Media Records.
With music recorded by Oscar Nilsson at Studio Bohus, main vocals recorded by Björn Strid at The Cellar Studio, Songs of Last Resort was then mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Kreator, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, etc).
Artwork was once again provided by longtime visual collaborator Andreas “Diaz” Pettersson.
The band have also released first single and video from the album, “Warhead”. The video was directed by Patric Ullaeus / http://www.rEvolver.se (In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, etc.).
Vocalist Marco Aro says about the song:
This is the first single of our new album “Songs of Last Resort”. The song is called “Warhead” and it‘s an aggressive statement about the absolute horrors of the world we now have to live in!
Guitarist Jensen adds about the single:
When writing this song, I knew that we were on to writing a good album. The main riff came to me at work, and I had to take the afternoon off that day to immediately get it recorded and worked on while the inspiration from this one riff was still creating goosebumps. Lyrics are about various people in charge being “war heads”, thriving in one way or another off of waging war. The intro sound fx were created together with Örjan Örnkloo (ex Misery Loves Company, who also performs on ’To Bleed Out‘ and the title track ’Letters of Last Resort‘). I think it‘s not a stretch to say that this song stand a real chance of becoming a fixture of our live set for many years to come…
THE HAUNTED – Live:
06.06.2025 Reichenbach (Germany) – Chronical Moshers Open Air
05.07.2025 Kalmar (Sweden) – Metal Theatre
25.07.2025 Wasa (Finland) – Kaaos Festival
04.10.2025 Athens (Greece) – Gagarin 205
01.11.2025 Vara (Sweden) – Vara in Rock
07.11.2025 Umeå (Sweden) – House of Metal
09.11.2025 Manchester (UK) – Damnation Festival
More shows are yet to be announced…
