Since Haken’s last album, 2020’s Virus, the band have parted company with long-standing keyboardist Diego Tejeida. The reason given was the standard ‘musical differences’ cliché, albeit worded as “very different musical visions”. As a result, Fauna, Haken’s seventh album, is…
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Arabs in Aspic Strange Frame of Mind – 2010 Continuing the theme of prog bands who don’t take themselves too seriously, Arabs in Aspic were firing on all cylinders when they produced their good-natured second album at the beginning of…
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Big Big Train English Electric Full Power – 2013 Originally issued as two separate albums and an EP, but clearly intended as one cohesive work, English Electric is simply my favourite album of the last ten years. Quintessentially English both…
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Getting to choose only ten albums in a ten-year span is, of course, impossible. Convincing yourself that the ten albums you HAVE chosen are indeed the best ten albums you have heard in the ten years from 2010 to 2019…
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Islington Assembly Hall, London Saturday, 16th March 2019 Bent Knee As Bent Knee take to the stage for the final night of their European tour supporting Haken, they are greeted by a healthy crowd curious to find out what this…
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In this update we feature: > Das Rad – Das Rad > Il Segno Del Comando – L’Incanto Dello Zero > Noisepoetnobody – Drone Box > Haken – L-1VE > Anathema – Internal Landscapes (Best of 2008-2018) > Cleaning Women…
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You probably wouldn’t have been expecting me to review Vector after my disparaging comments about 2016’s Affinity, and yet here I am. Just as I punish myself by watching the latest series of The Simpsons and The Walking Dead to…
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Haken – Academy 3, Manchester 24th March 2017 On their tenth anniversary Haken find themselves well established as leaders in the heavier progressive market. Could be a pressure or a curse yet they seem to be revelling in the fact…
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The Complex, Glendale, California, U.S.A. Saturday, 17th September 2016 One of the drawbacks to being a progressive rock fan that lives in the United States is how few bands get the opportunity to tour here. Since most of the bands…
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Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock this decade, you’ll have no doubt heard of Haken, the latest truly progressive band to take the world by storm. Despite being able to be broadly categorised with the humdrum tag of ‘prog-metal’,…
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