EP Release: Bleak Midwinter

BLEAK MIDWINTER by HAUNTED
Listen for free on Youtube
Download for free / name your price on Bandcamp

Announcing the release of Haunted's debut EP "Bleak Midwinter", a fog-veiled take on the morbid beauty of the Earth as she crumbles beneath winter's frost, the night-veiled serenades of the black winds, and the choking greyness that seeps like a deathly purification.

Tracklisting:
    I.  Bleak Midwinter
   II. A Crimson Midnight

While the title track "Bleak Midwinter" echoes the thickening mist of a seasonal depression; the choking sense of death that plummets with the fallen winter through its suffocatingly dense tones, "A Crimson Midnight" polarisingly explores a nostalgic haze of silver and red, the strangeness, the melancholy and the blissful torture of it all, crawling into more obscure sonic routes as weeping strings are weaved with eerie theremins and bloodcurdling horror organs. A blissfully melancholic soundtrack to the pouring Nykterian rain...

"Bleak Midwinter" is available to listen to for free on YouTube. Free downloads are available on Bandcamp, and from the weekend will also be available for a name your price donation if you wandering, haunted beings wish to support my musical endeavours. Over summer, some unique and highly limited tshirts and merch bundles will hopefully be released if you wish to cloak yourself in the glittering void. All of your support is immeasurably appreciated 💜

Lyrics to the "Bleak Midwinter" EP are available on the official Haunted site (here, under Lyrics) if you wish to decipher the wash of starless noise I create.


"Bleak Midwinter" is one of 3 small, conceptually inspired EPs Haunted plan to release by summer 2019, accompanied by "Under Stars and Waves" (due late April) and "The Marcid Sky That Glistens" (due by May). Some limited t-shirts and small unique merch bundles will become available on Haunted's Bandcamp over late spring bleeding into summer if you haunted souls wish to cloak yourselves in the glittering void. A highly limited edition physical compilation album might also be released into the aether this summer.

Make sure to subscribe Haunted's YouTube channel and turn on notifs to catch all my releases as soon as they come out. You can also follow me on Twitter and sub to the official Haunted site to be updated with all Haunted's activity. Here on the Haunted site I will also be posting blog updates, lyrics, artwork, conceptual inspirations of songs and other info for the audience, maybe some Q+As in the future if the stars align..

Cheers

    - Hysteria

Bleak Midwinter, Bleak Production.

Hi internet

BLEAK MIDWINTER EP
RELEASE DATE: 10/04/2018

It hasn't been that long since I last posted a blog but I'd like to update you lot on some exciting things happening! Haunted's debut EP, "Bleak Midwinter", is in its final stages of production (I'll get to that later), and is due to be released on Wednesday 10 April. The tracklisting is as follows:

   I. Bleak Midwinter
  II. A Crimson Midnight

The title track "Bleak Midwinter" was released as a debut single, which you can listen to here. A dense song about the suffocating fog of winter, the death she brings as she falls so relentlessly to Earth, and her inescapable, seeping evergrey.

'A Crimson Midnight' is an eerie, bloodsoaked piece, polarisingly about the comfort of the winter's dark, cold nights. Almost as equally suffocating as the title track, "A Crimson Midnight" explores more obscure sonic routes, weaving theremins with weeping strings and horror organs, echoing a nostalgic haze of silver and red, the strangeness, the melancholy and the blissful torture of it all.

Only two songs? Yep. At the moment all the music I am writing for Haunted is going to be released on small conceptually inspired EPs, with 2 - 4 songs on each. The other two EPs I'm working on (due spring/summer) are three/four song pieces inspired by closely related concepts, like how the tracks on Bleak Midwinter are linked in their lyrical tones. Haunted aspires to reverberate a vision of existence, and to me, artistically, it is much better achieved through the separation of the visions, and allowing them to echo widely rather than bleed into eachother, jumbled on a 40+ minute record that jumps between concepts.

So I'm not even going to lie, as you may tell from Haunted's music, I'm shit at production. I have my moments but nah. Songwriting is my thing and when an initial mix of the song is done, I just want to move onto the next one. I remix it again in a few weeks but no matter how long I spend on it, it just never has that oompf so at this point I'm just like fine be like that I've got other stuff to be getting on with. Hopefully in the future the quality will flourish into what it deserves to be as I figure out how to dim my want to write, but all three EPs out in spring/summer will most likely be somewhat questionable production-wise - not bad don't worry, I wouldn't put out something that didn't deserve to be released, it just needs a bit more love. Haunted probably won't do a full-length release till that's all sorted, just loads of smaller, conceptual EPs obscurely existing in their own slightly-off sound. I'm hoping you all can appreciate the songs as the weird spooky things they are without holding them to professional production standards :)

In the coming months when the EPs come out and if the project gains a little bit of traction, I might release some small, highly limited bits of merch on my Bandcamp if you would like to support me as an artist or own a bit of my surreal mind. I won't be printing CDs/tapes etc till a full length release as that shits expensive jesus but I have some unique ideas for merch bundles including shirts, lighters, guitar picks... to make the project more inclusive and absorbing for the audience.

Thank you for all your support, I truly appreciate it  💜 Blows my mind anyone would want to listen to my stuff even if it's only a small number of you. To stay updated with Haunted's activity, you can subscribe to the official site (this site) at the bottom of this page where I'll be posting more blog updates, artwork, lyrics, release and press info... Everything your souls may crave will be gathered here.

I'm also active on Twitter with shorter-form updates, initial artwork releases and random spooky bullshit. You can download all my music for free on my Bandcamp, or listen on Haunted's YouTube.

Cheers
    - Hysteria

Preparing for a Searing Summer..

Hi internet

Thanks for all your support on Haunted's latest demo releases, Sadness and The Last Dim Light I Breathe. Even if there's only like 5 of you listening I'm happy these songs aren't just buried in my hard drive existing so meaninglessly, even if just for a handful of you wandering souls.

Next on the agenda is to write a few more songs over the coming weeks and mix more tracks for 'Bleak Midwinter' and 'Under Stars and Waves' - two small EPs due to be released in spring/summer. Haunted may be musically quiet for a small while as I work on the future releases, but I'll be sure to have an ever expanding collection of questionably produced but still soothingly dark, bleak tracks to help us all cancel out the coming heatwaves; rainy songs to deflect the seemingly endless drought, the months of blinding summer..

Haunted is not a 'commercial' project, but an artistic project for me to release the music I write for other tired, strange or otherwise haunted people to listen to and find peace with the darkness they experience. Haunted wasn't launched with an intention of becoming 'famous' as I know there may not be many people that experience or feel the atmosphere Haunted creates, but for a few starless beings, Haunted hope to create a place to soak in a distorted image of the torturous but beautiful thing of consciousness and confront the fragile parts of their everything. Echoing a dimly saturated Earth to those who also see colourlessly.

Although there might not be many songs coming for a few weeks unless I do a spontaneous thing, I'll still be active on Twitter doing idek what better you follow to find out ;) (btw if anyone's got any good obscure horror movies let me know I'm on the hunt)

Below I'm embedding the songs released by Haunted so far, which you can also find links for on the Discography above. Make sure to subscribe on YouTube and turn on notifs to catch the new EPs as soon as they come out! You can also sub to the official Haunted website (this site) at the end of this page where you'll be updated of all Haunted's activity - from release/press info to blog posts about the writing process, song inspirations, lyrics and more!

Cheers,

      - Hysteria

Haunted - Bleak Midwinter

Haunted - Sadness [Demo]

Haunted - The Last Dim Light I Breathe [Demo]

Two New Demos Released!

Haunted's latest releases Sadness and The Last Dim Light I Breathe are now available to listen to on  YouTube and Bandcamp for free! These two polarising demos form half of an upcoming EP, Under Stars and Waves, due to be released this spring.

Sadness, a depressive / atmospheric piece on choking night-veiled loneliness, a freezing existence, and desperate needs for comfort, delicately laces peace with torturous melancholy through its tidal waves of emotion, experimenting on the polarity of emotions - how embers of hope introduced to a hopeless song can emphasise the misery rather than expected upliftment.

The Last Dim Light I Breathe is a rawer take on more morbid affairs surrounding Beachy Head - the burdening atmosphere of the cliffs' peaks, choked with death; an image of the last moments of thundering pulse atop the hazy pearlescent cliffs.

Thank you for your initial support of my releases! Some more tracks will be coming out in a week or two, followed by two EP's in April/May. Stay updated with Haunted's activity through Twitter and subscribe to the YouTube channel to catch all of my releases. I'm

- Hysteria

An Update on Future Releases..

Hi internet

I have a lot of songs in the works at the moment which I'm excited to be releasing over the next few weeks and months. A handful of haunting songs will be uploaded sporadically singularly on YouTube and Bandcamp before two small EP releases due for April / May.

Sadness artwork

The next track I plan to release will most likely be out by Sunday. Entitled 'Sadness', it is a song about the tidal waves of being amid a haze of solitude and tired night-veiled wishes for comfort. Musically flowing between the beautifully sparse and the burying, Sadness is a somewhat more delicate piece, using moments of hope to later emphasise the scenes of drowning hopelessness.

Another track that should be coming out very soon, 'The Last Dim Light I Breathe', will be a raw take on the breathless scenery atop Beachy Head, a walk beneath the blanket of sombre grief that chokes the air above its peaks. As dense and as morbid as the grey fog of a cliff edge, this song is soaked in my nightmares.

Thank you for all your initial support on this project and Haunted's debut single Bleak Midwinter :) Make sure to subscribe to my YouTube channel and turn on notifs to catch all my releases as soon as they come out, follow me on Twitter and sub to the official Haunted site to be updated with all Haunted's activity. Here on the Haunted site I will also be posting lyrics, artwork before release, conceptual inspirations of songs and other song info for the audience.

Cheers,

     - Hysteria

Bleak Midwinter Debut Single Release

Bleak Midwinter single: out now

Haunted announce the release of their debut single, Bleak Midwinter, available to listen to for free on YouTube and Bandcamp.

This song was written as a reflection of the death and sombre darkness that the winter brings as she plummets, the greyness she bleeds upon the Earth and her dense, smothering fog that burdens the air and mind.

Haunted is a new black metal / blackgaze project created by myself, Hysteria, a sole female musician, who is conceptually inspired to make music that weaves the polarising beauty and misery of existence together into atmospheric musical pieces, attempting to find peace with the mind, nature and being through confrontation of the void.

Bleak Midwinter will also be released on a two song EP, also titled Bleak Midwinter, later this spring.  I also have plans for a second EP to follow Bleak Midwinter, so make sure to subscribe to the website at the end of the page to be informed of all Haunted's activity. More details of releases and dates will be posted here on the official Haunted website once confirmed.

Here's to the dark, winding journey ahead.

- Hysteria