letsgoooooooo

damn this goes into some really interesting places in the breakdown, fucking slaps

certified birb moment

It's ok. I've always struggled to get into Haken and after hearing this song that hasn't changed. Not bad but nothing special

There is so much going on and so much depth in this song. Haken never disappoints.

That's a good song. I have hopes for the new album to be better than Virus

Yeah, this song absolutely rips. They don't miss

Way too much Ross for my tastes, especially the first 3 minutes in particular I could probably do without. The rest is great

hyped to check. really liked vector but not as much as the 2 before it. same thing with virus but i didn't really come back to it at all after a listen or 2. I think it had to do with the theming not being as embodied tbh which is what I really have loved about these guys.

Understandable. Affinity is probably their worst album.

nobody asked

Affinity is one of their best agreed

lolno

lel yes

Αffinity is one of their best agreed [2]

Kalk bro, ily

Aw, thank you Myth
I'm not the biggest Haken fan, but sometimes I genuinely want to jam Affinity

This sounds like Opeth, Steven Wilson and BTBAM had a baby.

great song!

Dig it. Been following them since their last album "Virus" (great album).

been a fan since the release of the mountain

Slaps

Really liking this, better than anything on Virus imo.

Another Mountain-era fan here. This band has been amazing for so many years, something hard to achieve in prog metal nowadays

>This sounds like Opeth, Steven Wilson and BTBAM had a baby.

Really don't hear the first two on this, and BTBAM play on the same league so I don't feel like they are a direct influence, as much as that they share common ground

Virus was my aoty 2020, hyped for new album

Virus was pretty bland for a Haken album and now that they've lost Diego (the keyboardist) I'm curious as to which aspect of the sound will be gone as apparently they had big creative differences

Virus was the only Haken album I absolutely could not penetrate. And that's not to say it was too complex; quite the opposite, I understood it well. I just did not enjoy it despite it doing nothing particularly different from any of their other records.

That said, this does feel a touch more forward for them, which I dig.

I couldn't get into Affinity or Virus and absolutely love everything else they've done, if it weren't for those 2 albums they would be one of favorite bands for sure. Well I suppose they still are ONE of them

People still think The Mountain was a good album eh?

yeah its their best, clown.

It's okay to be wrong, just admit it lelele

Kalk, c'mon now, objectively The Mountain is an album

definitely one of the albums.

The Mountain is an album, let's agree on that

Visions will always be my fave Haken.

People still think The Mountain was a good album eh?

lol what, of course it's a "good" album at the bare minimum

Same pleb

Hehehe
The Mountain is fine of course. Not a favorite of mine, but it's competently done. This band is good at what they're doing.

Visions as their best is a based chad opinion. One I don't share anymore, but based nonetheless

thank god I don't understand what a chad is

I think it relates to Red Hot Chili Peppers, perhaps it's a cheese?

>Visions best Haken

Nah bro, Vision's is a basic prog album, cooks great but the recipe is nothing new

mythodea once more making birbkind proud by being based and chadpilled.

Thanks Flug, but I read this as ''birbking'', so not much to feel proud about

i do not care what you read it as, quite frankly.

Spoke as a true birb king

birdkink

This is truly a culmination of everything, the intro is Visions, the verse is Mountain, the pre-chorus/chorus is very Vector/Virus, I get Affinity vibes from the breakdown. Either way, happy to see the band still pushing the envelope with their sounds and song structures and making consistently good music while they’re at it. Virus was great but I felt was losing some of the emotional grandeur that makes their early works special, and this seems to be re-injecting some of that. Hype!

Track is solid. Haken is wholly a well-oiled machine.
That last part, though. OOOOO that hits a spot for me. Good stuff.