@president elect George Kirby I completely understand what you mean about the lack of emotions, and when he touched on the vocalist in the video, it clarified what always stopped me from truly liking Haken. The vocalist is very tight in his range during the chorus in most of the songs I've heard from them. What I mean is typically, a chorus has a more diverse range that sort of highlights the vocals as the driving force behind that section, but for Haken it seems to be the complete opposite in the sense that the way they choose to highlight the vocals is by holding a very small range of octaves. Nothing's wrong with it and they certainly choose to write it that way, but it just doesn't do it for me.

You absolutely have to listen to the messiah complex suite from their most recent album "virus." It's split into 5 parts but is no more than 12 minutes. All kinds of meter changing and production tricks throughout the song(s)

Please please chek out their guitarrists solo project: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bsxlg7GbztSYdIU.html

Oh and your next Haken song should be Lapse....Amazing song and not very long kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8qRldeFnNO5d30.html

You should give a listen to the band Rishloo. Absolutely phenomenal talent.

Yes, this

Yes, such a great song!

I'll +1 on this.

This or we get an extra long episode where he does visions !

absolutely

Totally agree. That was what my suggestion was, too! Great choice!

Or this one if you have the time!

Cockroach king! All of them, really

Should throw on TesseracT on that list too.

Has he done Between the Buried and Me, yet?

Fun Fact: I first learned about Alan Watts from a piece of a lecture The Contortionist included in one of their songs. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/iayYgJqY1anIiHU.html Transcript: In other words, that the so called involuntary circulation of your blood is one continuous process with the stars shining. If you find out that it’s you who circulates your blood you will at the same moment find out that you are shining the sun. Because your physical organism is one continuous process with everything else that is going on. Just as the waves are continuous with the ocean. Your body is continuous with the total energy system of the cosmos and its all you. Only you’re playing the game that you’re only this bit of it.

He'd definitely really like the engineering of The Contortionist.

All good recommendations! Vector by Haken is one of my favorite albums by them. Nil By Mouth is such a fun song to listen to!

Should of started with that song

This

Like Taken. Or Taken 2

"tomayto" "tomahto"

Pareidolia is epic and I especially like the live version from their DVD release.

Most overrated Haken song..

Album version!

@@skeletankmcgraw7343 it got me into Haken so I wouldn't say it's overrated really. But then again, I'm more into post-Affinity Haken.

@@skeletankmcgraw7343 not overrated, but its gripping, so it's a popular launching point in to loving or gating

@@skeletankmcgraw7343 Completely agree. Just because it's their most popular song doesn't mean it's their best. It's just catchy to people that usually aren't in to the genre. Latest album really shows off their talent and obviously I'd choose 'Visiions' as their magnum opus closely followed by 'Messiah Complex'.

Atlas Stone pleeeeeease

If he does, album version please!

@@synthtonic4954 It's such a shame the killer music video cuts out the jazzy part for a shorter runtime.

@@Mrdardas99 Yea, im pretty sure that if youre fine with a progmetal muppet show queen video, you will be fine with a little bit of jazz xD

Do you know leprous and caligula's horse?

I still can't get over Haken's vocal. I only listen to their Instrumental versions and I'm mind-blown everytime but as soon as he start singing it ruins everything..

Just revisited an album I dig from last year that I think you, or anyone else who likes prog, would absolutely enjoy... "Eupnea" by Pure Reason Revolution

Really hoping Caligulas Horse gets their time here. Dream The Dead or Salt would be mindblowing, of course people want Graves, but I'm all about saving the epics for once you're familiar with a group, not an introduction.

So much talent now days. No fucking way to get to it all. Which is a shame but also great problem to have. Have about 523 bands in my music folder and growing. Music is love.

YES, Leprous.

Leprous seems so similar yet so different to me from Haken. I think he will like Leprous a lot as well!

I really want Leprous but a song from an older album when they played craizier stuff, would love to see Painfull Detour being decomposed

@@bartoszbartosiewicz1123 Painful Detour is awesome as well, one of my favourite track. I mean anything from Leprous on this channel would make me happy :D I just find that their latest stuff has more personality and make them stand out more as a band, since they don't care about what people would think and don't really comply to any expectation. I also like that they are never satisfied of themselves and try something different.

Definitely need to add Castaway Angles and Alleviate to this list!

All of them

they are playing download this year

Gotta listen to their other music before listening to Messiah Complex. The easter eggs are so fucking good in that song.

Unless he's heard the 70's masters Gentle Giant 😉

@@progperljungman8218 Okay, I'll give you that one. Cockroach King and Gentle Giant (especially the "Octopus" album) are unlike anything else out there

That would be awesome! BUT if he does, he should do the album version. Their shorter video version is funny because of the visuals, but its the same thing when people react to Meshuggah's video for Bleed. So much good stuff missing and simply not the full song.

+1 for Cockroach King!

Yes to the album version. The video edit loses a lot of greatness!!!

Hugely underrated!

Bound by Gravity is one of the most beautiful songs in the entirety of the genre. It's just such a perfect album closer to an epic album.

@@ryer9646 100000% agreed. mate 🙂

Makes me cry almost every time listening to it

Ah yes, did one already :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sMmHiK-bz5iXXac.html

I will second Aquarius. 👍

"1985" is so goddamn awesome! :D

I agree on Visions, my favorite.

Yay for Portals! One of their best and rarely mentioned.

Oh yea! Masterpiece

I discovered them at a concert in Marseille where the "star" of the show was Devin Townsend. Well oh boy now I prefer them to Devin !

My first Haken song I've heard was Nil by Mouth and I almost broke my neck headbanging. Love all their instrumental versions but hate the vocalist :/

Btw if you enjoyed the production and tone of the instruments in Earthrise, what they do in Veil is absolutely next level

Can't pick between The mountain and Affinity both are incredible. One with 70's vibes the other with 80s vibes.

@@carlmanu The Mountain is head-and-shoulders better than Affinity.

i dont know for some reason i like visions more

@@TheBilaras97 Because _Visions_ is more accessible. _The Mountain_ requires more listening, and more musical experience in general to fully appreciate. But it is their most ambitious, cohesive, consistent, and well-executed effort to date.

@@alondite215 That's your opinion, man. Objectively both have great songs and okay songs. I prefer the story of Affinity and prefer the 80's vibe, so for me, that is easily head and shoulders above Mountain.