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Chiodos
Perhaps no one can explain the sheer ferocity and timid quietness it is better than when vocalist Craig Owens says “we don’t want to let the kids down” when discussing the group’s intense vocals live at shows. Well they never let a single kid down with their vicious assault on the ears and grip on the jugular...
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Smother Magazine Band Spotlight: Haunted
In these days of such ubiquitous member-shared bands making second rate music, The Haunted are a welcome change. Featuring ex-At The Gates brothers Anders and Jonas Bjorler and Adrian Erlandsson, Séance's Jensen, and Peter Dolving of Mary Beats Jane, The Haunted have the Metal veteranship necessary for a great band. They formed initially without Dolving, but in their search for a singer, his performance immediately convinced them this was the man for the job [see Smother's interview with Jensen]. Their 1998 Earache self-titled debut album stands up to the test. Speed and amazing riffery without overblown melodies carry Dolving's unadulterated throat wrenches across a super sonic blast of skin-pounding fury. The fury is a volatile one—the kind that makes a lethal transfer from album to stage. Look out for a tentative tour the first half of 1999, but take Jensen's advice, "It might be lethal." Throwing tons of stunning Thrash at the listener, The Haunted assert themselves as experts in a newer kind of Metal. A kind of Metal that I hope is the future of the most holy of genres.
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