Photo by Linda Florin
Swedish deadly thrash metal purveyors THE HAUNTED are back with a bang! Following eight long years since the release of 2017’s much acclaimed studio album, ‘Strength in Numbers,’ THE HAUNTED is now pleased to announce its 10th studio album, ‘Songs of Last Resort,’ which will be released worldwide on May 30, 2025 via longtime partners Century Media Records.
To celebrate the release, the band is now unleashing the pummeling first single, “Warhead,” along with a video, which was directed by Patric Ullaeus (In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, etc.).
Vocalist Marco Aro comments on the song, “This is the first single of our new album, ‘Songs of Last Resort.’ The song is called ‘Warhead’ and it’s an aggressive statement about the absolute horrors of the world we now have to live in!”
Guitarist Jensen adds, “When writing this song, I knew that we were on to writing a good album. The main riff came to me at work, and I had to take the afternoon off that day to immediately get it recorded and worked on while the inspiration from this one riff was still creating goosebumps. Lyrics are about various people in charge being ‘warheads,’ thriving in one way or another off of waging war. The intro sound FX were created together with Örjan Örnkloo (ex-Misery Loves Company, who also performs on ‘To Bleed Out’ and the title track ‘Letters of Last Resort’). I think it’s not a stretch to say that this song stand a real chance of becoming a fixture of our live set for many years to come…”
