Dissociated Ramble on Failures

Hi internet,

Apologies for my absence from reality since Haunted's last release. I owe the coven an update post to shed light on the inner workings of the project amid its silence this summer, filling in some gaps I have been leaving.

THE MARCID SKY THAT GLISTENS
OUT NOW

Since the release of The Marcid Sky That Glistens, I've been struggling to find a balance of consistency and motivation for the next musical endeavour. Over the past months, work has started on a few separate conceptual EPs, concepts of which I have been proud and excited to work on, but something in my tangled brain has been poisoned and can't keep focused on composing. Whether it's the slow dissolution of my sanity or overabundance of real-world requirements, music has been sporadic and withering, started but never finished, flower buds dying before they bloom.

The silence between releases wreaks its torture, almost endlessly expanding at this point. You may have seen on Haunted's cobwebbed Twitter earlier this summer of my plans for a Chopin inspired release; playing on choking emotion through incredibly sparse instrumentation and atmospheres, weaving the washed noises of romantic melancholy into a ghostly, depressive, atmospheric black metal EP. Overwhelmed with ideas apparently too abstract for this crippled brain to comprehend, the music frayed and questions of what music even is in the first place took over. Cue a quick descent into why why why [endless].

Prior to my Chopin retreat, I had started writing a separate EP - a vent-release of psychosis and depression crowned with noise and burdening disorientation, an echo of leaking sanity and the dying embers of thought. "why am i still breathing" and "Noir" [both released on Bandcamp] would have found their homes here, were it not for my dwindling inspiration besetting like a plague, stamping ideas into the mud and crippling all that had been created. Returning to this concept again, the issues are maintained, and black metal starts to feel like such a dead end, but is it the music or my mind?

My sanity, my fleeing sanity, cutting trenches through my thoughts, severing the ends and stitching them to the wrong beginnings.

This writers block sinks deeper than more simple disinspiration I've realised; it feeds off any shreds of my warping sanity, leaving one so empty in its cyclical inertia of beginning but never ending, chiselling away at my skull. The foundations I build on have been rotting for some time it seems, and I have been asleep.

Of all the pieces started this summer, a few parts thankfully do glitter in hope, but tying these fragments together, smoothing out their clashing intents and fleshing out these highlights of my musical breakdown into a fully realised release will be a whole other matter. I'll be praying to the gods of consistency and motivation, lest a void be planted again within me to grow unwieldy, devouring from the inside.

I'm not about to start promising release dates I doubt I can keep, but I wish to curse you all with another release by the end of the year. Whether it will be just a lonely track or a whole, albeit disoriented, EP is still up for debate, but I hate the cobwebs left across Haunted's Bandcamp and social media, and the silence that mutates so deep in the rot. I hope the community can understand the fluctuations of my sanity and the effect it has on my releases, despite my scatty surface-level explanation. The rotting parts I cut from me always seem to evolve, infected, worse.

Hysteria

EP Release: The Marcid Sky That Glistens...

HAUNTED'S NEW EP
THE MARCID SKY THAT GLISTENS...
OUT NOW

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Haunted are excited to announce the release of their third EP, "The Marcid Sky That Glistens...", a three track release conceptually inspired by the polarity of life + death perceived in nature during early spring. The firstborn heating months, enrobed in pastel, are so fragile in their return to a still freezing Earth, as nature is cruelly reanimated into a poison-dusted city - a seemingly hopeless metamorphoses from death into life leaving one to wonder if the natural world would rather stay bound to its grey eversleep than be so heartlessly, cyclically resurrected.

Tracklisting:

I. Nest

II. Eyes Sewn Upon Her

III. ...And The Skies Were Washed With Lilac And Rose

For those who seek a slightly more in-depth look at the EP, here are the spring-flushed inspirations behind each track:

      Nest is a soothingly dark take of home, riddled with claustrophobia and seething hatred. Doused in feelings of entrapment and the longing to be anywhere but here, Nest encapsulates the jagged, stabbing branches that circle one endlessly, like a crown of thorns laced with crippling monotony. The wanting to fly into a crumbling, tainted world so not to be mangled by one's own comfort..

     Eyes Sewn Upon Her was inspired by the brief sight of a river through a murky train window; a river carving through the colourless towering tombs of London, whose fleeting vision seems almost a mirage amid the concrete thorns butchering the city. To gaze upon the river glistening beneath the pale March sun and momentarily be swept to an Earth devoid of humans, in equilibrium with nature rather than with stone.. Watching the fragile winter trees blossom relentlessly back to life in a city whose nights are tarnished yellow and whose venomous air is choking.
     ...And The Skies Were Washed With Lilac And Rose echoes the twilight serenades of a cloud-washed sunset, the pearlescent swansong of the sky as she fades into darkness; the delicate hues of the early spring sky, illuminated for the first time since the dense winter clouds beset.

As all of Haunted's work, "The Marcid Sky That Glistens..." meanders between the many wavering strands of black metal; threading droplets of depressive and atmospheric influences into an authentically eclectic and haunting style; starlessly breathless as hope is tangled with hopelessness and beauty is shredded into sadness.

You can listen to the whole EP here on YouTube. Downloads of "The Marcid Sky That Glistens..." are also available on Bandcamp for free / name your price donation if you wish to listen in an internetless nirvana. All paid downloads are immeasurably appreciated and all £ will be put back into music creation and printing merch for summer.

Thanks to the growing coven of you that have downloaded Haunted's last EP "Under Stars And Waves"; I didn't expect it to get half the response that it did and I appreciate the support unfathomably! After this release I will spend a week soaking in that post-birth feeling before continuing work on Haunted's fourth release which is currently due in July; a longer, melancholically cold and suffocating collection of tracks to cancel out the searing heatwaves that will soon be unleashed upon the planet. More details of Haunted 4 will fall soon... till then, I hope you tired beings enjoy the short cacaphonies of "The Marcid Sky That Glistens..."

    - Hysteria

The Marcid Sky Will Glisten... Third EP Update

Hi internet,

It's been just over a week since the release of Haunted's latest EP, "Under Stars And Waves", and I'm just here to do an update on the project as we do on this website, and chat about some eerie , spring-flushed things in the works.

Firstly thank you for your support on the new EP and the stand alone track I uploaded earlier this week, "why am i still breathing"! I honestly didn't expect either works to get even half as much attention or positive feedback that they did and I'm slightly overwhelmed by it considering how much of a cynical bastard I can be when it comes to my music. To be honest I hate the mix of the USAW EP, my mind gets drowned with the flaws, so when anyone shows positive interest I'm just like :) mad

I have a third conceptual EP written entitled "The Marcid Sky That Glistens..." comprised of three songs, but it turns out one of the tracks is an unsaveable mess so I'll be writing another soon to fill the void that has been left. This dreamy, blackgazey EP is conceptually inspired by the dying sunsets of early spring, and nature thawing from winter's frigid deathgrip, buried amongst concrete and other inner-city poisons. The third EP will most likely be released towards the end of May 2019 if the stars align as forecasted, after which the rate of releases will probably slow down as I hole away in the cold two a.m. darkness writing writing writing... The release date of "The Marcid Sky That Glistens..." will be announced on Haunted's Twitter as soon as confirmed.

After writing "why am i still breathing" part of me just wants to compose and produce embracing the noise and dissonance, borderline anti-music, instead of doing 'proper' music with some degree of quality. There's a small chance of getting a few more chokingly chaotic tracks similar to "why am i still breathing" before the release of the next EP but who knows what bullshit my mind is gonna pull next. If a sizeable collection of bedlam music is imagined, these butchered tracks will form Haunted's fourth EP, planned to be released by July.

In the next few months, some highly limited edition T-Shirts will be for sale on Haunted's Bandcamp if you starless beings wish to cloak yourself in the peaceful void - no more than 30 of these shirts will be printed. I'll hopefully also be releasing some patches and sticker packs by August, maybe some guitar picks and lighters (those merch printing sites are mad). I'm skint as fuck at the moment so bear with me while I round up the pennies lol. If you would like to support Haunted's endeavours, all name your price donations of Haunted's music via Bandcamp will be put into music creation and printing merch, and all are unfathomably appreciated! Thank you so much to everyone who has already bought the EPs and blessed this project with your kind support 🖤

Stay tuned via Haunted's Twitter for updates on literally everything, and subscribe / follow Haunted's YouTube and Bandcamp to catch all our bleak midwintery music as soon as it is released! Press releases and more 'formal' or long-form announcements and updates will be gathered on this site, as well as lyrics for those of you who wish to dissipate the whispering mist, artwork and possibly Q+As in the future!

Cheers
       - Hysteria

 

☾ why am i still breathing [Latest Release]
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☾ Bleak Midwinter [DEBUT EP]
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☾ Under Stars And Waves [EP]
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EP Release: Under Stars And Waves

Download on Bandcamp
Listen on YouTube

Hi internet,

I'm excited to announce the release of Haunted's next EP, "Under Stars And Waves", out now on YouTube and Bandcamp!

Tracklisting:

I. Under Stars And Waves

II. The Last Dim Light I Breathe

III. Sadness

IV. Leave

I wrote a longer blog post on the conceptual inspirations behind "Under Stars And Waves" last week, which you can read here, but to reiterate shortly, this EP is inspired by the notorious cliffs of Beachy Head (Eastbourne, UK) and their tragic legacy as a suicide hotspot. It is a place whose suffocating atmosphere has lingered with me for years, haunting my nightmares with nostalgic deathwishes and cravings for an ocean-washed ending. I wanted to echo the sorrowful vision of the last moments on Earth atop those towering cliffs, gazing at the endless expanse of breathtaking sea and sky while burdened by a much less beautiful mind.. 

Sonically meandering between the many wavering strands of black metal such as DSBM, ABM, and blackgaze, "Under Stars And Waves", like much of Haunted's work, is authentically eclectic in style, refusing to be bound to any set genre; instead threading fragmented influences into a moonless, bleary eyed vision of life under the stars and death beneath the waves.

You can download the "Under Stars And Waves" EP on Bandcamp for a name your price donation if you would like to support my strange musical endeavours. All £ will be reinvested into music creation and printing merch for summer! All your support is immeasurably appreciated, even if there's only a handful of you jumping in the grave I'm digging  💜 You can also listen to the full EP on YouTube here. Sometime in the nearish future Haunted's discography will also be on iTunes and Spotify - stay updated on Twitter to to stay updated!

I'm excited to release this one into the glistening aether and I hope you enjoy it  x

     - Hysteria

                                           UNDER STARS AND WAVES EP

Debut EP - BLEAK MIDWINTER

Under Stars And Waves EP - Out April 23

  

HAUNTED'S NEW EP

UNDER STARS AND WAVES

OUT APRIL 23

Hi internet,

Haunted's second EP, "Under Stars And Waves" will be out on Tuesday April 23! A small collection of songs conceptually inspired by the pearlescent cliffs of Beachy Head (Eastbourne, UK); their towering peaks suffocated by the sombre melancholia that lingers like wraiths, tired and drowned, and the sounds of the hushing sea so far below. Sonically, "Under Stars And Waves" threads elements of blackgaze, dsbm, atmospheric bm and a few other wavering strands of black metal into a moonless, bleary eyed vision of life under the stars, and death beneath the waves..

For those of you unaware of Beachy Head's tragic legacy - its soaring crumbling heights crowned with seas of wooden crucifixes have marked it the as one of the world's most popular suicide spots and sadly the UK's most popular destination. Lets just say I had an 'experience' atop the cliffs many years ago which has haunted me since; and the atmosphere that dripped in such sadness didn't leave, the clear air heaving under the looming clouds of death, bleeding all colour from the horizon.. to stand gazing at the beautiful natural world wishing to be blanketed by the glistening sea beneath - a beauty which is dimmed by stale longing, close in reach.. I wanted to capture the burdening, nostalgic haze of the cliffs which has lingered with me, and echo the morbid, fragile emotions as you stand upon the peaks drowned with everything you hate, staring at a polar opposite vision of the endless sea and sky, colourless but glimmering.. an EP made in hope to find peace with the worst moments of life and death.

That got deep real quick and I'm terrible at explaining things like this lol. To me, music is therapeutic and this EP was one of those vent pieces to empty myself of all the nostalgia and nightmares and turn it into something creative and slightly more beautiful. Trying to find peace through confrontation of the void.

Thank you for all your support on Haunted's debut EP "Bleak Midwinter" (YOUTUBE / BANDCAMP) released last week! I appreciate it immeasurably even if there's only a small number of you, a cult following is fine by me ;)

When "Under Stars And Waves" is released on Tuesday you will be able to listen on YouTube and stream for free on Bandcamp. You can download Haunted's discography for free / name your price on Bandcamp if you wish to support my strange musical endeavours; all donations will be reinvested into music creation and printing merch for summer 💜 I'm also on Twitter shitposting alone as a wise man once said.

    - Hysteria

EP Release: Bleak Midwinter

BLEAK MIDWINTER by HAUNTED
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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