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Jonas Björler
Jonas Björler with The Haunted at Metaltown 2009
Background information
Born	February 26, 1973 (1973-02-26) (age 36)
Origin	Sweden
Genres	Death metal, Melodic death metal, Groove metal
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Bass guitar
Associated acts	At the Gates, The Haunted

Jonas Björler (born 26 February 1973) was the Bassist and one of the founding members of the melodic death metal band At the Gates, along with his twin brother Anders Björler, Tomas Lindberg, Alf Svensson, and Adrian Erlandsson.

In 1996 at the end of the European tours of their final album Slaughter of the Soul, At the Gates split up and Jonas became one of the founding members of the band The Haunted along with his brother Anders and drummer Erlandsson. He is currently the bassist of The Haunted and has been the only continuous member of this band together with Patrik Jensen

Discography

Demolition

• Hordes of Evil (demo) (1987)

Infestation

• When Sanity Ends (demo) (1990) Cover

At the Gates

• Gardens of Grief (EP) (1991)
• The Red In The Sky Is Ours (1992)
• With Fear I Kiss The Burning Darkness (1993)
• Terminal Spirit Disease (1994)
• Slaughter Of The Soul (1995)
• Suicidal Final Art (Compilation) (2001)

Terror

• Demo '94 (1994)

The Haunted

• Demo '97 (1997)
• The Haunted (1998)
• The Haunted Made Me Do It (2000)
• Live Rounds In Tokyo (2001)
• Caught on Tape (2002) DVD
• One Kill Wonder (2003)
• rEVOLVEr (2004)
• The Dead Eye (2006)
• Versus (The Haunted album) (2008)

Equipment

Basses

• Warwick Corvette Standard (Current)
• Warwick Streamer
• Yamaha 5 stringed (At the Gates)
• BC Rich (At the Gates)
• Rickenbacker (At the Gates)

Effects

• RAT Distortion

Amplifiers

• Heads
  • EBS TDE 650 (Current)
  • EBS Fafner
  • Marshall (At the Gates)
• Cabinets
  • EBS 8x10" Neodynium (Current)

Misc

• Dunlop Tortex picks .88
• Ernie Ball strings

Personal Life

It's revealed that he plays the Quake video game series.

External links

• The Haunted homepage
• At the Gates homepage