Comments on: The Haunted – Unseen

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 17 May 2011 03:14:27 +0000

I love how faust thinks he’s an authority on philosophy after taking probably one or two undergraduate courses on the subject. What a fucking tool. STFU already you woman beating degenerate, no one gives a shit about your smarmy self-importance.

By: faust

faust — Mon, 16 May 2011 06:35:30 +0000

That’s a logically fallacious argument Bonehead.

By: King Missle

King Missle — Mon, 16 May 2011 05:47:24 +0000

This is almost as bad as the new In Flames, which means its horrible.

By: Bonehenge

Bonehenge — Fri, 13 May 2011 17:22:27 +0000

15 when load came out?!? So you were about 5 when Master of Puppets came out then. Wow, your opinion on this type of music means shit.

By: raphaël

raphaël — Fri, 13 May 2011 02:59:22 +0000

I got every Haunted records and though I really thought I’d hate Unseen (after hearing the title track for the first time) I’m just liking it more after each spin. Dolving’s performance is unbelievable, like his voice could pretty much cover any type of singing. Per’s drumming has never so subtle and naturally flowing with the music and the overall production is greasy and warm though you can hear there’s quite a bit of processing going on. The songs have all a particular mood and colour and the more mid-paced and melodic direction doesn’t bother me at all. Those guys had the balls to put out exactly the record they wanted certainly knowing the regular metalhead would hate it. At the end of the day, I dont mind if Unseen is “metal”, “pop”, “alt rock” or whatever some people want to label this record. I can still hear the core of what I love in that band in the new songs, and find the overall result far more interesting and daring than the average “Versus”.

By: Stahl

Stahl — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 23:14:10 +0000

The most wasted 42:21 of my life. The ONLY thing I could commend is the heavy-ass recording/production. For what it is, it may be good to some. But at that point, why not just change the name of the band ?

By: shane

shane — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 22:15:44 +0000

LOL! Both Shaden and Blackwater make me laugh. Idiotic comments constantly.

By: Coles

Coles — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:36:11 +0000

I wish I could close the circle of AIDS started by ko<\n, but it looks to have infected Dolving as well. do you see what I did there? I related the start of musical AIDS to Ko<\n. on a more serious note, AIDS levels spiked in the 90s, curiously enough when Ko<\n blew up. Yep, Ko<\n gets big = AIDS gets big. Proven science kids.

By: faust

faust — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 11:28:48 +0000

“This album is amazing, and the only thing preventing some people from liking it is the knucklehead cave dweller mentality that seems to be so common in the sub-culture today.”

Hahahahahahahahahahaha.. What a pretentious idiot.

What’s preventing people from liking “Unseen” is it is pure tripe and is about as fuckin enjoyable as “Quorn”. Get the pun ?? Of course you don’t!

By: mccumberv

mccumberv — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:48:59 +0000

Sounds like Korn, Dolving has always wanted to turn the Haunted into a Nu-metal band, better stage for him to get up there and whore out his personality with all his dumbshit teenage angst, what’s the point in releasing an album like this? They sure as hell aren’t reinventing anything or breaking any new ground, they dumbed it down, rehashed old Coal Chamber riffs and those vocals…holy shit they suck worse than Anders from In Flames, both of those dudes have a man-crush on Davis from Korn, what a disgrace.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:28:28 +0000

Wow, I expected Scott Alisoglu to have a more open mind. After that comment I doubt I’ll ever read one of your reviews the same way again.

This album is amazing, and the only thing preventing some people from liking it is the knucklehead cave dweller mentality that seems to be so common in the sub-culture today.

By: Scott Alisoglu

Scott Alisoglu — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 14:55:53 +0000

I can honestly say I don’t even want to listen to this album now and this is not the first review I’ve seen slamming it. But perhaps I should do my critical duty and review it as well… I can’t imagine my opinion would be any different, especially since Larry’s reviews tend to be spot on.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 23:38:24 +0000

Coles… awesome comment!! :lol:

By: markr

markr — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:45:09 +0000

There’s a band called Romeo must die?

By: Coles

Coles — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 21:31:51 +0000

this album will cure AIDS or mutate it to spread faster. I’ve said everything, yet nothing at all. you read, you lose.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:51:06 +0000

“hypocritical poseur”? What? So because I like this album I’m a hypocrite and a poseur? Uh, ok, sure man.

By: faust

faust — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:04:45 +0000

There’s a band called “Romeo Must Die” ??

By: shaden

shaden — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 19:44:55 +0000

better than the dead eye for sure.but def not nearly as good as the new romeo must die,which kicks the shit outa this cd.

first haunted was the best haunted,end of story.

By: faust

faust — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:55:52 +0000

Wow..15 billion times wasn’t enough to get the message across then. Some people have the skull of a Pachycephalosaur.
Album sucks, get over it. Stop being a hypocritical poseur. It doesn’t impress anyone. Not even Peter fuckin Dolving.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:44:37 +0000

People that use the phrase “denial is not a fuckin river in Egypt” need to know that it stopped being funny 15 billion times it was said ago.

Some people like this album, some people hate it. Get over it.

By: faust

faust — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:01:14 +0000

I tried very hard to find some redeeming qualities about this record. I couldn’t. Unseen is a bizarrely bad album. Larry’s review is spot-fuckin-on. People who are hailing this to be a masterwork need to know that denial is not a fuckin river in Egypt.

By: Plasmaterial

Plasmaterial — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 07:00:31 +0000

The review of this over at MetalReview.com is a VERY good read…and sums up my thoughts on this album: shocked at first, but after letting it sink in on multiple listens, I like the album for what it is.

But it is understandable as to why many would detest this album.

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:10:16 +0000

Substitute “funny” for “accurate” in the above. :lol:

By: Evil In U

Evil In U — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:36:31 +0000

The only word I will use to describe this review is “accurate” ;)

By: Blackwater Park

Blackwater Park — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:12:15 +0000

“Blind supporters will undoubtedly call it “art”, “avant-garde”, “experimental”, etc etc and try their best to convince the rest of us it’s some sort of brilliant masterwork, but I’m not fooled, this is garbage”

Or maybe some people genuinely like the album and can appreciate the music for what it is. Your definition of “blind” is evidently anyone who disagrees with you or your review. Let me show you how this works, when I turn the tables…

“Blind supporters of this review will undoubtedly call it “funny”, “honest”, “insightful”, etc etc and try their best to convince the rest of us it’s some sort of brilliant masterwork, but I’m not fooled, this is garbage”

See how clever it is to try and preemptively stifle any debate? *rolls eyes*

I’ve been a fan (and yes I am male… so “fanboy” fits I suppose) of The Haunted since day one and in my view this is the best album of 2011 hands down.