The Caretaker, aka English musician Leyland Kirby, is an experimental/dark ambient/noise project inspired by the ballroom scene in The Shining (hence,, the album title Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom, yup yup.) Essentially, Kirby takes samples from old, scratchy big band jazz records, stretches and EQs the shit out of them, buries them in reverb and delay, and overlays bits of harsh static and glitchy electronics, creating a distinct sense of queazy, decayed joy -- a ghost of happiness generating sounds of unsettling beauty from an almost completely forgotten past. Track listing: 1.
The Haunted Ballroom 2. By the Seaside 3. One Thousand Memories 4. Haunting Me 5. A Summer Romance 6. Den of Iniquity 7.
The Haunted, an album by the Swedish band The Haunted, 1998; Haunted, an extended play by Lalaine, or the title song, 2004; Songs 'Haunted.
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Dream Waltz 8. A Handful of Stars 9. Request Dance 10.
In the Dark 11. Reckless Night 12. Thronged with Ghosts 13. From Out of Nowhere 14. Friends Past Reunited 15. You and the Night 16. Moonlight Serenade 17.
Disillusioned 18. The Revolving Bandstand 19. Garden of Weeds 20. 'Excuse Me' for Ladies 21. In Days of Old 22. September 1939 23. The Haunted Ballroom 25.
Versus is the 6th full-length studio album by Swedish thrash metal act The Haunted. After the brilliance of rEVOLVEr (2004) I was slightly disappointed with The Dead Eye (2006) which flirted a bit too much with alternative metal for my taste. With Versus, The Haunted return a bit more to their core thrash metal sound but there are still some alternative metal elements left. Everything on the album except the vocals are recorded live in the same room which gives the album a more raw sound than the more polished predecessor much to my satisfaction.
Supposedly that´s how the debut album by The Haunted was recorded too. If you didn´t know it, I´m not sure you would notice it though. The production is actually very good.
The vocals still vary between aggressive screaming/ shouting vocals and clean vocals. I rate Versus much like I rate The Dead Eye.
It´s a great album by The Haunted, but it doesn´t reach the hights of their best efforts and therefore a 3.5 star rating is deserved. The return to a more raw sound is a step forward IMO, but they can easily take the raw approach a step further if you ask me. The Dead Eye is the 5th full-length studio album by Swedish thrash metal act The Haunted. I regard their last album rEVOLVEr (2004) as one of the best thrash metal albums released in a long time and it´s safe to say that I had gigantic expectations to how The Dead Eye would sound. Great expectations often end in great disappointments though and while I wouldn´t call the disappointment great there´s certainly a feeling of disappointment after listening to the album.
The music on The Dead Eye is thrash metal with some melodic alternative metal leanings. Lead vocalist Peter Dolving still sounds aggressive but he has chosen to sing using his clean voice a great deal too on this album. I´m sure some fans were a bit shocked by this but for those of us who know Peter Dolving´s vocal style in his days with Mary Beats Jane, it doesn´t come as much of a surprise. Of course there were also clean sung parts on rEVOLVEr but this time around the clean vocals are much more dominant. Fortunately the man can actually sing. The Dead Eye contains both fierce thrash metal tracks and more melodic alternative ones and as such this is great for the variation on the album. Personally I´m not too fond of the alternative element in the sound though and I much prefer the more straight thrash metal tracks.