Artist: The Haunted
Title: Exit Wounds
Genre: Thrash Metal
Release Date: 22nd August 2014
Label: Century Media Records
Album Review
THE HAUNTED is a Swedish Death/ Thrash Metal band, founded in 1996. With ‘Exit Wounds’, the band has released their eighth studio record, following up on works like ‘Unseen’ (2011) and ‘Versus’ (2008). In contrast to their previous works, THE HAUNTED take on a more straight-forward and harsh approach on ‘Exit Wounds’, which most likely relates to their recent line-up changes and Marco Aro’s return at vocals. Except for some slightly melodic parts on tracks like ‘Psychonaut’ or ‘Time Will Not Heal’, the overall mood on ‘Exit Wounds’ is aggressive, harsh and monotonous. In comparison to their previous work, the band has retreated from experiments and has returned to a more basic, riff-dominated style. This is presented on 14 overall grooving and fast songs, which show rather little variation between them. Although the quality of the songs is good and fans of their early years might really appreciate their modern interpretation of rather basic Death/ Thrash Metal, a little more innovation, technical as well as structure-related experiments would have given this album a more sophisticated outcome.
Tracklist
01. 317
02. Cutting Teeth
03. My Salvation
04. Psychonaut
05. Eye of the Storm
06. Trend Killer
07. Time (Will Not Heal)
08. All I Have
09. Temptation
10. My Enemy
11. Kill the Light
12. This War
13. Infiltrator
14. Ghost in the Machine
Line-up
Marco Aro – Vocals
Jensen – Guitars
Ola Englund – Solos & Guitars
Jonas Björler – Bass
Adrian Erlandsson – Drums
Website
http://the-haunted.com / https://www.facebook.com/hauntedofficial
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 5
Sound: 7
Extras: -
Total: 6 / 10
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