The Haunted announce new album, share first single/video and start pre-orders

Swedish deadly Thrash Metal pioneers and purveyors THE HAUNTED are back with a bang! Following eight long years since the release of their latest and much acclaimed studio album “Strength in Numbers”, THE HAUNTED are pleased to announce their upcoming, 10^th studio album entitled “Songs of Last Resort”, to be released worldwide on May 30^th, 2025 via longtime partners Century Media Records.

With music recorded by Oscar Nilsson at Studio Bohus, main vocals recorded by Björn Strid at The Cellar Studio, “Songs of Last Resort” was then mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Kreator, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, etc). Artwork was once again provided by longtime visual collaborator Andreas “Diaz” Pettersson and you can see the album’s front cover displayed above. Here is the complete standard track-listing of the upcoming album:

“Songs of Last Resort” will be available as Ltd. CD Mediabook & Poster (Incl. the bonus track “Feeding the Furnace” (02:32)), as Standard CD Jewelcase, as Digital Album and as 180g. LP & Poster in the following variants:

• Black LP & Poster (Unlimited)
• Ltd. transp. red LP & Poster (500x copies, available from www.cmdistro.de & various other retailers)
• Ltd. transp. petrol green LP & Poster (300x copies, available from various retailers in Europe)

The album’s pre-order was started here: https://the-haunted.lnk.to/SongsOfLastResort-Album

Also, a first single and video off “Songs of Last Resort” is being launched for the album’s opening track “Warhead”. Check out the video for “Warhead” directed by Patric Ullaeus / www.rEvolver.se (In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, etc.) here: https://youtu.be/itmNIR-akwk

THE HAUNTED’s vocalist Marco Aro checked in with the following comment about 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!”.

THE HAUNTED’s guitarist Jensen elaborated further about the “Warhead” single as follows: 

“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 “war heads”, 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…”.

Make sure not to miss these already confirmed upcoming live-appearances by THE HAUNTED…

THE HAUNTED – Live:
06.06.2025 Reichenbach (Germany) – Chronical Moshers Open Air
05.07.2025 Kalmar (Sweden) – Metal Theatre
25.07.2025 Wasa (Finland) – Kaaos Festival
04.10.2025 Athens (Greece) – Gagarin 205
01.11.2025 Vara (Sweden) – Vara in Rock
07.11.2025 Umeå (Sweden) – House of Metal
09.11.2025 Manchester (UK) – Damnation Festival
More shows are yet to be announced…

And stay tuned for further news on THE HAUNTED and “Songs of Last Resort” coming soon…

THE HAUNTED line-up:
(From left to right in photo by Linda Florin)
Ola Englund – rhythm & lead guitar
Jonas Björler – bass, backing vocals
Marco Aro – lead vocals
Adrian Erlandsson – drums
Jensen – rhythm guitar