Sweden’s THE HAUNTED continue promoting their newest album release, Unseen, which hit the charts at #5 position in Sweden as well as #26 in Finland upon release. After an Australian tour, a busy summer festivals schedule all over Europe, a Swedish tour with ENTOMBED and headlining shows in Greece, The Haunted have just returned home after playing a string of shows in Japan and China.

Finishing a busy musical year, the band has now checked in with a comment as follows: "Just got back home from an exciting trip in Asia. We played Japan together with IHSAHN and that was awesome! Also, this trip marked the first appearance in China for us and it was a great experience. China is really a great potential market for metal music. We had loads of fun!!!

In other news, we just got word that we are nominated for the prestigious P3 gold awards here in Sweden for the Unseen album in the "Best Rock/Metal" category. The awards ceremony will take place in Gothenburg in January so we'll keep our fingers crossed for the win.

Furthermore, we also just found out that we are nominated for a Swedish Grammi. This is great news, and hopefully we can bring home our 3rd Grammi award…”

For the Swedish Grammis Award, other nominated acts in the "Best Hard Rock/Metal" category are Graveyard, Hammerfall, Opeth and In Flames. For the P3 Guld Award from Swedish radio station P3 in the "Best Rock/Metal Album Of The Year" category the other nominated acts are Arch Enemy, Graveyard, In Flames and Opeth.

The Haunted have added two Swedish dates to the band's live itinerary. The dates are:

February

10 - Västerås, Sweden - Sigurdsgatan 25
11 - Karlstad, Sweden - Rockbaren/Nöjesfabriken

The band's full live schedule can be found here.

The Haunted launched a string of dates in Japan with IHSAHN and LEPROUS, at Shibuya O-East in Tokyo on Monday, December 5th. Footage of The Haunted's full set can be seen below: