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The second album from the
Swedish band The Haunted, built in the ashes of the great At The Gates,
contains close to 40 minutes of murderous death metal. The music is very
melodic and similar to other Swedish bands like In Flames and Dark
Tranquillity but a little thrashier and more aggressive. The Björler brothers
manage to keep the At The Gates sound alive and this album is even better than
all ATG albums. The growling vocals are still there but they are a little
darker and cleaner done by Marco Aro who sounds more like Mikael Åkerblad of
Opeth than Tomas Lindberg of At The Gates. The quality of Swedish metal is
still very high as shown by this release and The Haunted is one of the really
big death/thrash bands today among others like In Flames, Cannibal Corpse and
Morbid Angel. The music is very melodic, fast and aggressive like At The Gates
once were and hopefully we will see more albums from this band in the future.
As usual with Swedish productions you can not complain about the sound quality
which is close to perfect. The album was recorded at Berno Studio, Malmö,
between Dec. 1999 and Feb. 2000, engineered by Berno Paulsson, mastered by
Göran Finnberg at The Mastering Room. The cover artwork was done by Andreas
"Diaz" Pettersson. Great work!
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1. Dark |
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Intentions' 2. Bury Your Dead 3. Trespass 4. Leech |
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5. Hollow Ground 6. Revelation 7. The World Burns 8. |
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Human Debris 9. Silencer 10. Under The Surface 11. Victim |
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Iced |
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