Though, this opened a new chance of building up a reunion with former vocalist Peter Dolving. After another tour to Scandinavia, North America, United Kingdom and Europe in the fall of 2003, the sudden departure of Marco Aro came as a shock. The album resulted in The Haunted dominating album charts all over the world, and their first tours to Australia and South Africa, another tour to Japan, and a second Grammy. Alternative Press hailed The Haunted as one of metal's 25 most important bands. The Haunted broke their own record being listed at number one on CMJ Loud Rock Radio Chart in five weeks. The next album was released in February 2003 and was titled One Kill Wonder. This meant that he could appear on the third studio album. In August 2001, guitarist/songwriter Anders BjГ¶rler left the band and he was temporarily replaced by Marcus Sunesson of The Crown for The Haunted's headlining tour in less than a year BjГ¶rler returned to the band. The band subsequently released their first live album - Live Rounds in Tokyo. The Haunted played on festivals such as 2000 Decibel, Hultsfred (both in Sweden), Graspop (Belgium), and Wacken Open Air (Germany). The album was followed by European tours with Entombed and Nile, The Crown in U.K., and In Flames in Japan. 'The Haunted Made Me Do It' topped CMJ Loud Rock Radio Chart in four weeks, and won a Swedish Grammy for Best Hard Rock Album. It is originally called Made Me Do It, but it is meant for the band name to be included in the title.

Their second album, Made Me Do It, released in 2000, was more melodic and resembled the Gothenburg style (with bands such as At the Gates, etc.) more than old-school thrash metal that was used on The Haunted. The band began to record their second album right after. Their replacements were Marco Aro and Per MГ¶ller Jensen. with Napalm Death.ДЄfter the release of this album, Peter Dolving and Adrian Erlandsson both left the band in 1999, the latter joining Cradle of Filth.

The Haunted made a respectable live reputation staging the Swedish metal scene, as well the international scene, touring the U.K. The album resulted in The Haunted being praised as Newcomer of the Year by several magazines, and the album being called Album of the Year by Terrorizer Magazine. The band released their first album, while signed to Earache Records, the selftitled debut The Haunted, in 1998. They had made their demo, called Demo '97, in 1997. In 27 July 1996, Patrik Jensen co-created the band with Adrian Erlandsson, who had just become an ex-member of his former band, At the Gates, due to the bands' split up the day before.

Both of the BjГ¶rler brothers and Erlandsson were members of the seminal melodic death metal band At the Gates, a pioneering force in the Swedish death metal scene.ДЄ minority of members, past and present, are from Gothenburg, Sweden with the exception of Patrik Jensen, who is from LinkГ¶ping Per MГ¶ller Jensen, who is from Denmark Adrian Erlandsson, who is from MalmГ¶ and Marco Aro, who is from Finland. The original members were Anders & Jonas BjГ¶rler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen. The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.

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