''Revolver'' (stylized as rEVOLVEr) is the fourth studio album by Swedish heavy metal band The Haunted.CMJ New Music Report – 2004 10 11 p49 "Singer Peter Dolving moved out of the Haunted's house in the late '90s, but came back home in 2003 — and new album rEVOLVEr marks his much-anticipated ..." It was released on 18 October 2004. After having been absent for the previous two studio albums,

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was once again back in the band and provided the vocals for ''rEVOLVEr''. He would remain with the band until he left once again in 2012. As the title on the album indicates with its stylized typography (i.e. with the word "EVOLVE" printed in upper case letters between the two lower case r's), the band made a conscious decision to tweak (or "evolve") its songwriting on this album. As a result, rEVOLVEr contains some elements that were absent on previous The Haunted albums. Although the album still contains examples of the band's familiar thrash metal sound (e.g. "No Compromise", "Sabotage", "Sweet Relief"), it features considerably more mid-paced riffing (e.g. "99", "Burnt to a Shell", "Fire Alive") than in any of their previous albums. Two of the tracks even have ballad elements interspersed in them ("Abysmal" and "My Shadow"). Also notable is that rEVOLVEr has quite a few instances of clean singing in it, although the vast majority of the vocal tracking was still done in The Haunted's traditional hardcore/

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style of screaming. A limited edition

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of this CD contained two bonus tracks, and different artwork. A music video was made for "No Compromise" which featured Barney Greenway.

Track listing

:*The limited edition of the album contains the bonus tracks "Fire Alive" and "Smut King" at tracks 11 and 12, respectively. "My Shadow" was moved to track 13. :*The Japanese release contains the bonus track "Out of Reach" at track 9, respectively. "Nothing Right" was moved to track 10. The bonus track "Smut King" is not on this edition. However, "Fire Alive" still remains at track 11, therefore keeping the album at 13 tracks.

Release history

Personnel

– vocals *

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– rhythm guitar *

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– bass, backing vocals *

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– rhythm and lead guitar *Per Möller Jensen – drums ;Guest *Lou Koller (

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) – co-vocals on "Who Will Decide"

References

{{Authority control 2004 albums The Haunted (Swedish band) albums Century Media Records albums Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström