Haken announce new album ‘Fauna’
HAKEN have announced a new album!
Titled Fauna, the upcoming album from the English progressive metal band is the follow-up to 2020’s Virus, and is scheduled to be released in March next year, via InsideOut Music.
Speaking about the upcoming album, vocalist Ross Jennings sys, “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 2013’s The Mountain,” adds guitarist 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.”
Alongside the announcement of the new album, HAKEN have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; The Alphabet Of Me. The new song is the second song to be released from the upcoming album, following on from Nightingale, which was released back in May.
Speaking about the new song, Jennings says, “when composing and presenting initial song sketches, we very much had an ‘anything goes’ mentality, and whilst sounding atypically Haken, it was a piece that was all exciting us to explore and integrate into our song canon. Where the lyrics are concerned, I leant heavily on one of my favourite writers Philip K Dick, for inspiration. Keeping our loose concept of spirit animals in mind, I re-read Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Which would later be adapted into the 1982 film Blade Runner) knowing symbolically that animals played a key role in the story. This, along with revisiting both movies from the Blade Runner franchise, opened up some deeper philosophical topics about the nature of identity which have served as a backbone for the lyrical content.”
Watch the official music video for The Alphabet Of Me here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Taurus
2. Nightingale
3. The Alphabet of Me
4. Sempiternal Beings
5. Beneath The White Rainbow
6. Island In The Clouds
7. Lovebite
8. Elephants Never Forget
9. Eyes Of Ebony
Fauna is set for release on March 3rd via InsideOut Music. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
The band will be touring alongside BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME across mainland Europe and the UK in February – April next year, check out the tour dates here!
For more information on HAKEN like their official page on Facebook.
