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The Haunted
The Haunted


4.5
superb

Review

by Jesus4Hire USER (1 Reviews)
December 5th, 2005 | 20 replies


Release Date: 1998 | Tracklist


<font size="2"><p>Pardon me if this is a bit choppy and awkward but it's my first review and i'm still trying to get a feel for the formating of it.&nbsp;</p><p>As debatable as it may be; I would just like to start off by saying in my personal opinion this is by far the Haunted&rsquo;s best release. It&rsquo;s obvious that these guys are passionate about what they do and that they wanna get it right the first time. Though not quite as melodic as their other albums this is by far the most brutal of them all. It&rsquo;s one long strain of anger and obscenities. From start to finish it never lets you off the edge of your seat as the thrashing just doesn&rsquo;t end. </p><p>Musically it is entirely driven off of varying high speed tempos and awkward palm muting rhythms but somehow they pull it off. The guitarists do a great job of feeding off of each other with them both essentially performing dueling lead lines. The guitars are blazingly fast and at times melodic and epic with constantly varying verse and chorus riffs. They sound much like At The Gates but on speed and having roid rage (not surprising as this band is the bastard child of At The Gates). The only bad thing about the guitar work though is that since the verse and chorus guitar lines are so intense and involved there are a lack of solos, granted they are still there but they&rsquo;re very rare. </p><p>The vocal department is weird yet good. Peter Dolving can scream with the best of them with a nice metal scream yet he still has some punk overtones, a rather nice yet weird mixture. Dolving&rsquo;s voice really brings it to life though. His scream has an intensity and controlled pitch/tone&nbsp;to it that&rsquo;s hard to be matched by many vocalists nowadays. Lyrically though this album is good but not necessarily great. I mean, don&rsquo;t get me wrong it has some amazing lines but there&rsquo;s only so much you can say about killing people and fighting off social injustice in the form of a zombie. Some of the amazing lines he pulls out though are:</p><p>A candle it flickers before my eyes.<br />I feel so at ease as I start to realize.<br />No more frustration as the thought frees my mind.<br />I blow out the candle, one last good bye...<br />-In Vein</p><p>You ***ing maggots,<br />don't crawl for me I'm not your friend.<br />Spare me your bull***,<br />you animals with human eyes.<br />-Choke Hold</p><p>Crowbar my tool of trade.<br />Duct-tape and a six inch switchblade.<br />My love is a Stanley-knife.<br />My love is the fear in your eyes.<br />-Bullet Hole</p><p>Overall this is a great release. It&rsquo;s fast, intense, brutal, and memorable. This isn&rsquo;t like most of the other garbage being put out today where you listen to it once for novelty and then put it away with the rest of your CDs that you listened to once and forgot about. It&rsquo;s full of intricate moments and if you&rsquo;re a musician I garuntee you that you&rsquo;ll look at their playing in awe and respect how basic yet intricate their playing is. If you like any kind of thrash you&rsquo;ll like this, if you like death metal you&rsquo;ll love it, if you like melodic metal it&rsquo;s got just enough melody and harmonies enough to keep you interested, all round this is just a great album and I can&rsquo;t think of any better way to put it.</p></font>


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3.5
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somberlain (2.5)
From the ashes of At the Gates rises a completely different sounding band...



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canadapantsman
January 16th 2006


236 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

fix your paragraphs plz

Tyler
Emeritus
February 3rd 2006


7927 Comments


Yeah, fix the formatting and the paragraphs, until then I guarantee nobody will read this.

Dethtrasher
February 3rd 2006


2211 Comments


Worst job I've seen yet, you better fix this soon.

CerberusLives
September 1st 2009


52 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Forensick kicks so much fuckin' ass, it's not even funny.

BallsToTheWall
September 19th 2009


51592 Comments


....................................

Digging: Fulci - Tropical Sun

Observer
Emeritus
September 19th 2009


9453 Comments


work of art really

XingKing
March 14th 2013


16199 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Robb Flynn of Machine Head fame listed this as one of his favorite thrash albums of all time. This pleases me

InFlamesWeThrash666
August 22nd 2014


10584 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

best review ever

R6Rider
August 22nd 2014


5282 Comments


Holy paragraph Bat Man.

SharkTooth
January 6th 2015


14937 Comments


looks like whoever wrote this never bothered to check his/her criticism and disappeared off the face of the earth

R.I.P. Jesus4hire

TheSonomaDude
January 6th 2015


9206 Comments


Indeed, RiP

SPRFanOf5H
January 6th 2015


874 Comments


Wow. This is really fucking bad. So many errors, what was all the formatting stuff for?

RIP Jesus!

InFlamesWeThrash666
January 16th 2016


10584 Comments

Album Rating: 3.5

Future pliz

linguist2011
January 3rd 2017


2656 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

I understand bands can have humble beginnings, but this really is one of the most stale and average melodic thrash debuts I've ever heard. Some of the guitar work here and there demonstrates moments of greatness, but when the songwriting is so predictable and lifeless, such instrumental aspects don't really matter. At a stretch I'd say the album's first few tracks are the best, but that's not saying much given they do practically the same thing as the rest of the album.

Digging: Black Curse - Burning in Celestial Poison

RippingCorpse1986
April 22nd 2018


3229 Comments


You know you did a very bad review when even Dethtrasher says it sucks.

P0laris
May 4th 2018


383 Comments


Pardon me if this is comment is a bit choppy and awkward but it's my 320th comment and i'm still trying to get a feel for the formating of it. As

RippingCorpse1986
May 5th 2018


3229 Comments


Lol this review.

Maco097
July 13th 2018


3343 Comments


Good band

Source
July 22nd 2019


19917 Comments

Album Rating: 2.0

Agreed

DungeonBoy
August 24th 2022


9945 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Save a couple tracks, this album is a ripper from start to finish. Probably still up there with my favorite of theirs, alongside the Dead Eye and rEVOLVEr. Never really liked the Aro stuff as much, even though The Haunted Made Me Do It is a pretty killer record. I know this will get dunked on, but this album was a very important part of my musical upbringing and I still absolutely love Dolving's vocals.



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