UK progressive, alternative metal band HAKEN return with their first new music in 3 years, in the shape of ‘in a fever dream’. This new track sees the band working with a producer for the very first time, bringing George Lever (Loathe, Sleep Token ) on board to help shape the next stage of the band, crafting some of the most emotionally direct material of the bands career so far. For this track, the band enlisted renowned bassist Bryan Beller (The Aristocrats, Dethklok, Joe Satriani) to contribute.
Progressive pioneers HAKEN spent 2024 celebrating their most recent acclaimed studio album, ‘Fauna’, in the most comprehensive way possible, as part of their ‘An Evening With’ run throughout the world. Playing two full sets each night, the band performed ‘Fauna’ in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from their catalogue. In a homecoming of sorts for Haken, on the 21st September 2024 the band played London’s legendary O2 Forum, and the document of that special evening is what’s witnessed on ‘Liveforms: An Evening With Haken’ – is out now!
Progressive pioneers HAKEN spent 2024 celebrating their most recent acclaimed studio album, ‘Fauna’, in the most comprehensive way possible, as part of their ‘An Evening With’ run throughout the world. Playing two full sets each night, the band performed ‘Fauna’ in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from their catalogue. In a homecoming of sorts for Haken, on the 21st September 2024 the band played London’s legendary O2 Forum, and the document of that special evening is what’s witnessed on ‘Liveforms: An Evening With Haken’ – released on May 9th, 2025.
Progressive pioneers Haken spent 2024 celebrating their most recent acclaimed studio album, ‘Fauna’, in the most comprehensive way possible, as part of their ‘An Evening With’ run throughout the world. Playing two full sets each night, the band performed ‘Fauna’ in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from their catalogue. In a homecoming of sorts for Haken, on September 21st, 2024 the band played London’s legendary O2 Forum, and the document of that special evening is what’s witnessed on ‘Liveforms: An Evening With Haken’ – released May 9th, 2025.
Progressive rockers HAKEN are pleased to announce they will bring their special ‘An Evening With’ tour to the UK & Europe in September 2024. Kicking off on the 4th September in Finland, the band will be performing the entirety of their acclaimed newest album ‘Fauna’, as well as other tracks from across the band’s career.
The band comment: “We’ve been wanting to give the European fans a full-length show for a while now, so we are really excited to be bringing ‘An Evening with Haken’ to the continent in September. We had such a blast with this format in North America earlier this year, and we can’t wait to do it all over again. Haken music all night, including Fauna in full and hours of other music from our discography!”
General on-sale starts Wednesday 24th April. The full list of shows is below:
4th September – Savoy Theatre, Helsinki, Finland 6th September – Kulturkirken Jakob, Oslo, Norway 7th September – Stora Teatern, Gothenburg, Sweden 8th September – Södra Teatern, Stockholm, Sweden 9th September – Bremen Theatre, Copenhagen, Denmark 11th September – Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany 12th September – Huxleys, Berlin, Germany 13th September – Backstage Werk, Munich, Germany 15th September – Christuskirche, Bochum, Germany 16th September – Rockhal, Luxembourg, Luxembourg 17th September – Muziekgebouw, Eindhoven, Netherlands 18th September – Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrecht, Netherlands 20th September – Ritz, Manchester, UK 21st September – Kentish Town Forum, London, UK 23rd September – Alhambra, Paris, France 24th September – Dynamo, Zurich, Switzerland 25th September – Teatro Celebrazioni, Bologna, Italy 26th September – La Rayonne, Lyon, France
Watch the band’s video for ‘Lovebite’ (filmed on their European headline tour in 2023), here:
Progressive rockers HAKEN are in the midst of a North American tour in support of their much acclaimed recent album ‘Fauna’. In March & April, the band performed live in Europe alongside Between The Buried & Me, and today they are excited to launch a video for the track ‘Lovebite’, filmed live at their show in Paris at Alhambra on the 17th March.
Watch the video now here:
The band commented of the current North American run: “We’ve been having an incredible time out on our North American Fauna Expedition, playing a brand new setlist, visiting cities old and new for us, and meeting fans every night at the VIP experience. It’s been a busy year of touring so far but it doesn’t end here – with festivals in Europe over the summer and our Latin American Fauna Expedition later in the year there are still many opportunities to see us live!”
They have the following dates still to play, before returning to Europe for Summer festivals including Download, Loudfest, Graspop, Tuska, Arctangent, as well as some select headline shows. Find the full list of dates here: https://hakenmusic.com/tour/
26th May – Hawthorne Theatre, Portland, OR 27th May – Neptune Theatre, Seattle, WA 28th May – Rickshaw Theatre, Vancouver, BC 30th May – The Commonwealth Room, Salt Lake City, UT 31st May – Gothic Theatre, Englewood, CO 1st June – Granada Theater, Lawrence, KS 2nd June – Fine Line, Minneapolis, MN 3rd June – Concord Music Hall, Chicago, IL
The tracklisting is as follows: Taurus 04:49 Nightingale 07:24 The Alphabet of Me 05:33 Sempiternal Beings 08:23 Beneath The White Rainbow 06:45 Island In The Clouds 05:45 Lovebite 03:49 Elephants Never Forget 11:07 Eyes Of Ebony 08:32
‘Fauna’ will be available on several formats, including Ltd 2CD (incl. instrumentals), Standard CD, Gatefold 2LP & as Digital Album. The albums stunningly detailed artwork was created by Dan Goldsworthy (Charlie Griffiths, Sylosis)
‘Fauna’ sees the band exploring new ideas conceptually as Ross continues. “The premise of the album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal assigned to it. They all have something related to the animal kingdom that we could write about, but they also connect to the human world. Each track has layers, and some of them are more obvious than others.”
“It reminds me of The Mountain,” adds guitarist and fellow founder Richard Henshall. “There, we had the idea of not really a narrative-based album, but more the concept of climbing a mountain and overcoming the obstacles along the way. Then we took that and thought about how it could relate to our everyday lives. All of Fauna’s animals relate to us, personally.”
‘Fauna’ also marks the return of keyboard player Peter Jones, whose sounds can be heard permeating the entire album. “What Pete’s brought sonically to the band has played a massive role in why we do have a lot of new sounds on this record,” says Ross. “It’s always a new dynamic when there’s a change in personnel, and this is a fresh and reviving one. It’s certainly helped proximity-wise, with Pete being in the country: Pete and Ray [Hearne, Haken’s drummer] would be at Rich’s place and they’d just start jamming. That’s really key to how the songs start.”
The band have announced tour dates for North America and Europe. Find the full list of tour dates here: https://hakenmusic.com/tour/
HAKEN are: Ross Jennings Richard Henshall Charlie Griffiths Pete Jones Conner Green Ray Hearne
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