Road Kill

Time to feature another band that I featured a few years back. And yes it's some more Thrash Metal. The Haunted have been forging ahead wit their take on The Gothenburg Sound for over two decades now. The band did release an early Live record entitled 'Live Rounds In Tokyo' that was originally released only in Japan before before repackaged stateside with their second album 'Made Me Do It'. The band went through a few vocalist shifts before releasing 2010's 'Roadkill'. 

'Roadkill' was recorded at The Melkweg in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on February 13, 2009. The album here features the original 16 song set with 5 extra bonus studio tracks. The band at this time was riding high with the success of the reunion with original vocalist Peter Dolving. Dolving gives it everything on this record. I mean nothing against the band, who amongst it's lineup has members who played in one of the most influential Swedish Metal bands, At The Gates. But this album is nothing without an amazing frontman. Open to close this is just in your face, get up and thrash metal.

Sadly the band only released one more album with Dolving before he and two other members of the band split in '12. The last effort with Dolving, 'Unseen' was seen as a huge departure from the bands sound. The album wasn't well received and the proverbial backlash ensued. The band went into a hiatus status for a bit before reuniting with second vocalist Marco Aro and original drummer Adrian Erlandsson. The band has since released a new album 'Exit Wounds' that picks up musically where the band was when Aro left.

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