Interview with: Peter Dolving from THE HAUNTED

It feels really good! I think we were in Greece last summer actually!

Well, we are one of those bands that seem destined for underground greatness in some ways. Some nights we'll play in front of 150 people in a tiny club and the next we play in front of 10000 people at a festival. It all depends, and even though we are becoming very big in some places we play all over the world and doing that keeps us from getting bloated egos, Everywhere it's different.

We mix it up really well.

Fans yes. Press... I honestly don't have any idea, I haven't checked.

I think Versus is a more defined album than any of the older records. It feels confident and has an energy that I like a lot.

Hehehe... No I don't. I am not dissatisfied, but I am in some ways puzzled that some of our contemporaries are as successful as they are.

It's a record, you can buy it if you think it's worth it.

No, go ahead; Talk...

It was very Swedish, slow, quiet, low key and fun.

Last night I thought about quitting. I think it's something we all think about from time to time. This is a very very strange way of life, but so far so good right?

The best is going onstage and that hour and a half. The worst is waking up dreaming you are on tour to realize you are on tour and you have 14 hours to go before it's show time. Seriously, if you want sex or like to give total stranger rock-stars a massage, contact me; obviously I have some time to kill...

It's about us trying to satisfy some abstract need for expression and a desire to create something interesting, cool and amazing. Sometimes we actually succeed.

We have a lot of time this summer at home actually and we are looking forward to it. Then we'll start writing the new album this fall.

It was about time. We really felt we needed to do something we had never done before and try new boundaries and so for us it was a very important album. We still that record has some of the strongest songs we've ever written on it. Of course in some ways it was strange because Jensen wasn't a part of the process, having had really big personal issues at the time and it does show, it is different from the other stuff. Less tough guy, more emotional. Where the next record takes is still in the air, we really have no idea.

Most likely we will destroy them all. All you have to do is watch them live onstage and it gets terribly obvious, they are all a bunch of tired old drunks.

Thank you!

(Photos by Olle Carlsson)