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Göteborg, Sweden-based death/thrash metal icons The Haunted have set August 25th as the official release date for their next album, which has been given the title ”Strength in Numbers”, on Century Media Records. Commenting on the Russ Russell-produced outing, the band’s guitarist Ola Englund offered:

Working on ’Strength in Numbers’ with Russ Russell as an engineer and producer has been an incredible experience. His attitude and positivity has helped us to truly do our best when recording. He’s just a killer guy to be around!

All the tracking for the album has been completed and Russ is right in the middle of mixing and mastering it. And from the early mixes I’ve heard, it’s shaping up to be insanely heavy. No clean singing, no banjo, no pickup trucks… so fans of country music are gonna hate it, haha! Seriously: Heads are gonna roll. In a good way…

You can watch some footage from the Parlour Studio offering glimpses of the recording process at the bottom of this news item.

The group has also revealed the following tour of Scandinavia in support of the new record early this Fall, with speed metallers Witchery providing support on select dates:

August 31st - Blå, Oslo, NOR

September 01st - Folken, Stavanger, NOR

September 02nd - Hulen, Bergen, NOR

September 08th - Frimis Salinger, Örebro, SWE (+ Witchery)

September 09th - Crypt, Linköping, SWE (+ Witchery)

September 15th - Liljan, Borlänge, SWE

September 16th - Destroyer, Sundsvall, SWE

September 21st - Pustervik, Göteborg, SWE (+ Witchery)

September 22nd - Debaser Strand, Stockholm, SWE (+ Witchery)

September 23rd - Kulturbolaget, Malmö, SWE (+ Witchery)

September 29th - Mörkaste Småland Festival, Hultsfred, SWE

September 30th - Loket, Eskilstuna, SWE

In addition to the above shows, the band has the below festival appearances booked:

June 07th - Sweden Rock Festival, Sölvesborg, SWE

October 07th - Graveland Fest, Hoogeveen, NET