THE HAUNTED Frontman: 'I Am Amazed How Little Ol' Me Can Piss Off So Many Dudes'

THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving has posted the following message on his MySpace page:

"How does it feel to know it all?

"Me and the little voices in my head are wondering. What an amazing sense of security some live in. What a safe place. Where the winds never blow, and it never gets cold. Nice. I'm obviously a gay moron to miss all these wonderful hard realities, must have been misinformed somewhere along the line.

"I was thinking. Maybe I did live in a bubble all these years and it's just been a dream. Maybe I was asleep and I should wake up now allright? Maybe you could enlighten me and slander, threats and abuse can show me that I was wrong and should indeed kill myself for the pathetic loser punk complete hogwash I keep spewing over the eyes and minds of The Enlightened People.

"Yes, that must be it! I must be an idiot for thinking out loud and considering such complete nonsense like egalitarian equality and justice. Maybe if I read the important comments on internet forums another round and take it all in I can somehow get my head around the profound wisdom of the collective minds of the self-exclaimed ANONYMOUS underground metal minds par excellence.

"Clearly they are right and I'm wrong.. The proof is in the the pudding, I mean it must be? Right? I talk too much so I must be communista or an idiot, hmm maybe that was the same thing? Obviously a bigot, if nothing else I know it sounds cool so it got to mean something, right? And gay, since gayness is just so bad and terrible that gay is deffo where it's at. I mean it must be true — anomymous posters on Blabbermouth say it's so.

"Seriously... wow!

"I am amazed how little ol' me can piss off so many dudes. I take this as an indication that there is something in all this that truly needs some serious lookin' into. Really.

"Now I take it if you don't think you like me you might have some kind of relation or whatnot to what I am talking about, what I do for a living, and most probably how I look.

"But what exactly am I talking about?

"Well, for anyone who actually takes the time to read my blogs, you know I write about A. emotions B. ethics and moral philosophy. and C. political philosophy, using autobigraphical twists and allegories. Mostly I'm just on a rant, more or less serious in tone.

"One conclusion that could be drawn from how my 'critics' react, is that they might feel threatened by, in denial of, or at least alienated by these three subjects. Feelings of exclusion and alienation are all expressions of inadequacy and incompetence. In other words emotions, ethics, moral philosophy and political philosophy for some reason are alien subjects to them. And it pisses them off. They probably think I hate them. I don't.

"But what if these individuals indeed have put a great deal of thought to it?

"Naturally that raises more questions. If that is the case, what kind of sources are they relying on? Experience is one source we can most likely presume is at work. Though pure empirism is unreliable as it only presents the observator with results dependent on presumption and hopefully a parameter of comparative factors. So if we choose to accept this, what are those comparative factors? A general knowledge of psychology? Extended study of ethics and moralphilosophy? Perhaps an understanding of Bertrand Russel's theoretical logic? Maybe several years of reading Friedman, Sartre, Bukowski, Kant, Asplund, what? George Bush? Hitler? Any given 'names' of the academic community? Anywhichway — they seemingly carry what reads a fairly shallow rightwing dog-eat-dog anti-gay selfrighteous supremacist pro white male tone to them...

"Now what about my profession? Exactly what is it I do for a living?

"I admit to being a professional musician. And that I enjoy my work. I look at those two facts and it's no wonder that might sting for some folks. I gave up lifting greasy heavy machinery, welding, washing old peoples asses and cutting dead pigs into bits for this!? What a moron! No financial safety for 15 years just to make mutherfucking moolah out the ass and get hot chicks, and fame fame fame... Fucking junky rock star! Arrogant bitch I must be. Right?

"And the look!

"I guess I just look gay huh? Those guys writing know this, because I bet I look kinda like them and they have a boner for me and would all love to suck my dick?

"Maybe they're just mad at me 'cause I have kids?

"Seriously...

"Metalheads are no homogenous group of people who can be described as 'being' a certain kind of individual.

"We come from all over the world and are anything from butchers to couch potatoes, construction workers and mathematicians and we listen to all kinds of music.

"The negative comments to my blogs posted by Blabbermouth are mostly of an abusive 'school yard bully'-like character. Suggesting that whoever writes them are emotionally insecure and/or immature.

"The access to computers and internet also suggests that they come from a middleclass enviroment or possibly have internet access through school or work place.

"Generally, the average internet users are young white middle class. Considering the type of offensive language used, and the flawed arguments displayed, the comments implies flawed education, homophobia, emotional disfunction and an impaired capacity for empathy. Further reinforcing the image of disfunctional youth, lacking social and/or emotional capacity and distorted selfimage. Most likely; dysfunctional young males or sociopaths from the white middleclass. Maybe their mom and dad just never stayed home long enough to see how fucked up their kids became...

"My take on it;

"People in general are not complete fucking idiots, no matter how much some dipshits try to rationalize it to look like fact rather than opinion.

"I will continue writing my blogs and whatever things I chose to write about. I don't have the absolute truth. I have an opinion. But sure, if you want to hate me for writing my thoughts you have a lot of hating to do since I'm not the only one out there who writes blogs.

"The amount of fear that passes through the common subconsious is vast. It pisses me off and makes me sad how even people I work with get intimidated by the fact that I get such negative repsonses on things I write, in spite of the fact that there are just as many positive reactions.

"If Blabbermouth finds it interesting enough to post my blogs because it feeds on controversy, because they think my thoughts matter, or just because the band I front is reaching a level of success that qualifies my ideas as 'news' I don't know. Personally I think it's just howdy doody for them to do that, but it sucks that fear is such an issue in the world of 'officialness', but the fucking distance just grows if we let it.

"This is exactly the kind of dilemma that the song 'The Drowning' is about. How freedom of speech and expression is overshadowed by fear of repercussions and what the consequence to that is.

"Don't fucking kid yourself that we live in a free world — we don't.

"I'm not self-absorbed enough to think any positive major changes come in bursts but through tiny steps. Some of those steps are taken by flawed jokers like myself. Some by dudes who write to tell people like me to shut the fuck up. Cool thing is that I can talk right back. Not very fucking romantic but it works.

"As far as our band goes here's a simple fact. We don't agree on everything. We don't have to. My thoughts and opinions are not the collective mind of THE HAUNTED. How hard can it be to see that? We love and respect eachother and the fact that we don't have to agree on every little aspect of life. Shit, to make any group of people function the key word is always communication and cooperation and THE HAUNTED is NOT one of those bands with ONE dominant tyrant character. We are FIVE individuals with very different ways of looking at life. It's what makes us who we are.

"We enjoy it, which is the whole fucking point with being in a band.

"For the people who support and enjoy it with us..."