Strength in Numbers (The Haunted album)

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Strength in Numbers
The Haunted Strength in Numbers cover art.jpg
Studio album by
Released25 August 2017 (2017-08-25)
RecordedMarch−May 2017
StudioParlour Studios in Kettering, England
Genre Thrash metal, melodic death metal
Length38:00
Label Century Media
Producer Russ Russell
The Haunted chronology
Exit Wounds
(2014)
Strength in Numbers
(2017)
Singles from Strength in Numbers
  1. "Brute Force"
    Released: 23 June 2017 (2017-06-23) [1]
  2. "Spark"
    Released: 21 July 2017 (2017-07-21) [2]
  3. "Preachers of Death"
    Released: 18 August 2017 (2017-08-18) [3]
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Strength in Numbers is the ninth studio album by Swedish metal band The Haunted, released on 25 August 2017 via Century Media. [8] [9]

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."Fill the Darkness with Black" (instrumental)  Ola Englund 1:24
2."Brute Force"Marco AroEnglund2:48
3."Spark"Aro4:21
4."Preachers of Death"BjörlerEnglund4:55
5."Strength in Numbers"
  • Björler
  • Aro
  • Björler
  • Englund
4:38
6."Tighten the Noose"Aro Patrik Jensen 3:00
7."This Is the End"Björler
  • Björler
  • Jensen
3:29
8."The Fall"Björler
  • Björler
  • Englund
4:32
9."Means to an End"Aro
  • Björler
  • Englund
4:25
10."Monuments"
  • Björler
  • Englund
Englund4:28
Total length:38:00
Digipak edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
11."Illusions"Aro
  • Björler
  • Jensen
3:33
12."Sinister"AroJensen4:05
Total length:45:38
Japanese edition bonus tracks
No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
11."Illusions"Aro
  • Björler
  • Jensen
3:33
12."Sinister"AroJensen4:05
13."Shackles"AroEnglund4:12
Total length:49:50

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. [10]

The Haunted

Production and design

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