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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
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Malcolm Dome

“It was a dig at those people who did crazy, horrific things, and then tried to blame metal bands”: how The Haunted rose above the chaos to make a cult 21st century metal classic with Made Me Do It

The Haunted in 2001.

Formed in Sweden in the late 1990s from the ashes of At The Gates, The Haunted bridged the worlds of 1990s melodeath and 80s thrash/hardcore. Their second album, 2000’s Made Me Do It, pushed them to the forefront of the Scandinavian metal scene. In 2007, guitarists Patrick Jensen and Anders Björler (who left The Haunted in 2012), talked Metal Hammer through the chaotic making of a 21st century classic.


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