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Revolver (The Haunted album)

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Released
  
18 October 2004

Revolver (2004)
  
The Dead Eye (2006)

Release date
  
18 October 2004

Label
  
Century Media Records

Length
  
47:11

Artist
  
The Haunted

Producer
  
Fredrik Nordström

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Recorded
  
February–March 2004 (Studio Fredman)

Genres
  
Thrash metal, Melodic death metal, Groove metal, Metalcore

Similar
  
The Haunted albums, Melodic death metal albums

Revolver (stylized as rEVOLVEr) is the fourth studio album by The Haunted. It was released on 18 October 2004.

Contents

After having been absent for the last two studio albums, Peter Dolving was once again back in the band and provided the vocals for rEVOLVEr. He would remain with the band until he left once again in 2012.

As the album title attempts to make clear with its stylization (i.e. with the word "EVOLVE" printed in upper case letters between the two r's), the band made a conscious decision to slightly tweak ( or "evolve") its songwriting on this particular album. As a result, rEVOLVEr contains some elements that were hitherto absent on previous The Haunted albums. Although the album still contains examples of the band's familiar thrash metal sound (e.g. No Compromise, Sabotage, Sweet Relief), it features considerably more mid-paced riffing (e.g. 99, Burnt to a Shell, Fire Alive) than in any of their previous albums. Two of the tracks even have ballad elements interspersed in them (Abysmal and My Shadow). Also notable is that rEVOLVEr has quite a few instances of clean singing in it, although the vast majority of the vocal tracking was still done in The Haunted's traditional hardcore/metalcore style of screaming.

A limited edition digipak of this CD contained two bonus tracks, and different artwork.

A music video was made for "No Compromise" which featured Mark Greenway.

The haunted no compromise


Track listing

  • The limited edition of the album contains the bonus tracks "Fire Alive" and "Smut King" at tracks 11 and 12, respectively. "My Shadow" was moved to track 13.
  • The Japanese release contains the bonus track "Out of Reach" at track 9, respectively. "Nothing Right" was moved to track 10. The bonus track "Smut King" is not on this edition. However, "Fire Alive" still remains at track 11, therefore keeping the album at 13 tracks.
  • Personnel

  • Peter Dolving - vocals
  • Anders Björler - lead guitar
  • Jonas Björler - bass guitar & backing vocalist
  • Patrik Jensen - rhythm guitar
  • Per Möller Jensen - drums
  • Guest
  • Lou Koller (Sick of It All) - co-vocals on "Who Will Decide"
  • Songs

    1No Compromise3:44
    2993:59
    3Abysmal4:51

    References

    Revolver (The Haunted album) Wikipedia