And every album so far has been a masterpiece, and I LOVE that you also offer albums as all-instrumentals. And a new one coming up so soon after the previous one, my God!!! Keep up the brilliant work!
Very proud I went to school with Richard & Ross. Serious boys - everything you produce is gold. Can't stop listening to The Mountain You're the best thing to happen to the prog scene since DT's Scenes From A Memory. Easily my favourite band at the moment - right up there with some of my other fav's like Sun Caged. Can't wait for your next album. Long live Haken!!! \m/
Why are bands like this so underated? It's probably one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. It's not fair. Thanks to all the great musicians who assembled this masterpiece with hard work, art, talent and soul
@Vinicius Borges : "Better" and "best" are merely personal opinions, and never have been nor never will be reality. But to my ears, this is worlds better too. Labire and even the rest of the band don't sound even half as good as this to me. Don't get me wrong, I love Dream Theater, and as a guitarist myself and even influenced by them. But this shit is deep man. Dream Theater are better technically I could agree, but technicality is nothing compared to the other elements these guys possess, like soul and the mystical and undefinable soundscape this band has attained. As difficult as it is, it's far easier to be technically proficient because it just takes practice and hard work. This though is not something one could teach or gain through practice and hard work alone.
"She may never return, but I can wait forever" I couldn't say why, but this part always touches profoundly... It's not like I have ever met a mermaid that could potententially save the world from an eternal flood but, I still relate to that somehow...
Mother of god, this is so close to perfection. The voice, the music, this live performance is a masterpiece. By the way, this song is a masterpiece too.
In my opinion, some of the best musicians and songwriters in the world. Your knowledge of musical theory must be truly out of this world. How many of you are classically trained??? As a 20 year old, I have listened to Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream Theater, Focus, PFM, Focus and Camel extensively, and you somehow manage to capture every single thing I love about this music and have made my musical life complete. Thank you HAKEN, please continue making the best music in the world. Peter
Honestly I think that the mountain is their worst album. Which is fucking saying something, because the Mountain is not even mediocre by any stretch of the imagination. These guys have not put out a single dud.
Affinity is their worst by far...Not a bad album but I think they lost a little bit melodic approach of the mountain. My favourite track is this and Pareidolia and favourite album being the Mountain btw.
@@rbnh9827 i think affinity is amazing, nonetheless I love all their albums equally and haken is one of these band whom i don't have a favorite song/album for, because i honestly can't choose since every song they have is amazing. Now i feel they took another path for their affinity album, focusing more on dynamics and complex time signatures rather than musicality, even though they still put 100% of their style and creativity into that album
Everytime I'm wheter sad or happy, I come here. This performance is my medicine for sadness and my happiness improver. Thanks for existing and making this masterpiece melody, Haken!
Have listened only to Aquarius but I have to say this: Haken is the new Dream Theater... It has all I want in a prog or no-prog band, good musicians, a good voice, good harmonies and melodies and passion... Ross is defenitely one of my favorite singers in prog. Glad to see them someday if they come to Argentina. Update: they did come to Argentina in 2019 and they kicked ass. Now they are coming back October 2023 and I couldn't be happier. 2nd edit: the October 2023 was unbelivable!! The best show I ever attended. I cant believe that 7 years since this comment and I can now say I saw them play Celestial Elixir!! Life is great
As great as The Astonishing is, it's a far more interesting read than it is a listen. And that's where I think Haken has always excelled. Telling a story through the course of an album that is complete while also being a characteristically cathartic listening experience. I can listen to the same Haken song on loop for hours and still get chills. The hype for Haken V is real.
I'd agree with this comment (which I appreciate is three years old!). The Astonishing was...okay. Distance Over Time was also...okay. I don't think DT have managed to reach the quality of Metropolis II, Images & Words or Octavarium in a long time. Still love the band, but Haken are worthy successors.
I think it's interesting how despite Ross's voice getting better over time (imo), this performance from so long ago has got to be his best, his voice is smooth and clear and just spot on
This is what a well rehearsed band sounds like. I haven't been blow away by a live performance in quite sometime by any band I listen to, but these guys have done it for me. Well done Haken, good to see progressive music alive and well in the modern day.
This has some album-tier sound quality. I ordered the album few days ago and got it yesterday; I didn't know this was a concept album until I read the little lyric book. Truly, truly great music.
This Diego Tejeida guy is so good... you can feel consistency and security in his playing. He is flawless. Probably the best instrumentist in the band. Also, Ross did great in this show. I've seen some other live performances in which he was a bit sloppy, but he nailed the vocals in this one.
You should have seen their second show during Progressive Nation at Sea. His workstation plumitted to the ground druing a song. I feld sooo bad for the guy. That same show, charlie's string broke, Rays cymbal stand fell over and Ross had a terrible feedback. Richard seemed to be the only guy without bad luck. Poor guys. Anyway, I have also heard recordings of shows where I was and I noticed that sometimes recordings might capture some dissonant singing while the real performance was spot on. I don't know what causes this. Every three times I saw these guys live they were as good as here.
Anyone who complains about Ross' live vocals, just show them this video. I'd argue that this performance makes it obvious that he deserves to be famous.
I saw Haken in Oslo this year, and all I can add is that Ross was fantastic, just like the rest of the band. One of the best live performances I have seen. The only other performance that comes close was Dream Theater on the Awake-tour...back when they were REALLY good.
Quite possibly the most beautiful rock composition of the millennium. This song is like taking mushrooms for the first time, a legitimate spiritual experience. I had genuine tears of joy the first time I heard this song.
Ross is so unbelievably good here. I finally know why he sometimes sounds bad in other videos. It is because for some reason these guys aren't famous enough to get the venues with the good acoustics and monitoring.
Haken you beautiful bastards you've done it, in terms of just nailing the sound and really understanding how to write material in this vein, you're to this era of prog metal what Dream Theater was to the '90s/early 2000s. You are some of the real standard-bearers for the genre today. Incredible work for years, I love your growing exposure because I hear more Haken and the stuff is magic. Well done, lads, well DONE! Keep it up, Virus was amazing!! I can't wait to see what else you have in store for us, it's a delight to be a fan.
that was beautiful, i got chills when they started doing the wave. at around 10:30. Such an epic band, epic sound. Some call it cheesy, i say its fucking epic. In leagues with giant orchestras or movie themes. Muted the vid and played the actual song, these guys are as tight as btbam. Pretty much matches 99% of the time.
Just amazing song. Have to say though that this is the best song of Haken has done yet. The chorus is so touching and the song is very nicely balanced with emotion, feeling and proggressive moments.
I remember when I discovered haken at some point in 2012. That "Finally! Some GOOD music and interesting compositions!" feeling that I couldn't find listening to any other prog band.Aquarius, visions and the mountain, masterpieces.
8 some odd years later, this is still my favorite thing to come out of all Progressive music, this video right here. Before COVID I'd listen to this video on the day to work every single day, and it'd put me in such a good mood and started my day right. Love this video and you guys 💙
First time i really was listening to this song, on my way to work in the bus.... I usually try to work, but with this song on my headphones, all i could do was put my head back and just mellow out. No work could be done, but i didnt care. This song is just so damn good. I really love these guys. Best band in a while since i started with DT and Sx. Now it is only this band that runs in my MP4 player.
conheci recentemente. nos últimos 5 anos eu nunca tinha escutado algo que me fosse tão diferente e tão incrível como essa banda, e em especial, esta música.
A real pleasure to hear a singer that can actually sings and doesn't sound like one of the many clones out there.These guys are good musicians,great songwriters...a great moment of music.
Wanna know what's wrong with the world? This was released 10 years ago and only 5,000 have witnessed the incredible beauty they created. It's criminal, like hiding all the Rembrants and VanGoghs in a basement.
I always come back to this performance. I love the direction they've taken with the last two albums, but there's kind of a nerdy, geeky, bombastic, over the top innocence to their sound and performance here. I love it.
the complexity of the riffs blends well with all the elements of musics that they combined in this song...the circus part...and the verse part...and especially the chorus part brought tears to my eyes...its beyond epic...they seem very honest with what they are doing and i can tell that they are very down to earth type people...i been listening to death metal,brutal death metal,grindcore,post rock u name it and now i slowly shifted to progressive...besides opeth...this band is my fav band im glad to say that this will be my new addiction...
This is really brilliant. I've actually been in the middle of a death metal kick of late, so stumbling on the 'Pareidolia' was a happy accident. I've probably been responsible for half its plays since then. When people lament that there's no great music being made these days, I think about bands like Haken, and I have no idea what they mean. Okay, fawning over.
I just recently acquired all of your albums. This was the first song I heard. So damn Impressed! My God I was blown away. Amazing music, amazing talent, amazing lyrics. Definitely got yourselves another fan in me . Hail Haken!
I just heard of this band tonight from a guildie in an MMO I play (Vindictus) and this may just be my favorite band now along with Stimpy Lockjaw (if you haven't heard them, give it a listen). I've been looking for music like this for decades now and super surprised I never heard of them until now. They have all the elements I felt that modern prog has been missing since Rush and Yes entered the commercialism of the 80's and I lost interest in prog and became a thrash metal/neo classical guitarist for a long time. Sure, I love bands like Dream Theater etc too, but imo even they never came close to this as far as feeling, emoting, soul, mysticism, and a unique sound that no one else could ever duplicate. Perhaps Dream Theater could be said to be even more technically proficient, but even for a prog band technicality is secondary to all these other qualities that are much harder to define and become adept at. I think Rush proved that, even up to the end of their long and fantastic career as a band. I've never got the chills from listening to prog since I was a Rush fan as a kid. Only Stimpy Lockjaw has come close. But Haken is working for me big time. Way too many people my age say that prog, and rock in general would never be the same or worsem the genres are dead (lols, no). But I've always stood my ground and told them they just weren't open to new experience and the kids these days were every bit as capable. Only the music industry itself was to blame. Thanks Haken for proving me right finally. I didn't need proof personally, but now I have it anyway, lols. P.S. I see a lot of comments suggesting other prog bands, and since I am both middle-aged and live in a very rural sparsely populated area far from my home city of Oakland/Berkeley California, I never hear of great bands anymore from fellow musicians and friends irl now. So I rely on you guys to help steer me towards the good stuff. S thanks in advance for the suggestions that at least some I am sure I will enjoy.
Me too. They are all I've been listening to since I heard my first song last week. Found them by reading comments on the new DT album songs on RUclips. Visions and this one are on my top 2. LOVE LOVE LOVE them!
Fantastic performance. Haken are leagues ahead of all the contemporary prog rock I've heard. You can hear their influences, but Haken remain unmistakably Haken!
Omg guys....this shit is brilliant 👏 🙌 I have no idea where a song will go! It's a musical road trip, and I'm not the one driving, I'm just along for the ride 🎶 😎 TAKE ME AROUND TOWN BOYS
Being a good songwriter is as much a challenge as being a good musician, and some people have both, these guys blend both tastefully and you essentially summed up the most fundamental features of any song. Say what you want about Haken but you can't deny their creativity
not encyclopedia metallum of course... bunch of elitist pricks being like "this isn't trve cvlt" and whatsoever. You could say they aren't metal, but only because they don't really fit in any genre completely. But people often seem to forget that this is EXACTLY what Progressive music is about :D
Cada instrumento se luce, la voz es increíble, te hacen imaginar nuevos mundos, sin lugar a dudas lograran ser una de las mejores bandas del planeta. Saludos desde México.
First heard Visions and was stunned, and 2 years later I can listen to that song every day for 20 odd minutes and don't get sick of it, even better I'm like "YES" when it shuffles in my playlist.
I've loved Haken since seeing them at HRH Prog 1 Festival in Rotherham (UK), just my kind of thing, really well done all round lads !......... I love the lead vocals in particular on this one, nice work !
absolutley stunning, the only song that almost had the displeasure to make me cry. i have listened to 3:30 -> about 30 times today and besides the carneval music and the kind of flight of the bumblebee its so emotional and breathtaking
+Wrathchild6803 its like dream theater in their times of greatness... this band is so amazing.. this song.. is emotional to the max... his voice.. is perfect! and they sound excelent live!
Waiting for the inevitable U.S. tour to hear this madness for myself! I started attending PPUSA the year after you guys, and anxiously await the day I will witness such a glorious performance!
I have seen you in Reichenbach Germany and I shaked your Hands. I am very proud. I´m a big new fan from you. You are me second favorite behind Dream Theater. But this time i only hear Haken where i am.
I think this is the video I look at the most on RUclips... Thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much guys. Can't wait to see you in France in 2019
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No playback. We always play everything LIVE!
Please come to NM
GOOD!
Los amo, su música me ayuda a sobrellevar esta cuarentena 💖
And every album so far has been a masterpiece, and I LOVE that you also offer albums as all-instrumentals. And a new one coming up so soon after the previous one, my God!!! Keep up the brilliant work!
@@NoeliaFernandez lo mismo.
Very proud I went to school with Richard & Ross.
Serious boys - everything you produce is gold.
Can't stop listening to The Mountain
You're the best thing to happen to the prog scene since DT's Scenes From A Memory.
Easily my favourite band at the moment - right up there with some of my other fav's like Sun Caged.
Can't wait for your next album.
Long live Haken!!!
\m/
Martin Tyrrell 😱😱😱 you went to school with Ross and Rich, that’s awesome, and I agree 100% Haken is Pure gold, they are insane
amen!
I totally agree!!! "Nantucket Sleighride" by Mountain is one of my all-time favorite albums.
Why are bands like this so underated? It's probably one of the best pieces of music I've ever heard. It's not fair. Thanks to all the great musicians who assembled this masterpiece with hard work, art, talent and soul
Nothing gives me more joy than seeing such grown men enjoy themselves. A rare sight indeed.
Man the vocals are so perfect. Doesnt feel like its the live version at all.
batter than James Labrie
@@TestaBorges you had to be "that" guy?
@@TestaBorges you compared two vocalist in the two different band
but i agree
@Vinicius Borges : "Better" and "best" are merely personal opinions, and never have been nor never will be reality. But to my ears, this is worlds better too. Labire and even the rest of the band don't sound even half as good as this to me. Don't get me wrong, I love Dream Theater, and as a guitarist myself and even influenced by them. But this shit is deep man.
Dream Theater are better technically I could agree, but technicality is nothing compared to the other elements these guys possess, like soul and the mystical and undefinable soundscape this band has attained. As difficult as it is, it's far easier to be technically proficient because it just takes practice and hard work. This though is not something one could teach or gain through practice and hard work alone.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 as long as you're only expressing that as an opinion, because asserting facts in music tends not to work
Honestly, the best recorded live performance of HAKEN. blooooody hell!
Agreed!
To be fair this is one of the few performances where Ross doesn't sound like a bag of shit
Exactly my thoughts... ross nailed it. Hopefully we will get something with similar sound and performance quality in the future!!!
The vocalists range is incredible. He's perfect for this band. I can't imagine anybody with a better voice for progressive.
VejyMonsta for some reason, a lot of prog singers have curly hair
VejyMonsta Russel Allen maybe?
+zxwart Russel is my favorite vocalist EVER!
+VejyMonsta He is fukkin' incredible.
+VejyMonsta My two favorite voices of all time are Devin Townsend and Daniel Gildenlow. This guy is great though! :)
"She may never return, but I can wait forever"
I couldn't say why, but this part always touches profoundly... It's not like I have ever met a mermaid that could potententially save the world from an eternal flood but, I still relate to that somehow...
Mother of god, this is so close to perfection. The voice, the music, this live performance is a masterpiece. By the way, this song is a masterpiece too.
These guys are definitly the heirs to the prog throne!
And after Affinity and Vector I think it is safe to assume that they sit heavily on that throne now. Can do no wrong!
Agreed
11:00 the best moment Haken has ever written, and one of the best moments in music TBH.
Agree
Notes Reviews I FREAKIN LOVE THAT PART, GIVES ME MAJOR CHILLS, so amazing, Haken is surely legendary
So Dream Theater-esque yet so distinct. Watching the crowd wave makes it so much more beautiful.
Absolute perfection forever and ever.
This is the most underrated song in human history. They may play around and have fun, but god this song has an unmatched mood to it.
In my opinion, some of the best musicians and songwriters in the world.
Your knowledge of musical theory must be truly out of this world.
How many of you are classically trained???
As a 20 year old, I have listened to Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Yes, Dream Theater, Focus, PFM, Focus and Camel extensively, and you somehow manage to capture every single thing I love about this music and have made my musical life complete.
Thank you HAKEN, please continue making the best music in the world.
Peter
That section around 2:02 where Charlie, Richard, Deigo and Thomas are playing the same thing is incredible. This band is mind blowing
My 1000th time watching this video. Is not enough.
This stuff is so otherworldly... I found the Mountain quite impressive, but this track... I really fell in love with this band.
twofoursevenlol and i thought i was the only one who felt like this..
Honestly I think that the mountain is their worst album. Which is fucking saying something, because the Mountain is not even mediocre by any stretch of the imagination. These guys have not put out a single dud.
Affinity is their worst by far...Not a bad album but I think they lost a little bit melodic approach of the mountain. My favourite track is this and Pareidolia and favourite album being the Mountain btw.
@@rbnh9827 i think affinity is amazing, nonetheless I love all their albums equally and haken is one of these band whom i don't have a favorite song/album for, because i honestly can't choose since every song they have is amazing. Now i feel they took another path for their affinity album, focusing more on dynamics and complex time signatures rather than musicality, even though they still put 100% of their style and creativity into that album
@@dsaillant811 I cannot pick a worst Haken album, but it wouldn't be the Mountain. Stellar piece of progressive art, that is
Everytime I'm wheter sad or happy, I come here. This performance is my medicine for sadness and my happiness improver. Thanks for existing and making this masterpiece melody, Haken!
I feel the same
Have listened only to Aquarius but I have to say this: Haken is the new Dream Theater... It has all I want in a prog or no-prog band, good musicians, a good voice, good harmonies and melodies and passion... Ross is defenitely one of my favorite singers in prog. Glad to see them someday if they come to Argentina.
Update: they did come to Argentina in 2019 and they kicked ass. Now they are coming back October 2023 and I couldn't be happier.
2nd edit: the October 2023 was unbelivable!! The best show I ever attended. I cant believe that 7 years since this comment and I can now say I saw them play Celestial Elixir!! Life is great
Manuel you should check out native construct as well
dude they are pissing on dream theater in the creativity department,this is coming from someone who has johnpetrucci in his username
As great as The Astonishing is, it's a far more interesting read than it is a listen. And that's where I think Haken has always excelled. Telling a story through the course of an album that is complete while also being a characteristically cathartic listening experience. I can listen to the same Haken song on loop for hours and still get chills.
The hype for Haken V is real.
I'd agree with this comment (which I appreciate is three years old!). The Astonishing was...okay. Distance Over Time was also...okay. I don't think DT have managed to reach the quality of Metropolis II, Images & Words or Octavarium in a long time. Still love the band, but Haken are worthy successors.
Lmao I was thinking for a moment “when did I write a comment on this video?”
I think it's interesting how despite Ross's voice getting better over time (imo), this performance from so long ago has got to be his best, his voice is smooth and clear and just spot on
Very talented musicians. The voice really blends perfectly to the music.
This is what a well rehearsed band sounds like. I haven't been blow away by a live performance in quite sometime by any band I listen to, but these guys have done it for me. Well done Haken, good to see progressive music alive and well in the modern day.
I totally dig patema, you guys are gonna be the future of prog 🤘
This has some album-tier sound quality. I ordered the album few days ago and got it yesterday; I didn't know this was a concept album until I read the little lyric book. Truly, truly great music.
Beautiful description!
This Diego Tejeida guy is so good... you can feel consistency and security in his playing. He is flawless. Probably the best instrumentist in the band.
Also, Ross did great in this show. I've seen some other live performances in which he was a bit sloppy, but he nailed the vocals in this one.
You should have seen their second show during Progressive Nation at Sea. His workstation plumitted to the ground druing a song. I feld sooo bad for the guy. That same show, charlie's string broke, Rays cymbal stand fell over and Ross had a terrible feedback. Richard seemed to be the only guy without bad luck. Poor guys.
Anyway, I have also heard recordings of shows where I was and I noticed that sometimes recordings might capture some dissonant singing while the real performance was spot on. I don't know what causes this. Every three times I saw these guys live they were as good as here.
Robert Fennis That could be the case. And I hope it is :)
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the singer's incredible vocal abilities? This is by far one of the most talented singers i have heard so far.
This kind of music was so much ambitious... I wish a return to this... One day !
It's why Aquarius is my favorite Haken album!
Anyone who complains about Ross' live vocals, just show them this video. I'd argue that this performance makes it obvious that he deserves to be famous.
This is surely one of the best performances, but if you check out some other concerts some times he's not so in tune.
I saw Haken in Oslo this year, and all I can add is that Ross was fantastic, just like the rest of the band. One of the best live performances I have seen. The only other performance that comes close was Dream Theater on the Awake-tour...back when they were REALLY good.
Rarely will you see such musical craftsmanship on stage live, you lucky lucky people out there in the crowd. Must of been pure magic.
Quite possibly the most beautiful rock composition of the millennium. This song is like taking mushrooms for the first time, a legitimate spiritual experience. I had genuine tears of joy the first time I heard this song.
Ross is so unbelievably good here. I finally know why he sometimes sounds bad in other videos. It is because for some reason these guys aren't famous enough to get the venues with the good acoustics and monitoring.
this Video is doing that to me now!
Weird, I actually just took a dump while listening to this song.
That was just a coincidence that you were sat on the toilet. It was actually the shit being blown out of your arse :P
@@nibsabbath1825 mustve been the best dump youve ever taken then ;).
I feel sorry for the millions of people out there who haven't heard this...
Haken you beautiful bastards you've done it, in terms of just nailing the sound and really understanding how to write material in this vein, you're to this era of prog metal what Dream Theater was to the '90s/early 2000s. You are some of the real standard-bearers for the genre today. Incredible work for years, I love your growing exposure because I hear more Haken and the stuff is magic. Well done, lads, well DONE! Keep it up, Virus was amazing!! I can't wait to see what else you have in store for us, it's a delight to be a fan.
What a masterpiece...
Hi! Do you know Maestrick? A Brazilian prog metal band!
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that was beautiful, i got chills when they started doing the wave. at around 10:30. Such an epic band, epic sound. Some call it cheesy, i say its fucking epic. In leagues with giant orchestras or movie themes.
Muted the vid and played the actual song, these guys are as tight as btbam. Pretty much matches 99% of the time.
They probably use click tracks like BtBAM does as well, I'm sure. This stuff would be crazy without one.
so true dude so true, prog is definitely not for the faint of heart especially with the length of these songs.
I almost never listen to just sings anymore. These albums deserve to be listened to in full.
Tight, or by-the-books?
Damn, I want to see this band so bad.
no shit, i wish they'd come to los angeles
Or, you know, America in general.
DiscGolfer947 Wasn't this in Atlanta?
Just amazing song. Have to say though that this is the best song of Haken has done yet. The chorus is so touching and the song is very nicely balanced with emotion, feeling and proggressive moments.
my life will never be complete before i see this band live
Haken is the best band of our generation and possibly the best of our time.
I remember when I discovered haken at some point in 2012. That "Finally! Some GOOD music and interesting compositions!" feeling that I couldn't find listening to any other prog band.Aquarius, visions and the mountain, masterpieces.
8 some odd years later, this is still my favorite thing to come out of all Progressive music, this video right here. Before COVID I'd listen to this video on the day to work every single day, and it'd put me in such a good mood and started my day right. Love this video and you guys 💙
The best British band of last years!
Such an emotional song.
To this day, still the best recorded live Haken song. Prefer this over the entire L1VE album
First time i really was listening to this song, on my way to work in the bus....
I usually try to work, but with this song on my headphones, all i could do was put my head back and just mellow out. No work could be done, but i didnt care. This song is just so damn good. I really love these guys. Best band in a while since i started with DT and Sx. Now it is only this band that runs in my MP4 player.
one of the best songs I've ever heard
happy new year!!
Que banda, que musica senhores! o.O
conheci recentemente. nos últimos 5 anos eu nunca tinha escutado algo que me fosse tão diferente e tão incrível como essa banda, e em especial, esta música.
A real pleasure to hear a singer that can actually sings and doesn't sound like one of the many clones out there.These guys are good musicians,great songwriters...a great moment of music.
Wanna know what's wrong with the world? This was released 10 years ago and only 5,000 have witnessed the incredible beauty they created. It's criminal, like hiding all the Rembrants and VanGoghs in a basement.
I strongly agree!
I always come back to this performance. I love the direction they've taken with the last two albums, but there's kind of a nerdy, geeky, bombastic, over the top innocence to their sound and performance here. I love it.
New Haken, usually, but old Haken when I'm feeling silly.😋
the complexity of the riffs blends well with all the elements of musics that they combined in this song...the circus part...and the verse part...and especially the chorus part brought tears to my eyes...its beyond epic...they seem very honest with what they are doing and i can tell that they are very down to earth type people...i been listening to death metal,brutal death metal,grindcore,post rock u name it and now i slowly shifted to progressive...besides opeth...this band is my fav band im glad to say that this will be my new addiction...
I think this is my favorite video on youtube, I can't count how many times I've watched this live, it's gorgeous.
This is really brilliant. I've actually been in the middle of a death metal kick of late, so stumbling on the 'Pareidolia' was a happy accident. I've probably been responsible for half its plays since then. When people lament that there's no great music being made these days, I think about bands like Haken, and I have no idea what they mean.
Okay, fawning over.
I just recently acquired all of your albums. This was the first song I heard. So damn Impressed! My God I was blown away. Amazing music, amazing talent, amazing lyrics. Definitely got yourselves another fan in me . Hail Haken!
Excelent Band ¡¡
"She may never return, but I can wait forever.
If we can't make amends,
I'll chase your rainbow till the end...".. GREAT ¡¡
I just heard of this band tonight from a guildie in an MMO I play (Vindictus) and this may just be my favorite band now along with Stimpy Lockjaw (if you haven't heard them, give it a listen). I've been looking for music like this for decades now and super surprised I never heard of them until now. They have all the elements I felt that modern prog has been missing since Rush and Yes entered the commercialism of the 80's and I lost interest in prog and became a thrash metal/neo classical guitarist for a long time.
Sure, I love bands like Dream Theater etc too, but imo even they never came close to this as far as feeling, emoting, soul, mysticism, and a unique sound that no one else could ever duplicate. Perhaps Dream Theater could be said to be even more technically proficient, but even for a prog band technicality is secondary to all these other qualities that are much harder to define and become adept at. I think Rush proved that, even up to the end of their long and fantastic career as a band.
I've never got the chills from listening to prog since I was a Rush fan as a kid. Only Stimpy Lockjaw has come close. But Haken is working for me big time. Way too many people my age say that prog, and rock in general would never be the same or worsem the genres are dead (lols, no). But I've always stood my ground and told them they just weren't open to new experience and the kids these days were every bit as capable. Only the music industry itself was to blame.
Thanks Haken for proving me right finally. I didn't need proof personally, but now I have it anyway, lols.
P.S. I see a lot of comments suggesting other prog bands, and since I am both middle-aged and live in a very rural sparsely populated area far from my home city of Oakland/Berkeley California, I never hear of great bands anymore from fellow musicians and friends irl now. So I rely on you guys to help steer me towards the good stuff. S thanks in advance for the suggestions that at least some I am sure I will enjoy.
Me too. They are all I've been listening to since I heard my first song last week. Found them by reading comments on the new DT album songs on RUclips. Visions and this one are on my top 2. LOVE LOVE LOVE them!
Absolutely amazing song, vocals just superb. Blows me away every time I listen.
I love the keyboard sound on the solo arround 10:50.. reminds me a lot of DT's beneath the surface.
I love Celestial Elixir, is simply one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. Greetings from Argentina
Fantastic performance. Haken are leagues ahead of all the contemporary prog rock I've heard. You can hear their influences, but Haken remain unmistakably Haken!
Omg guys....this shit is brilliant 👏 🙌
I have no idea where a song will go! It's a musical road trip, and I'm not the one driving, I'm just along for the ride 🎶 😎
TAKE ME AROUND TOWN BOYS
His voice is really nice
Being a good songwriter is as much a challenge as being a good musician, and some people have both, these guys blend both tastefully and you essentially summed up the most fundamental features of any song. Say what you want about Haken but you can't deny their creativity
Such amazing musicianship and a great great voice.
Please come to south America
finally found prog band I like
Supreme performance
Possibly the greatest live snare I've ever heard...
so true hahahaha
drums in general
I have to say Anesthetize by Porcupine Tree live beats it, but not by much
Np , the gavin harisson s in porcupine tree is the best !
the people who dared to write negative reviews for this album on a
certain website can all burn in hell this is fucking incredible
not encyclopedia metallum of course... bunch of elitist pricks being like "this isn't trve cvlt" and whatsoever. You could say they aren't metal, but only because they don't really fit in any genre completely. But people often seem to forget that this is EXACTLY what Progressive music is about :D
as if it wasn't obvious lol. they hate on so many good albums but then they'll go and rave about some boring ass death metal band. :( fuckers
for me, best band ever.
yup, added to favorites. fucking beautiful
Cada instrumento se luce, la voz es increíble, te hacen imaginar nuevos mundos, sin lugar a dudas lograran ser una de las mejores bandas del planeta. Saludos desde México.
Haken - the only metal band that makes u headbang and dance at the same time
Best album debut, estos chicos son tremendos. Les espera un gran futuro en el prog, como dicen son los nuevos "Dream Theater", haran historia.
So fucking amazing.
Epic !!!
0:54 Great Dance jajaja !!! EXCELENT HAKEN
first song I hear of them and already my new favorite band
First heard Visions and was stunned, and 2 years later I can listen to that song every day for 20 odd minutes and don't get sick of it, even better I'm like "YES" when it shuffles in my playlist.
Awesome!! A real dream the day you come to Brazil!! I have to go to England to watch you live
Whenever I listen to this song I need to make sure I'm not preoccupied - because if I'm busy...I'm fucked
Oh my God....it's AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We need a live DVD!!
I've loved Haken since seeing them at HRH Prog 1 Festival in Rotherham (UK), just my kind of thing, really well done all round lads !......... I love the lead vocals in particular on this one, nice work !
So bad they're not famous as they deserve! I wish I could hit the like button a billion times!
The new generation prog metal band HAKEN!!!!!!
Genuinely indeed.
Best live band I've ever heard/seen! They were amazing over in the Uk.
amazing at all fronts !
Love this part 10:50
Absoutely Hypnotic!! saw them support Mike Portnoy this year in Sydney Aus. AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! His voice rocks and the band were so tight!
Such a masterpiece!!
absolutley stunning, the only song that almost had the displeasure to make me cry. i have listened to 3:30 -> about 30 times today and besides the carneval music and the kind of flight of the bumblebee its so emotional and breathtaking
10:50 I can't remember the last time a song had made me so emotional until I heard this :)
+Wrathchild6803 its like dream theater in their times of greatness... this band is so amazing.. this song.. is emotional to the max... his voice.. is perfect! and they sound excelent live!
this is a masterpiece
Dude that latest album i just heard it and damn it was just genuis i was blown away too one of the best albums i have ever heard!
ho my god, the singer has progressed like hell ! It's awesome !
Waiting for the inevitable U.S. tour to hear this madness for myself! I started attending PPUSA the year after you guys, and anxiously await the day I will witness such a glorious performance!
I have seen you in Reichenbach Germany and I shaked your Hands.
I am very proud. I´m a big new fan from you. You are me second favorite behind Dream Theater. But this time i only hear Haken where i am.
I think this is the video I look at the most on RUclips... Thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much guys.
Can't wait to see you in France in 2019
They deserve so much. They're so fucking talented
As the vocals started just went on on a trance... amazing.. accidently found Haken... amazing composition