THE HAUNTED preparing for Ozzfest

Swedish thrash titans THE HAUNTED are currently preparing themselves for Ozzfest, on which they’ll tour this summer in support of rEVOLVEr, their critically acclaimed new album. They will also take part in a slew of major off-dates alongside the likes of Arch Enemy, Black Dahlia Murder, Shadows Fall and It Dies Today, among others (see below for their complete summer touring schedule). This is the group’s first U.S. run since wrapping up the Devastation Across The Nation Tour alongside Damageplan and Shadows Fall last year. In addition, they recently completed a new video for “No Compromise” with acclaimed director Roger Johansson (In Flames, Soilwork); look for it to make its Headbangers Ball and Metal Asylum debut this month.

Peter Dolving (vocals) further describes the band’s excitement over being a part of this year’s Ozzfest lineup: “I honestly feel a little Bart Simpson waking up alone in a mall, or a wolf realizing he for some reason is right in the middle of a sheep herd. I don’t know if that remotely illustrates the deal, but I will say this: THE HAUNTED are ready for this shit, and I hope the kids who come out to the shows are too. The last couple of months have all been about honing in further on the core of what we’re about as a band – like a Tomahawk missile closing in. This tour will crush.

“We’ve just finished a pretty boy-band video to make us ugly fuckers looking sweeter than your next-door Class A golden boy jock-meat, all to make sure that every damned household gets a sniff of the ol´riff-o-rama. All out thrash mayhem is what they asked for, and yes, that’s what we’re bringin! Oh, and you know what? Feel no shame for loving us, cause that’s just fine – we’ll bring enough hate for everyone. Over and out.”

Now four albums into the band’s stellar career, THE HAUNTED have returned with their most savage assault yet, proving that there truly is no compromise. The innovators of Swedish thrash metal deliver their most dynamic offering yet, and they are ready to lay waste to anything that stands in their way.

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