HAKEN UNLEASH THE ANIMALS WITHIN

Original keyboardist Peter Jones is back for “very progressive” new album, Fauna.

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British heavy prog sextet Haken will release their seventh LP on March 3 via InsideOut. Fauna is a concept album, with each song being about a different species of animal. Guitarist Richard Henshall has compared the theme to that of their 2013 breakthrough LP, The Mountain, and two of the tracks – The Alphabet Of Me and Nightingale – are currently streaming in the run-up to the new record’s release. Lead singer Ross Jennings tells Prog that “the idea was sparked by a song called Eyes Of Ebony. We wanted to write a song about Richard’s dad, who passed away – he was a very supportive figure in the early days of Haken. Instead of overtly singing about a human, we wanted to give him a spirit animal as a…

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