Check out this flash movie teaser with a clip from The Haunted's current record sessions: http://lagavulin.gotdns.com/mov/flik.html

The Haunted will tour the UK with Funeral for a Friend in May:

05/02 - Barrowlands, Glasgow
05/04 - Town Hall, Middlesborough
05/05 - Civic Hall, Wolverhampton
05/06 - Forum, London
05/08 - City Live Arena, Newport

Also in the works from Earache is a limited edition reissue of The Haunted's last album "One Kill Wonder" which will include three bonus tracks recorded during the same original sessions:

01. Creed
02. Ritual
03. Well Of Souls (Candlemass cover)

It should hit stores on April 20.

Some new pics of The Haunted in the studio: http://www.the-haunted.com/doc/studio_report.htm

The Haunted have updated with a short report and some pics from the studio where they are tracking their fourth album: http://www.cyklode.com/haunted/doc/studio_report.htm
Lou from the famous NYC hardcore band Sick of it All stopped by and laid down some guest vocals on the track "Who will decide?".

The Haunted have announced that "Subliminal Messages of Suicide Promotion" from fan Conner Tadena was the winning entry in their album title competition. They won't be using for the new record, but it may turn up at some point in the future.

The readers of Sweden's Close-Up Magazine voted The Haunted's "One Kill Wonder" as the #1 album of the year.

The winners of the Swedish Grammies for award categories I care about:

Best artist: Per Gessle - Mazarin
Best song: Per Gessle - Här kommer alla känslorna (på en och samma gång)
Best pop, female: Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater
Best pop, male: Per Gessle - Mazarin
Best popgroup: The Knife - Deep cuts
Best rock album, solo: Moneybrother - Blood panic
Best rock group: The Cardigans - Lone gone before daylight
Best composer: Per Gessle
Best lyrics: Timbuktu
Best producer: Joakim Berg and Simon Nordberg
Best newcomer: José González - Veneer
Best album: The Cardigans - Lone gone before daylight
Best folk music: Frifot - Sluring
Best hiphop/soul: Timbuktu - The botten is nådd!
Best hard-rock: The Haunted - One kill wonder
Best jazz: Esbjörn Svensson Trio - Seven days of falling
Best club/dance: Hundarna från Söder - Hundarna från Söder
Best open category: Pugh Rogefeldt - Pugh
MTV prize for best video: The Cardigans - You're the storm
Export prize: Esbjörn Svensson Trio

Read more: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/noje/story/0,2789,430898,00.html (in Swedish)
Who's got pics of The Knife accepting the award in gorilla masks?

The Haunted are having a contest to help determine the name of their forthcoming album. Send suggestions to haunted@cyklode.com by February 25 for your chance to win and winners will be announced on the 29th.

Excerpts from Swedish Radio program P3 Rock's top albums of the year, as voted on by listeners:

05. Entombed - Inferno
06. Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather
08. Opeth - Damnation
09. Cult of Luna - The Beyond
10. The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
12. Mustasch - Rat Safari
13. Nasum - Helvete
15. Grand Magus - Monument

The full list is here: http://www.sr.se/p3/rock/

Here are some of the nominees for the Swedish Grammies:

Best Pop Female:
Jill Johnson - Roots and Wings
Lisa Miskovsky - Fallingwater
Miss Universum - Selfelected
Pauline - Candy Rain
Elin Sigvardsson - Saturday Light Naive

Best Pop Male:
Magnus Carlson - Ett Kungarike För En Kram
Per Gessle - Mazarin
José González - Veneer
Peter LeMarc - Det Som Håller Oss Vid Liv
Mauro Scocco - Beat Hotel

Best Pop Group:
Alcazar - Alcazarized
Bo Kaspers Orkester - Vilka Tror Vi Att Vi Är
Da Buzz - More Than Alive
David & The Citizens - Until The Sadness Is Gone
The Knife - Deep Cuts

Best Rock Album (solo):
Eagle-Eye - Cherry Sub Rosa
Christian Kjellvander - Introducing The Past
Lars Winnerbäck och Hovet - Söndermarken
Moneybrother - Blood Panic
Thomas Rusiak - In The Sun

Best Rock Group:
Bad Cash Quartet - Midnight Prayer
Broder Daniel - Cruel Town
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Fireside - Get Shot
Randy - Welfare Problems

Best Songwriter:
Karin & Olof Dreijer
Per Gessle
Lisa Miskovsky & Joakim Berg
Peter Svensson
Moneybrother (Anders Wendin)

Best Lyrics:
Timbuktu (Jason Diakté)
Per Gessle
Peter LeMarc
Nina Persson
Lars Winnerbäck

Best Producer:
Joakim Berg/Simon Norberg
Karin & Olof Dreijer
Pelle Gunnerfeldt
Jari Haapalainen
C. Öfwerman, C. Lundquist & P. Gessle

Best Hip-hop/Soul:
Advance Patrol - Utskrivna
Kaah - Jideblasko
Ken Det - Bortglömda
The Latin Kings - Omerta
Timbuktu - The Botten Is Nådd!

Best Hard Rock:
Backyard Babies - Stockholm Syndrome
Evergrey - Recreation Day
The Haunted - One Kill Wonder
Mustasch - Ratsafari
Opeth - Damnation

Best Jazz:
E.S.T. - Seven Days Of Falling
Rigmor Gustavsson - with I Will Wait For You
Nils Landgren and The Fleshquartet
Jonas Kullhammar Quartet - Plays Loud For The People
Oddjob - Koyo
Bobo Stenson/Lennart Åberg

Best Club/Dance Song:
Hundarna Från Söder - Hundarna Från Söder BAM
Koop - Waltz For Koop - Alternative Takes
Physics - First Flight NSD
Plej - Electronic Music From The Westcoast
Sophie Rimheden - Hi-Fi Mitek

Best Pop/Dance Band:
Barbados - Hela Himlen
Fame - Give Me Your Love
Jan Johansen - X My Heart
Jill Johnson - Discography
Lasse Stefanz - Det Här Är Bara Början

Go here for the full list: http://www.ifpi.se/02.images/01.top/02.subnav_pdf/08.grammis/pdf/Grammisnomineringar_2003.pdf

Swedish thrashers The Haunted has booked five weeks of time at Studio Fredman for February and March to work on their next album. As mentioned before, the band is currently labeless, but I'm sure they'll figure out something and have it out by their planned summer release date.

Go here to check out top 2003 picks from various metalheads such as Michael Amott (Arch Enemy), Jonas Björler (The Haunted), Jonas Renske (Katatonia), Kenny R2D2 (...And Oceans) and tons more (incl. a number of hasbeen 80s rockers): http://whiplash.net/forceframe.html?/especiallist.mv?rec=416

Via Blabbermouth comes this summation of recent message board postings from The Haunted frontman Peter Dolving on progress with the band's new album.

Here's another new interview with members of The Haunted discussing the return of original vocalist Peter Dolving. Peter's take on the situation:

It's simple. I'm a musician, hence it's my job. I also love The Haunted and we get along really well. The Haunted work hard, like any successful band. It's a really good job, doing what you love with people you really like and love working with. But it's hard as hell, it fucks with everything you could consider being a normal life. Marco wanted out. They asked me. I've been busy realizing loads of my dreams, artistic and academic ambitions these last couple of years living off breadcrumbs and going back to sleeping on stage floors and squats to do it. I'm really glad I did cause I needed it for my mental well-being. But when Jensen called me I nearly shit myself, `cause I never ever thought the opportunity would arise again. Basically he told me about their situation with Marco, and that the band has a large audience and can make a living out of it. AND that Earache is out. Would you say no to that? What I don't think a lot of kids don't understand is why I left the band in the first place. One of the reasons being Earache. Another reason was financially, I was completely fucking broke and I had to work something out to put food on the table, which I did starting my own label and UNION (www.unionmusik.com) which is a syndicalist label/management/booking company for reeaally different music. Also back then I had just met my girlfriend and now mother of our two kids and that whole thing was so new and fragile that I didn't want to fuck that up. So I left, knowing I might never get back, but that I had to do what I had to do. Honestly though, I'm really happy to be back.

They also talk a bit about the band's songwriting process, how things are going for the new record (4 or 5 songs are written) and Jensen's plans for his other band Witchery. Read the rest: www.metal-rules.com/interviews/TheHaunted-Oct2003.htm