This past February, vocalist Peter Dolving quit THE HAUNTED for the second time; his tenures in the band were from 1997 – 1998, and 2003 – 2012; during which time he sang on five studio releases.

At the point of his final departure from The Haunted, Dolving stated, "After years of working with the band, I am out. I have had it. I will NOT answer questions to why. It's no one else's business. Thank you very much."

Peter has since changed his mind and issued a lengthy statement via Facebook, an excerpt follows:

"I've taken my time in trying to figure out what went wrong and why everything eventually went to shit.

I left the Haunted back early this spring because I had fucking had it with dysfunctional bullshit.

I knew it was there, fuck, I left the band once before, but at that time I didn't know as much about emotional dysfunctionality and just how fucking cynical people could be.

When I left, we were a bunch of sad fucking dudes. There was no love in it. None. And really, I doubt very much there had ever been any. In fact I deeply question whether Anders and Jonas Bjoerler have the slightest clue what deep loving friendships, joy and caring is even about. They think in terms of 'Me, me, me, me, mine, mine' to the fullest and most complete.

The reason I up and said 'fuck it' was this; There were drugs involved within the band, and crew members who's alcoholism/drug abuse was just overlooked and ignored because the individuals in question was cheaper than anyone else and delivered the goods. Local promotors and crew were being treated like they were somekind of underlings and promotors were required to get drugs, even in places as extremely high risk as China and Thailand. Drugs were smuggled.

I brought the subject up for discussion. I always did. With everything that was fucking with band-spirit.

The response I received was that no one else minded and that obviously I was the one who had the problem. My problem was caring.

The day the Bjoerlers decided to tell tell us about the AT THE GATES 'Farewell-tour' (The Farewell tour now on it's third year...) we were releasing and promoting Versus.

They told us that they would only do 14 shows. They are still touring..."

To read the rest of Dolving's testimonial, click here.