Swedish deadly Thrash Metal pioneers and purveyors, THE HAUNTED, are back with a bang! Following eight long years since the release of their latest studio album, Strength In Numbers, THE HAUNTED are pleased to announce their upcoming, 10th studio album, entitled “Songs Of Last Resort”, to be released worldwide on May 30, 2025 via long time partners Century Media Records.

With music recorded by Oscar Nilsson at Studio Bohus, main vocals recorded by Björn Strid at The Cellar Studio, “Songs Of Last Resort” was then mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Kreator, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, etc). Artwork was once again provided by longtime visual collaborator Andreas “Diaz” Pettersson.

Also today, a first single and video off “Songs Of Last Resort” is being launched, for the album’s opening track “Warhead”. Check out the video for “Warhead”, directed by Patric Ullaeus / www.rEvolver.se (In Flames, Arch Enemy, Dimmu Borgir, etc.), below.

You can see and listen to THE HAUNTED’s dynamic return, at the video below:

THE HAUNTED’s vocalist Marco Aro checked in with the following comment about the song:

“This is the first single of our new album Songs Of Last Resort. The song is called ‘Warhead’ and it’s an aggressive statement about the absolute horrors of the world we now have to live in!”

THE HAUNTED’s guitarist Jensen elaborated further about the “Warhead” single as follows:

“When writing this song, I knew that we were on to writing a good album. The main riff came to me at work, and I had to take the afternoon off that day to immediately get it recorded and worked on while the inspiration from this one riff was still creating goosebumps. Lyrics are about various people in charge being “war heads”, thriving in one way or another off of waging war. The intro sound fx were created together with Örjan Örnkloo (ex Misery Loves Company, who also performs on ‘To Bleed Out’ and the title track ‘Letters Of Last Resort’). I think it’s not a stretch to say that this song stand a real chance of becoming a fixture of our live set for many years to come…”