Album Rating: 5.0

Abdicate the throoooooooohne,

(AHH HAAHHHHH HAHHH)

Gold topples the crown

(AHH HAAHHHHH HAHHH)

Blood festers the ground



Fuckin' chills every time.

Album Rating: 3.5

"I've long since fallen off the prog train but oddly enough, my two favourite metal albums this year are prog metal (this and Burden of Life. check it out, boys)"



Burden of Life rules, agreed. I'm hit-or-miss with prog -- this feels like a hard 3.5 except for Canary Yellow, which is just gorgeous

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

you guys have caught my attention with Burden of Life, I admit.

Album Rating: 3.5

yeah Burden of Life doesn't really sound like Haken at all (it's pretty melodeathy) but I suspect that the kind of music fan who likes Haken would also like BoL

Album Rating: 5.0

men, this album is my aoty so far...

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Protest The Hero did a better job imo. And so did many others lol

Album Rating: 3.0

"men, this album is my aoty so far..."



How many albums have you listened to

Album Rating: 5.0

It's high up there for sure Vic. This and the Protest the Hero albums are pretty much in constant rotation for me.

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

I've been drifting away from prog these recent years, but I feel 2020 is my least prog year in preference. Every prog release I've been waiting has been at least mildly disappointing - apart from PtH, who still didn't change my worldview.

Album Rating: 5.0

You listen to the latest Pure Reason Revolution album? I wouldn't say it's wholly prog but that's another tasty one from this year.

Album Rating: 3.5 | Sound Off

Well the callbacks to previous albums have become less egregious with time, this is getting better and better

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

@WalrusTusk, Well, I did give it a try, but it didn't grab me. Perhaps I should spin it again sometime

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

not really tbh

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Oh, it does. Invasion and Carousel are genuinely awesome

Album Rating: 3.0 | Sound Off

3.5 =/= hits hard,though

Album Rating: 5.0

Bro, if "Messiah Complex" doesn't get you then you really must be going through a prog slump. That song is an incredible culmination of Vektor and this album.

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It's a nice prog suite, really enjoy the throwbacks. But overall it less than the sum of its parts imo. I don't feel like it works as a bigger composition

Album Rating: 5.0

I love how it just completely dissolves into madness before resolving as this triumphant, and simultaneously ironic ending. The Cockroach kind finally ascends and then accidentally kills himself in a moment of pure hubris. The whole song is so powerful and sinister. I think laughed at least three times the first time i listened to it just because I was enjoying what I was hearing so much.



In other words, i disagree haha. But I get Haken is not for everyone. What doesn't work for you?

Album Rating: 4.0 | Sound Off

I never read the lyrics tbh

Maybe I should

It's not like it's not working or anything, it's just that the album leaves me cold save for a few tracks

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Definitely not for everyone, but I really am puzzled how someone could be into this sort of thing and not love the ever living shit out of this album.