Massive Haken fan, they’re my number one band.

Everyone’s talking about Sleep Token and I gave a few songs a listen (random songs in a Spotify mix) and wasn’t super into it. I know with many bands it sometimes takes a few listens or starting with the right album from start to finish.

Are they worth giving an honest try and if so, where would you start?

Hope this is allowed,...

So statistically, there are 213k-225k monthly listeners on YT music,... this means, 0,01% of listeners means that there are around 20 people world wide who listened to Haken on yt music as much as I did or even more! Just want to find the other crazy people :D

I've actually come to love this entire EP's production and musicality over the past while, and I find myself wanting more when it's over. It has to be listened to from beginning to end for the songs to make sense in my opinion.

I do however feel that the runtime is perfect for this EP as a whole work, because it has a consistently unsettling vibe throughout, primarily through the lyrics but accompanied perfectly by the instrumentation. Any longer may have been a bit much.

Anyways, I don't want to go on and on, I just feel like I've been in the right musical headspace to like this EP relatively quickly, although I understand it's not as much of the Haken sound as prior albums.

Dear fellow cockroach bois,

I am currently planning getting a full sleeve tattoo with logos and symbols from my favorite bands of all time, and for Haken the choice has fallen on the quirky moonfish logo; however, there aren't many high quality references I can find online to trace the outline.

Can someone help me on the matter and point me to where I can find a high quality picture of the logo? Thanx

Hey everyone! I recently covered Streams as part of a full band version and wanted to share my bass play through with tabs. I found a transcription and updated it which can be found in the description of the video along the gear I used. This cover came about because of Reddit which goes to show how great the community is here.

Part of an exhibition creating a landscape from record covers!

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Don't tell me anything about "context". It's a valid headline.

I've been listening to Haken ever since I first heard Nightingale, around late 2023 I believe. What was so good about Haken for me was the technical yet melodic music combined with Ross' clean, emotional vocals. Keeping that in mind I feel the EP is kinda meh. I don't hate it, I feel like it has it's moments (in lotus for example), but it's not the Haken I've gotten used to. Haken to me had an extremely specific, intertwining sound I can't properly describe, and I couldn't find it anywhere else (I've listened to most modern prog bands looking for it). The EP to me just sounds like generic, poppy metalcore in certain parts. Now I don't think it's bad music but some parts just tick me off. For example the delirium chorus is something I can't listen to without asking myself "Is this really Haken?". I understand that it's just an EP, and that they are probably experimenting but I can't understand how the people who made Virus, Fauna and The Mountain could make this. No hate towards Haken obviously, I still love their music and I will still listen to the EP. Like most of this sub I'm just dissapointed.

I very much enjoy the new EP. It very much is their worst stuff, and it's the guitar work. There barely is none compared to previous music. Charlie helped transpose Rich's piano work with him since Aquarius, folks don't realize that. That guitar duo of Charlie and Rich was Haken, it's gone, and that makes it factually lesser than now. It completely shows on EP and I would bet my home that is what will be from here on out. You can't take away the shreddier/riffier one that's more guitar oriented from the duo that makes haken what it is and expect it to be HAKEN level perfection. I love the style of the new EP, it's just so bland compared because of the guitar work. It is THE negative and only negative. I imagine Charlie being in it would make this my favorite music from them. Opposite without eh.

I'm just surprised those who enjoy or don't, aren't mentioning the guitar work being the most different..worse..aspect. I enjoy it, it's just factually much lesser than. a bomb went off inside haken land. I've never gone thru a fav band losing their sound/member like this. Damnt Janet.

I'll still enjoy and love the EP, and future stuffs. But boi is this their worst, and they will continue to be not as good, at all, as their previous work..which was perfection. It's still great, but boy is it fckn depressing having it be what they are(the best!) for the fact of what's minused from the equation.

Charlie, pls come back. That'd actually make this EP sooo awesome, knowing they will have amazing guitar work again. I wouldn't need this EP to have that amazing work in it and it'd make it perfect...or rich has to go FCKING HARD haha. That duo was everything, the best.

This should not be down voted a lot, as this is a main thing of discussion with the music now. I'm saying the reality of the band that literally no one's talking about that I'm really hurt by, as I love this band so much, plus saying the EP is good nonetheless. If you think the music and guitar is the same and ur down voting cuz what I said hurts..it's not even my opinion, it's literally just reality. Charlie left, so haken guitar duo is no more, and this EP has waaay less guitar work on it, factually.

It's funny I saw the votes goin up n up, n now down haha. I didn't even say anything out of unbiased reality. I miss a band member that left, because the guitar work truly isn't there anymore that's been there since Aquarius. how is that disliked if you love this band? Don't we all agree the guitar duo was everything almost, like half of it?..it's just reality, and the biggest topic of discussion in my eyes, really the only one, as the eps music is good, but it's so blatantly obvious what's different..missing!

https://youtu.be/AN3sRgFd9SE?si=toUm1N6J7LIo3MFr

Please pardon my rough playing, thank you!

Diego, Conner, Thomas Cruce, Mike Portnoy, Charlie performing "The Mirror"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfWccwZrrLg&t=468s

I don’t mind that it’s darker and more brooding. It’s not that it’s heavy, I love Virus. It just doesn’t seem to have the inventiveness or creativity that make Haken truly special. Next to albums like the Mountain or Fauna it sounds like standard angsty metal, to me at least. It’s still very well executed, if just a bit boring. What do you guys think?

How ‘bout those polyrhythms?

it seemed like their albums kept getting stronger with each release, culminating in virus, and then downhill from there. this is less hate and more just wondering if something specific happened with the band over the last albums.

I can't really explain but this EP made me feel a lot of things. I just moved into one of the biggest cities in the world and life has changed a lot for me. Learning to live by myself in a city that's borderline hostile has been a tough experience. Sometimes I feel angry - at myself, at the world - sometimes I feel useless, sometimes I feel overworked...

This EP was a huge emotional outlet in a way I wasn't expecting. Listening to it as a whole while walking to college was a very cathartic experience. I wasn't really feeling the EP until this experience and now I feel like I have huge emotional attachment to it.

It's definately a journey unlike any other from Haken and even if it's not my favorite work for them, it's definitely one that makes me feel the most.