Coming off the heels of their 2024 EP I, which garnered a nomination for “Best Indie/Alternative” in the San Diego Music Awards, Hauntu returns with 10 beautifully furious songs about living in uber-capitalist, peri-fascist USA on full-length debut, The Unknown Reigns. The album sees release November 14 via Sell The Heart Records and Engineer Records.
From the relentless opening down-stroked guitars of “Crooked Teeth”, to the thunderous drums of “All’s Well (in Hell)” marching you through the apocalypse, the overarching themes of The Unknown Reigns, are poignant and apt. Hauntu’s sound is both cathartic and thought-provoking, unapologetically confronting the darkness that plagues humanity. It’s a little goth, a little ’90s, with hints of metal, and a whole lotta punk as fuck (in the ethical sense). Simply, fans of Mannequin Pussy, Hot Snakes, Wet Leg, Fugazi, Siouxsie, and The Wipers are gonna dig this.
The band recently released its video for “The Knife,” which is available here. Today, they follow it up with ‘By Design’
“’By Design’ is a straight to the point release of anger and contempt for the world that was designed by and for all generations before us and yet to come – this is not the way and we all know and feel it, and yearn for so much more,” says vocalist Rebecca Ann Antuna.
Pre-order the record from Sell The Heart here, from the band here, 0r from Engineer Records here.
Photo by RC Krueger.
