Peter Dolving is a guitarist

Guitarist

A guitarist is a musician who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselves on the guitar while singing.- Versatility :The guitarist controls an extremely...

, songwriter

Songwriter

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, and spoken-word

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 performer who is best known as the singer of the Swedish

Sweden

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 metal

Heavy metal music

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 band The Haunted

The Haunted

The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

.

Career

Dolving began as a singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...

 playing in cafes in Sweden

Sweden

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. He joined the band Mary Beats Jane

Mary Beats Jane

Mary Beats Jane was a Swedish hardcore / thrash metal band from Gothenburg. Their self-titled 1994 album won a Swedish Grammy in 1994.Singer Peter Dolving, who went on to join The Haunted around 1997, has said the band is dead and won't be making any more music.-Members:*Peter Dolving -...

 and organized rave

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s to support himself. He then opened the highly successful rock club called "Underground" in the basement of restaurant Kompaniet, Gothenburg. Mary Beats Jane released their first album in 1994 and toured through 1997. Dolving has said Mary Beats Jane will never re-form.

Dolving then joined Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band The Haunted

The Haunted

The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

 in 1997 with former members of At The Gates

At the Gates

At the Gates is an extreme metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, and a major progenitor of the Gothenburg death-metal sound. Their early albums lean towards a death metal sound, but later albums sound more like melodic death metal.Initially active from 1990 to 1996, the band reformed in 2007 for a...

 (at the time they were experimenting with the name Death & 1/2 Prod.), supporting himself by drawing fetish art

Fetish art

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 and working as a carpenter. He left The Haunted

The Haunted

The Haunted is a Swedish metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.The original members were Anders & Jonas Björler, Peter Dolving, Adrian Erlandsson and Patrik Jensen...

 after the first album, then returned in 2004 on the album rEVOLVEr. He eventually formed The Peter Dolving Band to perform his own songs and wrote spoken-word material for the short film No Justice No Peace by Jonas Olsen. The Peter Dolving Band no longer exists, with that style of music taken up by his BringTheWarHome project. Recently Dolving incited the wrath of some Metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 fans with his unique soul-searching and frequent ranting in the Blog

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 section of his official MySpace

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 page. A candid interview with him appears in the documentary Working Class Rock Star. In 2011 Dolving joined the Swedish hardcore band Rosvo.

with Mary Beats Jane

• Mary Beats Jane (1994)
• Locust (1996)

with The Haunted

• The Haunted
  The Haunted (album)
  The Haunted is the debut album by the Swedish thrash metal band The Haunted, released in 1998.-Track listing:Reissue"Burner" - 3:36Unreleased* "I'll Be Damned" - 3:54-Personnel:The Haunted* Peter Dolving - vocals...
  
  (1998)
• Revolver (2004)
• The Dead Eye
  The Dead Eye
  The collectors U.S., European, and Japanese editions also feature a bonus DVD.#"The Dead Eye" - Making Of Documentary#"All Against All" - Promo Video Clip#"No Compromise" - Promo Video Clip#"99" - Live at Metal Mania Festival 2005...
  
  (2006)
• Versus
  Versus (The Haunted album)
  -Note:# "Meat Wagon" is the only the song on Japanese Issue that is not on the Special Edition Issue while the rest of the songs are.-Release history:-Credits:The Haunted*Peter Dolving - vocals & lyrics*Patrik Jensen - rhythm guitar...
  
  (2008)
• Road Kill (Live album and DVD) (2010)
• Unseen
  Unseen (album)
  Unseen is the seventh studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band The Haunted.Vocalist Peter Dolving has described the album as "Epic. Danceable. Groovy. And very very arty farty metal. With this next record we are going to be taking a piss in the general direction of all the crappy 99.9...
  
  (2011)

Other releases

• Just 'cause you can talk, don't mean I have to listen (2000) re-released in (2011)
• One of Us (2001)
• Bad Blood (2003)
• Trash It Up (2003) by the band Set My Path (Contributed vocals on the track Shine)
• Satelite Bay (2007) by Long Distance Calling (Contributed vocals on the tracks The Very Last Day and Swallow the Water)
• Warning (2008) EP by ColdTears (Contributed vocals on the track No Ordinary Ghost)
• Rejoice! (2008) LP by BringTheWarHome
• Banisher Of The Light (2008) by the band Sparzanza (Contributed vocals on the track Dead Rising)

External links

• The Haunted - Peter Dolving