VECTOR

This is a good example of Haken doing their own version of Train Of Thought (Dream Theater). However, this is quite a brilliant album for sure. I love the djent elements, this album sounds like an over the top version of Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree. Clear is a very weird and oddly heavy intro section, lots of keyboards, and just a ton of ambience. The Good Doctor is a kinda Porcupine Tree single, Ross Jennings is a very good vocalist but I'm going to go ahead and say that he sounds like Mariusz Duda of Riverside. The intricate and well written guitar intro is very catchy and intriguing. Everyone plays very well on this album, the patterns intertwine in a very complex and clever way. Puzzle Box is very dynamic, lots of djent, lots of vocal driven moments, plenty of odd times, and quite a few polyrhythmic sections. Veil is the epic on the album, it's also very dynamic, it had a bunch of solos from all musicians and I think that this is just ... one of the softer songs on this album... even though it's still heavy. Nil By Mouth is the heaviest piece on the album, totally djent driven, has a bit of keyboards but this is completely guitar driven. Its instrumental so there is no Ross Jennings, thanks for that but also I really want to know what this would sound like with Ross's voice. Host is a very soft song but it has a dark side, it has a very heavy end and it's good vocal melodies. This song is easily the softest on the album and frankly it's a nice break from the heavy side of Haken. A Cell Divides is the other extremely heavy song on the album, it's like Nil By Mouth but with vocals and some a hard hitting piece to end off this album. This along with The Mountain are the best albums by the band so far. Let's hope that Virus is just as good... maybe better. Haken has two sides to them, a heavy side and a complex and classic side. This is the heavy side and I think that this works just as well as the classical and complex side.