The Haunted Premiere New Single & Music Video "Warhead" From Upcoming New Album "Songs of Last Resort"

Swedish metal veterans The Haunted have made their long-awaited return with their first new music since 2017. Released online today (March 21st) and streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below, their latest single, "Warhead," is set to feature on their newly announced tenth studio album, Songs of Last Resort. The album is slated for release on May 30th via Century Media.

Recording for the album took place at Studio Bohus in Kungälv, Sweden, with Oscar Nilsson (The Halo Effect, Mustasch) handling production for the instrumentals. Vocal tracking was overseen by Soilwork frontman Björn “Speed” Strid at The Cellar Studio, while mixing and mastering duties were handled by Jens Bogren (Behemoth, Opeth).

Additionally, Patric Ullaeus (In Flames, Arch Enemy) directed the newly released music video for "Warhead."

Speaking about the track, frontman Marco Aro shared:

“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!”

Adds guitarist Patrik Jensen:

“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…”

“Songs Of Last Resort” track-list:

01 – “Warhead”
02 – “In Fire Reborn”
03 – “Death To The Crown”
04 – “To Bleed Out”
05 – “Unbound”
06 – “Hell Is Wasted On The Dead”
07 – “Through The Fire”
08 – “Collateral Carnage”
09 – “Blood Clots”
10 – “Salvation Recalled”
11 – “Labyrinth Of Lies”
12 – “Letters Of Last Resort”

The band's upcoming live schedule includes the following dates:

06/06 Reichenbach, GER – Chronical Moshers Open Air
07/05 Kalmar, SWE – MEtal Theatre
07/23 Wasa, FIN – Kaaos Festival
10/04 Athens, GRE – Gagarin 205
11/01 Vara, SWE – Vara In Rock
11/07 Umea, SWE – House Of Metal
11/09 Manchester, UK – Damnation Festival