THE HAUNTED To Honor DIMEBAG's Memory By 'Fucking Shit Up'

December 20, 2004

After their extraordinarily successful U.S. tour with DAMAGEPLAN and labelmates SHADOWS FALL, the Swedish thrashers THE HAUNTED will now start to devastate Europe.

On January 26, 2005, THE HAUNTED will head out for the "Close Up Made Us Do It Tour" as headlining act all over Scandinavia together with support from TOTALT JÄVLA MÖRKER and INSISION. The last show of this leg will take place in Aarhus (Denmark) on February 13. Afterwards the guys have a few days off to hang out at home before they fly to the U.K. in order to tear down the walls of the English clubs. The headlining tour will start February 24 and run up to March 7 with support acts MARTYR AD and DEAD TO FALL.

Singer Peter Dolving commented on the activities of the past months: "It's been an insane, great, weird and sad year. We've received such a strong response to 'rEVOLVEr' as we never have before and it feels — as you can probably imagine — well, like a lot of everything.

"The spring of 2004 we did a tour in the U.K. with our brothers in FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND, playing for an audience completely new to us. I did that whole tour with four fractured ribs and it hurt like hell every night but we still had a good time. Seeing teenage girls screaming in the first row and watching as 2000 emo-kids formed circle-pits as we played in Glasgow was amazing.

"The six-week U.S. tour with SHADOWS FALL and DAMAGEPLAN ended on a sour note with the slaying of Dimebag Darrell, but it was heavy fucking package, every show escalating the intensity as we all inspired each other to outdo ourselves, setting a new mark every night.

"We intend to honour Dimebag's memory by fucking shit up more ferociously than ever before and we look forward to seeing our fans throughout the U.K. — it’s a hard love thing, you know what I mean... If there was ever a mark for what we can achieve as a band — well, this time we push the limits forward. See you there."

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