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Haken

Heavy Prog

4.05 | 284 ratings

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Have to say that Haken turns into one of my fav bands during this last years. The mixture of hard prog metal sections and pure symphonic movements is very intense and totally captivating.

Perhaps the three songs of this EP are not totally original but renewed versions of old tracks, I really appreciate Haken hard work which turns this songs into very powerful and surprising epics.

Even when I feel a certain lack of creativity in here, the album has in "Darkest Light" a great and strong metal opener that sounds a little bit "Dream Theater" to me. "Earthlings" is the more "melodic" song of this EP and have some awsome dark atmospherical moments based on guitar. The long epic "Crystallised" is an almos 20 minutes mixture of all the styles played by Haken on their previous albums, from pure prog metal to experimental and delightful complex sections.

Not the best of Haken but a very strong bunch of songs that confirms Haken as one of the most interesting bands nowadays... 3.5*

progadicto | 3/5 | 2015-1-31

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