HAKEN - Invasion (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

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As a microbiologist and a metalhead... holy shit I love this.

hellbound_psyker

Richard is my grandads neighbour I always hear him producing tracks in his studio in his shed

lukerichardson

One
One less
One less life
One less life for us to live
Holding
Holding on
Holding on to something real
If these
If these walls
If these walls could talk to me
What if all these eyes only saw what they believed?

Two heavy
Heavy hearts
Heavy hearts refuse to beat
When my
When my words
When my words fall on deaf ears
If your
If your soul
If your soul could cry for me
What if all we give is all we ever get to keep?

When we left behind the friends we made along the way
Why is it we never learn from all the mistakes we ever made?

One
One last
One last chance
One last chance to disappear
Calling
Calling out
Calling out for someone real
If this
If this God
If this God could pray to me
What if where we're lost is where we are meant to be?

Too
Too much
Much too young
Much too young and gone too soon
Letting
Letting go
Latching on to something new
If this
If this breath
If this breath's the last I breathe
What if all of my sins are still addicted to me?

When?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?
How is there one unconditional love when you've taken my will to breathe?
Losing our sense of direction has led us to where we all need to be

One
One less
One less life
One less life for us to live
One last
One last chance
One last chance to disappear
One less
One less life
One less life for us to live
One last
One last chance
One last chance to end this

When?
When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

When?
When did we give up believing in beautiful minds that begin to fail?
How is there always a different path waiting for every road we stray?
When did we give up the ghost as a trade for a heart that begins to break?
Why is it we're never learning from all the mistakes we ever made?

pavletakolova

The drumming really deserves extra praise in this tune. Dude killed it. Really interesting and melodic parts on his part.

TarksGauntlet

Some giant viruses throwing it down with cockroaches in a miniature-scale mountain. This video is very Haken indeed.

_imago

I'm a 45 year old guy who's been listening to progressive metal since I wasn't old enough to buy beer and I'm pretty goddamned sure that this is the best song in it's class that I've ever heard. I have TRIED to play this song too loud and discovered that it can't be done. Amazing job, Haken.

saajingrey

I'm seeing people say this one took a few listens, but honestly this is the single that really immediately hooked me. That chorus is something else - probably my favorite from Haken in... I don't even know. It's haunting yet oddly soothing somehow. And wow, the instrumentation on this track is incredibly developed and tasteful. Already listened 5 times and it's got me incredibly hyped for the album!

Ryguypie

I remember listening to this in 2020. Then I remember going deaf in 2021 and now in 2024 it's just been getting consistently worse. But I had to come back and pretend I could still understand this. I wish I could go back and hear this perfectly. Epic song and from what I can still hear it still holds some fire.

Transmissional

I am terrified and excited about the thematic implications of this next album. So far, things feel like they're paralleling Vector quite nicely.
Assuming you're not up to date with the story of Vector, the short of it is that it's describing the rebirth of the Cockroach King. The whole album follows an unnamed character who's being tortured by the very people whom he put his own life in the hands of in hopes that they could help rid him of his sinister alter ego. They electrocute him, deprive him of food, and subject him to some of the most diabolical mental and biological experimentation in human history until he reaches a breaking point and loses his will to live (The Good Doctor, Nil by Mouth). It is here that he turns to the very alter ego he sought destroyed for his salvation (Host). By the end of A Cell Divides, this alter ego has surfaced, claiming his host's body as his own. He kept his promise; he took away the pain inside. But it came at the ultimate price. The ego had won; the Cockroach King had returned.
Obviously it's too soon to develop a concrete thesis on Virus's story, but given what we have so far in addition to the visuals from the music videos, I do have a couple of thoughts. The one that seems most feasible to me thus far is that the Cockroach King has risen against the Good Doctor and given him a taste of his own medicine (Prosthetic), and has now launched a campaign to reclaim the throne that was taken from him on that mountain years ago, spreading the influence of his rule far and wide.
Like a Virus.
I love this band and everything they do. They're approach to narrative story-telling, not just across songs or even albums, but their entire discography, has always fascinated me. I always loved Cockroach King as a song, but thematically, it always felt out of place compared to the other tracks on The Mountain. It feels like now, thanks to Vector and Virus, we're receiving the story of the Cockroach King for what he has always been; a malevolent force of nature, unafraid to destroy everything standing in his path in his conquest to obtain what he feels is rightfully his.
I look forward to my thoughts being proven or dis-proven when Virus finally launches!

peterconigliaro

This song and album is what made me realize Haken were serious musicians. Such a polished effort.

corywashburn

The lyrics struture is such a phenomenal representation of trial and error on most scientific studies, for example the first phrase is one exam failed, 2nd phrase is the second exam failed, 3rd phrase failed, until the 4th comes the first stage of accomplish the first trial of exams for a virus or vaccine, then comes the other verse... Amazing method in an amazing song.

MisterTokolo

Best prog song of 2020... Simply a masterpiece, complex time signatures, overwhelming polyrythms, this song is like virus growing inside causing to listen over and over again...

onculcan

Cool! Gonna use this video for my bacteriophage presentation.

ElUniQorNi

NEW! Haken Tower Defense!
-Defend THE MOUNTAIN from the biophage horde!
-INITIATE proprietary "Fluid Defense" mechanics and you'll feel an AFFINITY with your troops!
-Different difficulty levels, including the standard CANARY YELLOW and the mega challenging RED GIANT!
-Try to see how long you can last in THE ENDLESS KNOT mode!
-Take on THE COCKROACH KING and do your part to help the EARTH RISE again!

Holktube

a short story. We're always looking for new songs and bands with my 7 daughter on our way to school. She said: stop; listen to this one. it's interesting. So we did. And then I discovered Haken. Song by song. I appreciated all the references: Fear Factory, Porcupine Tree, Gentle Giant, Liquid Tension Experiment etc. great band. my 7 y-old discovered you for me :)

januszo.