The Haunted was badly hurt when vocalist Peter Dolving, drummer Per Möller Jensen, and guitarist Anders Björler left in the space of just a few months. But the wound had appeared even sooner than that, with the commercial failure of their album Unseen (2011). In the following interview, guitarist and founding member Patrik Jensen confesses: “We really tried to do our own thing and it didn’t work”, probably because of a “the metal scene that is very narrow sighted”. The band was commercially stuck in a small box, which, according to Jensen, must have created frustration and eventually led to the split.
But The Haunted have come back from the ashes, and adapted so its members no longer have to rely on only one band to make a living. They’re now back with a new, aptly-titled album, Exit Wounds, and a new line-up. Or maybe not that new, since the band welcomes back their first drummer and their second singer.
We talked with Jensen about all this, from the departures, their circumstances, and the replacements, to the music itself. This highly instructive interview clearly highlights the difficulties a band can have along the way, no matter how established it is. But although the guitarist remains pessimistic regarding the music industry, he underlines how strong a motivator the love of music can be.
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