For 9 years, Dream Theater was my absolute favourite band and I thought they always would be. I never believed I would discover anything greater. Haken is my favourite because they beat my favourite.
It's very difficult for people, as they get older, to change their ways. As such, bands get "stuck" in a rut. You can see this in people's taste in music who are older (like me) who, after their early formative years, don't seem to change much (not like me). There are always exceptions to the rule but get past 30-40 years old and people will still be listening to the same stuff they were 20 years ago. I believe it is the same for making music. I'm constantly on the lookout for more interesting music (with a heavy bent). Rush used to be my fave band. Dream Theater took over. Now it's Opeth. Haken sounds really good and may end up being my favourite band but then, strangely, I like the sound of Sunn O))). Go figure. :-)
Must say I'm inclined to agree on all points. Opeth's been my fav band for years some years now, with Watershed as their best album so far. Must admit that Haken have some potential though. som parts are really cool. Only just "found them" and i'm a little delighted to find a new band that have this potential :)
07:17 - 08:00 - prog metal heaven :) Have been a huge prog fan for 15 years now and haven't listened to Haken yet. I'm ashamed of myself. But this changed today :D
I just found this the other night. My mind has officially been blown. I've listened to this song like 20 times, and it's even more mesmerizing each time. Then I listened to Atlus Stone. These guys are the pure essence of what progressive is. Pure complexity. Easily in my top 5 favorite bands, now.
This album has to be my favorite progressive rock/metal album ever, tied even with DT's Scenes From a Memory in my book. So musically diverse. Beautiful, yet epic. Makes great use of a lot of music theory that gets neglected in modern music, from the use of harmonic minors, to the use of cadences that only resolve rhythmically. The Mountain is a corner-stone in progressive music, and I deem it a staple album to any prog fans out there.
All my kingdom's gone It's burned to the ground Reason leaves me As future sits upon a solitary throne A treasure is sinking Seems now long gone The desert takes away Our fears and dreams but they Always will return [Chorus] Be the moon and sun Be the wind and cross the storm See the stars begin to swarm Read the writings in the stone Be the moon and be the sun Be the wind and cross the storm See the stars begin to swarm Read the writings in the stone Seeking patterns Envisaging pictures of a dying dream Fallen prison The façade of wisdom in old scars [Chorus] Be the moon and sun Be the wind and cross the storm See the stars begin to swarm Read the writings in the stone Be the moon and be the sun Be the wind and cross the storm See the stars begin to swarm Read the writings in the stone [Solo] Breathe in the air "Breathe deeper" Don't lose the stars "Keep sinking" The old spirit ware's "Perceiving" Speaking within "Conceiving" Show me the way "Old spirits" Uncertainty "Deceiving" Feelings arise "Believing" Take what is mine "Retrieving" Breathe in the air "Breathe deeper" Don't lose the stars "Keep sinking" The old spirit ware's "Perceiving" Speaking within "Conceiving" Show me the way "Old spirits" Uncertainty "Deceiving" Feelings arise "Believing" Take what is mine "Retrieving" As I've been forsaken My veins feel unshaken In the skies a secret lies Well disguised before my eyes "The Universe is all around us kept in motion Alleviate our pain and fear test our devotion" Breathe in the pain "Keep breathing" You won't break these chains "Keep digging" For what you've foreseen "Believing" Was only a dream "Deceiving" Give me what's yours "Retrieving" You've dug your own tomb "Keep digging" Your kingdom is gone "Keep grieving" It's burned to the ground "defeated" All my fears have drowned All my fears have drowned Seems now long gone The ocean took away My fears and dreams but they Never returned [Chorus] Be the moon and sun Be the wind and cross the storm See the stars begin to swarm Read the writings in the stone Be the moon and be the sun Be the wind and cross the storm See the stars begin to swarm Read the writings in the stone The universe is all around us Read the writings in the stone
Haken, their music is like a mandelbrot fractal. You can keep zooming in on smaller detail levels but you never stop hearing detail. You don't just listen to this song a view times. This music keeps you busy for months. Just like Dream Theater used to do.
Man, this song is incredible. Reading the lyrics I suppose the song talks about seeing though things or see things in a different way... the metaphor of Pareidolia (seeing faces in objects when they arent really there) fits perfect! Diego writes and sings niceley! This band its outstanding, every album have different things to enjoy and love... I hope Restoration and Affinity are good too, I suppose it! Love you, Haken!
My main playlists before Haken consisted of Yes, Flower Kings, ELP, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Arena, Kamelot, Mastodon, Pain of Salvation, Opeth, Rush, The Mars Volta, Spock's Beard, Ayreon et al... no particular order there! I hear influences here and there, but overall this band is a total original. While eclectic, it avoids being derivative. To me this is the extension of musical ideas I first heard in the 70's. While on the guitar side I can hear the DT influence, overall the composition has more in common with the Yes Years of Close to the Edge and Relayer, in addition to the Crimson years with Wetton and Bruford. Melodically complex with the quirkiness originally introduced by King Crimson and later demonstrated by Spock's Beard and The Mars Volta. These gents are influenced by the best of Prog and Prog-Metal while presenting an extremely original sound. Overall, very exciting to hear some fresh prog ideas!
I think that is the mark of a true progressive band overall, their ability to create something completely original, something new and unique. All those bands have achieved this in their own way and have progressed music style, not forwards but in any direction they feel free.
@@n3rdg4m3r wait, when did they open for DT? I didn't think they had done that yet? I'm a huge DT fan, but I think Haken would steal the show as the opener!
I stopped listening to music for a long time. The last band I remembered touching me was Dream Theater... Nothing after that. I didn't know it at the time, but I just couldn't find anything I could identify with. I didn't have those words yet. I was almost completely music free for at least 10 years. I would "hear" music, but would rarely play it for myself, but honestly I couldn't really listen... Funnily enough, some musicals were powerful enough to "get to me" but that was it. Then Haken came into my life. I listen to them daily, and have done so for months. I get it now. I remember what music meant to me. How I did use it. What it gave me. Music is prayer. The music you love, the text that follows you The rhymes or lines that really GET YOU GOOD The wisdom you have gained from it, the hardships it helped you overcome All those are held in the memory of their songs... To be met again, like an old friend from the past... I think... yes, trying to describe how I feel about music, I practically spelled out "Crytallised"...
This remains my favourite tune from this stellar album. The songwriting is mature but still exploratory, I adore what these guys do. The future of progressive metal is bright indeed!
There's a big problem in the Post-1992 Prog Scene: Thinking that everything in the newest prog is derivated from DT music... as if Gentle Giant, Premiata Forneria Marconi, KC, Focus, VDGG and Mahavishnu Orchestra never existed.
The "Problem" is that Dream Theater was the First Prog Band MOST people born after 1983 EVER heard Images & Words was their First Prog Metal Album They never heard of Fates Warning, Queensryche, Sieges Even, Rush, So Dream Theater is their Non Plus Ultra Prog Metal Band
musicisthebestF Just because people have not heard anything else but DT does not make them the main influence for someone else. Imho Haken is more prog then metal (this song is somewhat of the most metal they go on The Mountain. DT is more metal and technical show off then prog and emotion. Even King Crimson and Gentle Giant have had their hard rock moments.
Nisse Hult I think the point was, simply, that Dream Theatre is viewed as the only point of reference for prog-metal fans born post-1983. For me, the first nearly progressive band I heard was Tool. I compared virtually everything I heard to them for years. Fortunately for me, I expanded my horizons and listened to something other than Tool. I started to listen to the bands members of Tool cited as influences, listen to similar bands as they, etc. That sort of intelligent musical appreciation is something I recommend to the dudes saying Haken is a foreigners' impression of DT.
I don't know why but I do enjoy DT and Haken so much!!!!!! Their music really make me feeling so good!!!! So stop comparing them, just enjoy their music!!!!
6:54 Breathe in the pain (Keep breathing) You won't break these chains (Keep digging) For what you've foreseen (Believing) Was only a dream (Deceiving) Give me what's yours (Retrieving) You've dug your own tomb (Keep digging) Your kingdom is gone (Keep grieving) It's burned to the ground (defeated)
you can actually see in the vidéo Tool's Lateralus at 9:12 (recognizable by the unique artwork of the album's box with the kind of glasses on it) Not sure if it was on purpouse but found it was a pretty cool easter egg!!
Absolutely Amazing. I listened The Mountain several times and I've to say it is a MASTERPIECE!! Never heard about Haken but now they have all my atention for sure! Nice Melodies, heavy and tight rithms, great great great sound. Is a great idea to play 8 strings guitars but noy always ... Looooove IT!
Cheers from Toronto fan .... since that , i've seen them on three other occasions , absolutely perfect . Opera House show was particularily fantastic .
tomorrow the vinyl of it comes to me (hope so) ! haken,i know of u since the first demosongs of myspace,your music is amazing and u top it every new album
The Ocean - Pelagial is amazing. TesseracT's new album is really good as well. Have you heard of Guilt Machine? They only have one album (an Ayreon side project) but it's really good. You can find the whole album on UA-cam.
soy guitarrista desde que tengo 5 años y saque miles de canciones de heavy metal, power metal, death metal, progressive metal, doom metal.. y puedo decir que constant motion tiene un riff inicial muy exotico y distinto a muchas canciones.. cortes de tiempo y arreglos vocales increibles, yo he visto en vivo esa cancion, y tambien la he tocado con mis amigos en un bar... y son de las canciones que mas agrada no solo al publico sino a los musicos tambien.. la bateria tambien increible composicion.
Как апологет жанра, я не мог проигнорировать этот релиз. Третий альбом британцев Haken, думаю не уступает лучшим работам Pain Of Salvation и Dream Theater. При прослушивании альбома рождаются самые разные ассоциации, от Gentle Giant до Rush. А чего стоит удивительное соло на бузуки( 3:44 - 4:18 ) в этой композиции...
Charlu Go Well I imagine the budget for putting together some epic 11 minute music video to accompany THIS would be more than just a pretty penny, so..
Been listening to this album for weeks straight. It's been a long time since an album stuck with me for so long. Prog album of the year IMO with the Flower Kings "Desolation Rose" the runner up!!
Para quienes dicen que esto es DT: mi opinion, esta influenciado claramente por dream, pero tambien tiene mucho de otros estilos. El estilo que tocan (siendo prog metal) no se parece a dream. Este es un estilo más versátil, más innovador, más "movido" por asi decirlo, a veces mas complejo en termino de arreglo de compases (sobretodo este ultimo album). No estoy diciendo que es mejor banda que dream... solo digo que no son comparables ;D amo a estas dos bandas
First band in my prog/experimental collection that has 7 albums (don't tell me that "Restoration" is EP))... and EACH OF THEM are masterpiece! I kneel before you, Haken!!!
The Mountain - best prog release of 2013, perhaps sharing that title with The Raven That Refused to Sing. We've been spoiled this year, progheads. If you don't already own this, do yourself a favor and spin it from beginning to end - it's brilliant (and this track I might even consider one of the weaker ones, minus the instrumental section).
***** The Theory of Everything is brilliant. I had never heard of Ayreon until a few months ago. I can't believe what I was missing! The Human Equation is incredible too.
Guys been listening to all the prog greats for to many years to mention and been a musician for all of those years so i know a track when i hear one , and that is one special piece of music .. stunning work !
sii señor muy grandes !! y vienen a españa !!!!! 10.4.14 - Shoco, Madrid, ESP,11.4.14 - Apolo 2, Barcelona, ESP, gran banda de progresivo bastante innovadora, me han sorprendido y mucho. No faltare al concierto !!!
Omni Codex Thank you sir, to bring another amazing and very unique prog band in my life. I suggest you to listen to 'Bad Salad' as they are very unknown and very good prog as well ;)
Did you see the definition of Pareidolia? I think the band just sat down and went: "Shit, everyone's gonna compare us to anything remotely prog for this one..." - "Well, we don't have a title for this yet, let's fuck with them."
3:44 - 4:42 I can't help but laugh at the imagine of a bearded dude with only pink pants on dejnting this part whilst only staring at you angrily, not moving besides playing the notes, never breaking eyecontact
You people are comparing this with DT? This is something that DT will not even think of Writing. Just a few time signatures, key changes and strangeness doesn't make it comparable with Theater. Dream Theater is about soul, those who listen to them, know it. Hail, DT.
Shubham Mishra Sorry dude...But Dream Theatre used to be about the most technically amazing band ever and all viruosos yes...I'm the biggest fan of DT since the 90s Greatest Images and Words...that said...Haken is Great Prog band with as much soul as DT or more
The instrument you can hear at around 4 minutes is called buzuki and is traditional Greek / Turkish instrument. Its sound is fire!
It's greek
@@paulchelderian9897 I'm Greek, I'd know. It was used both by the Greeks and by the Turkish back when Greece was part of the ottoman empire.
This part is so amazing. I'm listening to prog metal for more than 30 years now, and this part is one of the best 'prog moments' I've ever heard.
@@markusbiewer2756 what would you call your favorites?
@@lihzzahrdspeed6631 Dream Theater has so many great holy cow moments. It's my favorite band, but Haken is catching up quickly.
Before this, the only Haken song I knew was Cockroach King.
My god, what have I been missing.
They've been around for less than 10 years with 4 albums and all of them are masterpieces.
+JohnC546 My personal favorite is Affinity tbh.
Van Kleiss in memoriam dude
in memoriam is a totaly epic one of my favorit songs of all time
listen to falling back to earth and the architect
For 9 years, Dream Theater was my absolute favourite band and I thought they always would be. I never believed I would discover anything greater. Haken is my favourite because they beat my favourite.
Same man.
Same here. Dream Theater nowadays sound like they're forcing themselves too much. Haken sound much more honest.
Well this depends of the taste of the person... i like DT a little more...
It's very difficult for people, as they get older, to change their ways. As such, bands get "stuck" in a rut. You can see this in people's taste in music who are older (like me) who, after their early formative years, don't seem to change much (not like me). There are always exceptions to the rule but get past 30-40 years old and people will still be listening to the same stuff they were 20 years ago. I believe it is the same for making music. I'm constantly on the lookout for more interesting music (with a heavy bent). Rush used to be my fave band. Dream Theater took over. Now it's Opeth. Haken sounds really good and may end up being my favourite band but then, strangely, I like the sound of Sunn O))). Go figure. :-)
Must say I'm inclined to agree on all points. Opeth's been my fav band for years some years now, with Watershed as their best album so far. Must admit that Haken have some potential though. som parts are really cool. Only just "found them" and i'm a little delighted to find a new band that have this potential :)
That Bouzouki playing from 3.44 to 4.16 is simply inspirational. Haken take prog metal to places it's never been to before.
07:17 - 08:00 - prog metal heaven :)
Have been a huge prog fan for 15 years now and haven't listened to Haken yet. I'm ashamed of myself. But this changed today :D
You mean 0:00 to 10:51, right ?
lol, it was the boring part
polyrythm at its best :)
I just found this the other night. My mind has officially been blown. I've listened to this song like 20 times, and it's even more mesmerizing each time. Then I listened to Atlus Stone. These guys are the pure essence of what progressive is. Pure complexity.
Easily in my top 5 favorite bands, now.
This album has to be my favorite progressive rock/metal album ever, tied even with DT's Scenes From a Memory in my book. So musically diverse. Beautiful, yet epic. Makes great use of a lot of music theory that gets neglected in modern music, from the use of harmonic minors, to the use of cadences that only resolve rhythmically. The Mountain is a corner-stone in progressive music, and I deem it a staple album to any prog fans out there.
try ARK , album BURN THE SUN
Even with? Way beats it.
All my kingdom's gone
It's burned to the ground
Reason leaves me
As future sits upon a solitary throne
A treasure is sinking
Seems now long gone
The desert takes away
Our fears and dreams but they
Always will return
[Chorus]
Be the moon and sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Be the moon and be the sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Seeking patterns
Envisaging pictures of a dying dream
Fallen prison
The façade of wisdom in old scars
[Chorus] Be the moon and sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Be the moon and be the sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
[Solo]
Breathe in the air
"Breathe deeper"
Don't lose the stars
"Keep sinking"
The old spirit ware's
"Perceiving"
Speaking within
"Conceiving"
Show me the way
"Old spirits"
Uncertainty
"Deceiving"
Feelings arise
"Believing"
Take what is mine
"Retrieving"
Breathe in the air
"Breathe deeper"
Don't lose the stars
"Keep sinking"
The old spirit ware's
"Perceiving"
Speaking within
"Conceiving"
Show me the way
"Old spirits"
Uncertainty
"Deceiving"
Feelings arise
"Believing"
Take what is mine
"Retrieving"
As I've been forsaken
My veins feel unshaken
In the skies a secret lies
Well disguised before my eyes
"The Universe is all around us kept in motion
Alleviate our pain and fear test our devotion"
Breathe in the pain
"Keep breathing"
You won't break these chains
"Keep digging"
For what you've foreseen
"Believing"
Was only a dream
"Deceiving"
Give me what's yours
"Retrieving"
You've dug your own tomb
"Keep digging"
Your kingdom is gone
"Keep grieving"
It's burned to the ground
"defeated"
All my fears have drowned
All my fears have drowned
Seems now long gone
The ocean took away
My fears and dreams but they
Never returned
[Chorus]
Be the moon and sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
Be the moon and be the sun
Be the wind and cross the storm
See the stars begin to swarm
Read the writings in the stone
The universe is all around us
Read the writings in the stone
Haken is love Haken is life
SW is life, too. Especially the masterpiece on your user icon.
King redeem... With Raven icon... Posting on a Haken video... You win.
Steven wilso is also life ;)
@@brooksjackson70 Only when he played for Steven Wilson... otherwise not a fan :/ But, yeah, his solos in Raven are mind-blowingly good.
Haken, their music is like a mandelbrot fractal. You can keep zooming in on smaller detail levels but you never stop hearing detail. You don't just listen to this song a view times. This music keeps you busy for months. Just like Dream Theater used to do.
this is a perfect description of it. I've been listening through their discography pretty exclusively since july. it continues to blow my mind.
I JUST saw that you left this comment 10 years ago
lmao hello from a new haken fan ✌🏻
You listen to this song and you think: "Those lyrics were magical."
...and then you realize the music made you feel that way. :')
They are just masters.
For me it's always music first, then lyrics amplify the feeling
Man, this song is incredible. Reading the lyrics I suppose the song talks about seeing though things or see things in a different way... the metaphor of Pareidolia (seeing faces in objects when they arent really there) fits perfect! Diego writes and sings niceley! This band its outstanding, every album have different things to enjoy and love... I hope Restoration and Affinity are good too, I suppose it! Love you, Haken!
My main playlists before Haken consisted of Yes, Flower Kings, ELP, King Crimson, Dream Theater, Symphony X, Arena, Kamelot, Mastodon, Pain of Salvation, Opeth, Rush, The Mars Volta, Spock's Beard, Ayreon et al... no particular order there!
I hear influences here and there, but overall this band is a total original. While eclectic, it avoids being derivative.
To me this is the extension of musical ideas I first heard in the 70's. While on the guitar side I can hear the DT influence, overall the composition has more in common with the Yes Years of Close to the Edge and Relayer, in addition to the Crimson years with Wetton and Bruford.
Melodically complex with the quirkiness originally introduced by King Crimson and later demonstrated by Spock's Beard and The Mars Volta. These gents are influenced by the best of Prog and Prog-Metal while presenting an extremely original sound.
Overall, very exciting to hear some fresh prog ideas!
I have another one for you, Unitopia, two of their best albums are Artificial and The Garden. I'm sure you're going to love it.
Between the Buried and Me has done this too.
I think that is the mark of a true progressive band overall, their ability to create something completely original, something new and unique. All those bands have achieved this in their own way and have progressed music style, not forwards but in any direction they feel free.
+TDM Yeah, and Haken sounds really similar to Myrath
+TDM True : a murky side of quirky King Crimson
This is the first Haken song I ever heard in 2014 and it still gives me goosebumps
Holy shit THIS IS MUSIC right here guys.
Am I allowed to like this and DT? Seems like I can't judging from a lot of the comments...
Jeremy Tsuei I think you definitely should. Dream Theater and Haken are two of my favorite bands!
I just saw them open for DT and they were awesome!
absolutely yes!
@@n3rdg4m3r wait, when did they open for DT? I didn't think they had done that yet? I'm a huge DT fan, but I think Haken would steal the show as the opener!
@@thosava March 5th 2020 at The Underground in Charlotte NC. They played Cockroach King and I cant stop listening to it now.
I stopped listening to music for a long time.
The last band I remembered touching me was Dream Theater... Nothing after that.
I didn't know it at the time, but I just couldn't find anything I could identify with. I didn't have those words yet.
I was almost completely music free for at least 10 years.
I would "hear" music, but would rarely play it for myself, but honestly I couldn't really listen...
Funnily enough, some musicals were powerful enough to "get to me" but that was it.
Then Haken came into my life.
I listen to them daily, and have done so for months.
I get it now.
I remember what music meant to me.
How I did use it.
What it gave me.
Music is prayer.
The music you love, the text that follows you
The rhymes or lines that really GET YOU GOOD
The wisdom you have gained from it, the hardships it helped you overcome
All those are held in the memory of their songs...
To be met again, like an old friend from the past...
I think... yes, trying to describe how I feel about music, I practically spelled out "Crytallised"...
Leprous brought me to this awesomeness!!!
Same... \m/
this band brought me to leprous and it's awesome!
The same thing happened to me! :D *prog snob highfive!*
hahaha high five!
Voyager brought me here and to leprous
11 minutes of pure gold!!
The best progressive metal from the past few years
I can't say how much I like 3:44 - 4:19
what instrument is that?
I'm guessing some kind of Celtic instrument maybe' but I'd actually like to know too
haha
vballmusicGod It's a bouzouki :)
Ah' mystery solved! haha.. thx'
One very, very talented band. There's oceans of unoriginal and bad metal around. This is one that just rises above most of it.
Dude the latest one 'The Mountain' one of the best albums ive ever heard in my life
This remains my favourite tune from this stellar album. The songwriting is mature but still exploratory, I adore what these guys do. The future of progressive metal is bright indeed!
Who gives a fuck if you think DT or Haken is better, this is not a damn fight... enjoy music folks..
There's a big problem in the Post-1992 Prog Scene:
Thinking that everything in the newest prog is derivated from DT music... as if Gentle Giant, Premiata Forneria Marconi, KC, Focus, VDGG and Mahavishnu Orchestra never existed.
The "Problem" is that Dream Theater was the First Prog Band MOST people born after 1983 EVER heard
Images & Words was their First Prog Metal Album
They never heard of Fates Warning, Queensryche, Sieges Even, Rush,
So Dream Theater is their Non Plus Ultra Prog Metal Band
musicisthebestF
Just because people have not heard anything else but DT does not make them the main influence for someone else.
Imho Haken is more prog then metal (this song is somewhat of the most metal they go on The Mountain. DT is more metal and technical show off then prog and emotion.
Even King Crimson and Gentle Giant have had their hard rock moments.
Nisse Hult I think the point was, simply, that Dream Theatre is viewed as the only point of reference for prog-metal fans born post-1983. For me, the first nearly progressive band I heard was Tool. I compared virtually everything I heard to them for years. Fortunately for me, I expanded my horizons and listened to something other than Tool. I started to listen to the bands members of Tool cited as influences, listen to similar bands as they, etc. That sort of intelligent musical appreciation is something I recommend to the dudes saying Haken is a foreigners' impression of DT.
Freaking factssss mate
I don't know why but I do enjoy DT and Haken so much!!!!!!
Their music really make me feeling so good!!!!
So stop comparing them, just enjoy their music!!!!
6:54
Breathe in the pain (Keep breathing)
You won't break these chains (Keep digging)
For what you've foreseen
(Believing)
Was only a dream
(Deceiving)
Give me what's yours
(Retrieving)
You've dug your own tomb
(Keep digging)
Your kingdom is gone
(Keep grieving)
It's burned to the ground
(defeated)
The oriental "shred" (3:40) section reminds me a lot of the one in "Outcry" (around 5min20) by Dream Theater... It almost feels like a tribute.
+DreamPurpleFloyd I heard that two. The quick shreds with the intermittent hitting of the low B is very reminiscent of Outcry.
+DreamPurpleFloyd I also think it's quite similar overall to "Home" good stuff :)
It's like Tool had a car crash with Dream Theater and Porcupine Tree, then Karnivool turned up to clean up the crash scene..
This is the greatest comment ever.
you can actually see in the vidéo Tool's Lateralus at 9:12 (recognizable by the unique artwork of the album's box with the kind of glasses on it) Not sure if it was on purpouse but found it was a pretty cool easter egg!!
ALONSO DIAZ STARI you're so fuckin right, I feel ashamed right now haha
your comment was "More Than Words" Chris.
Yes, like all of those bands had their best bits put together and then added superior song writing skills.
Everybody welcome to UA-cam,the place where you can talk of one band on another's band video's comments section!
Pareidolia be like
Absolutely Amazing. I listened The Mountain several times and I've to say it is a MASTERPIECE!! Never heard about Haken but now they have all my atention for sure! Nice Melodies, heavy and tight rithms, great great great sound. Is a great idea to play 8 strings guitars but noy always ... Looooove IT!
This is amazingly well recorded.
Nice to see some musicians are still taking the time to make complicated, mesmerizing, and meaningful music.
Haken was fricking amazing last night in Toronto ! Favorite prog band right now .
Cheers from Toronto fan .... since that , i've seen them on three other occasions , absolutely perfect . Opera House show was particularily fantastic .
I would have gone but I just heard of them. Pretty cool kinda Gentle Giant like
Greatgreatgreat!! "Mountain" is another fantastic album of "Haken" and I fell in love with it immediately...
Got to love HAKEN, amazing all round... totally original!
I've listened to this album back to back more times than I can remember in these last 7 days. It's very, very well done.
When Dream and Tool Unite
This right here Is the definition of a fantastic ensemble of music
Meu deuss.. nunca vi clipe mais bem feito na vida!!! Incrível!!
tomorrow the vinyl of it comes to me (hope so) ! haken,i know of u since the first demosongs of myspace,your music is amazing and u top it every new album
Haken, btbam and native construct
+PORFAS FPS Thank you for this comment. I did not know about Native Construct. Great debut album
Wow !!! 3 favorite band right now !
Wow :D I've looked everywhere for new band names: lastfm, google music, and I find 2 in just one youtube comment.
You rock!
NP enjoy them.
btbam =????
I recently found their track In Memoriam on a sample CD of a local magazine. Since then I'm in love.
'The mountain' is just great!
The Ocean - Pelagial is amazing. TesseracT's new album is really good as well.
Have you heard of Guilt Machine? They only have one album (an Ayreon side project) but it's really good. You can find the whole album on UA-cam.
I am really hoping that Ross appears on an Ayreon album some day as a singer/lyricist :)
soy guitarrista desde que tengo 5 años y saque miles de canciones de heavy metal, power metal, death metal, progressive metal, doom metal.. y puedo decir que constant motion tiene un riff inicial muy exotico y distinto a muchas canciones.. cortes de tiempo y arreglos vocales increibles, yo he visto en vivo esa cancion, y tambien la he tocado con mis amigos en un bar... y son de las canciones que mas agrada no solo al publico sino a los musicos tambien.. la bateria tambien increible composicion.
Never has almost 11 minutes passed so fast!
6:10 This is so beautiful ;(
These ten minute plus minute music videos need to happen more often.
Как апологет жанра, я не мог проигнорировать этот релиз. Третий альбом британцев Haken, думаю не уступает лучшим работам Pain Of Salvation и Dream Theater. При прослушивании альбома рождаются самые разные ассоциации, от Gentle Giant до Rush. А чего стоит удивительное соло на бузуки( 3:44 - 4:18 ) в этой композиции...
La primera vez que escuché ésta obra maestra fué en la noche....oscuridad, viaje....mística!! Wooow!
3:20 whoever thought it was a good idea to put those band pic in the video was clearly drunk... nice song still
Charlu Go Well I imagine the budget for putting together some epic 11 minute music video to accompany THIS would be more than just a pretty penny, so..
ya know... now that I think of it, the guys of Haken probably did that just to fuck with us lol
Whoever thought it was a good idea to make a 10+ minute music video was even more drunk.
Lol
Nice... i was in the Luna Park concert.. i'm waiting so badly this DVD, maybe i can be there in some section of it. Greets from Argentina !
It's like dream theater with a good singer... i LOVE it! :)
Dream theater's singer is amazing, he has an amazing range in his voice and he's powerful.
IncestialBeing ur wrong
Blown away. Now a fan. WOW!
The piece starting at 5:23 gives me goosebumps, so simple and so good. :)
Nothing is simple with prog bands
Simple?
One of the best Prog rock songs ........ever
Between the buried and me -brought me here!
Been listening to this album for weeks straight. It's been a long time since an album stuck with me for so long. Prog album of the year IMO with the Flower Kings "Desolation Rose" the runner up!!
Same here! I've been listening this album like crazy. "Falling back to earth" jeez that song is crazy.
Para quienes dicen que esto es DT:
mi opinion, esta influenciado claramente por dream, pero tambien tiene mucho de otros estilos. El estilo que tocan (siendo prog metal) no se parece a dream. Este es un estilo más versátil, más innovador, más "movido" por asi decirlo, a veces mas complejo en termino de arreglo de compases (sobretodo este ultimo album).
No estoy diciendo que es mejor banda que dream... solo digo que no son comparables ;D amo a estas dos bandas
Correct !!!
First band in my prog/experimental collection that has 7 albums (don't tell me that "Restoration" is EP))...
and EACH OF THEM are masterpiece! I kneel before you, Haken!!!
The Mountain - best prog release of 2013, perhaps sharing that title with The Raven That Refused to Sing. We've been spoiled this year, progheads. If you don't already own this, do yourself a favor and spin it from beginning to end - it's brilliant (and this track I might even consider one of the weaker ones, minus the instrumental section).
Agree. But I think Steven Wilson's is THE MASTERPIECE: one of the best records I've heard in many many years.
Jose Fernando Vasco I'm absolutely agree.
***** The Theory of Everything is brilliant. I had never heard of Ayreon until a few months ago. I can't believe what I was missing! The Human Equation is incredible too.
***** Also... you just got me into Leprous. Thanks for the recommendation!
The Mountain is my album of 2013, absolutely love it.
Guys been listening to all the prog greats for to many years to mention and been a musician for all of those years so i know a track when i hear one , and that is one special piece of music .. stunning work !
Literally hearing this for the first time - wow. Lot of lost time to make up, this is awesome. Keep up the great prog effort!
Seconded. Someone posted Atlas Stone on r/progmetal and this was the recommended video after it ended. I may be hooked.
Bloody amazing!
3:44 so much Dream Theater, holy shit. I love Haken, though.
Did DT use bouzouki as well?
@@meanangel8114 Maybe in Home from Scenes?
@@talaniel
They Used Sitar In Home...
As Jordan Played It On Keyboard...
sii señor muy grandes !! y vienen a españa !!!!! 10.4.14 - Shoco, Madrid, ESP,11.4.14 - Apolo 2, Barcelona, ESP, gran banda de progresivo bastante innovadora, me han sorprendido y mucho. No faltare al concierto !!!
Straight in my face... what is the name of the ethnic stringed instrument in the middel of the song by the way?
+ATastic Godless greek bouzouki
NuMeditationMusic : thnx
Loving all of their songs. I just found out about them today and am beyond happy.
this solo reminds me "outcry" solo from Dream Theater
I respect you guys so much, interacting with fans/other people and shit
3:44 Fuck!
Sounds excellent. Looking forward to the album!
Its like dream theater with a good singer and without annoying keyboard sounds, love it
Precious album in my collection, thanks for vid.
Does anyone else find the chorus for this song an incredibly effective earworm?
wow... yeah..I have to buy this album!
Epic mandoline!
+Joep van den Nieuwenhuizen (MuziekJoep) greek bouzouki actually :)
+Yvan Cluet oh okay. Bazooka it is!
Joep van den Nieuwenhuizen exactly !
+Yvan Cluet ouzo is nice tho
Ειναι μπουζουκι
Best progessive metal song ever !!!!
Benchmark for 1.000 bands.
3:30 - 4:40 = A change of pants.
yes this track is great also the album. I like it!!!
Eargasm!
Kimberly Mateluna exact 🎧🎸🎧✌☝👏😍😎 chik native construct
What an amazing discovery. Progressive Metal at its best!
Lol it's the intro to Alien at the end.
Sooo... The outro?
metabog We got a sherlock holmes here
So my name has spread, good work my dear watson, publicity is the present day brothels! :D
Ridley Crillos ;-)
Beautiful clip!!!
Everyone should check out Native Construct if they haven't already.
You're welcome.
Omni Codex Seconded
Omni Codex Thank you sir, to bring another amazing and very unique prog band in my life. I suggest you to listen to 'Bad Salad' as they are very unknown and very good prog as well ;)
Twilight_Force Addicted I'll check them out. Thnx!
#SharingIsCaring
ChrisakacIoud Never have. Will def check out.
Just found Native Construct the other day. Absolutely love Quiet World!
didnt know what pareidolia was - got pleasantly surprised from google images
It is a song from a band to which every listener finds patterns from other bands where they dont exist.
Did you see the definition of Pareidolia? I think the band just sat down and went: "Shit, everyone's gonna compare us to anything remotely prog for this one..." - "Well, we don't have a title for this yet, let's fuck with them."
Don't forget the homage to Alien at the end of the video to top it all off.
I like how their fans participate in the clip, it's a nice initiative. you can see it at 3:47 in the background!
Is that a Boozooki?
A bazooka?
may be the BEST ROCK song of decade......so hopeful !!!
3:44 - 4:42 I can't help but laugh at the imagine of a bearded dude with only pink pants on dejnting this part whilst only staring at you angrily, not moving besides playing the notes, never breaking eyecontact
Vocals sound like Riverside. Awesome.
1st time listener here. This stuff is brilliant!
When DT and Tool married....
+Alvi Achdiyat Is there oriental instruments in DT or Tool 's musics ?
+MakiKata Check out Right in Two by Tool. It has a tabla solo!
+MakiKata Dream Theater - Home. Similar bass line to Tool's 46 & 2.
Tool didn't invent the bouzouki and the 5/8 rhythm. These are Greek influences. The title should've tipped you off.
this song is a miracle.
T H I S I S M Y J A M
Amazing, can't wait for buying the album!
Dat electric fan though
I'm hearing both aquarius and visions along with some new sound!
Just brilliant as always !
You people are comparing this with DT?
This is something that DT will not even think of Writing.
Just a few time signatures, key changes and strangeness doesn't make it comparable with Theater.
Dream Theater is about soul, those who listen to them, know it.
Hail, DT.
Shubham Mishra Sorry dude...But Dream Theatre used to be about the most technically amazing band ever and all viruosos yes...I'm the biggest fan of DT since the 90s Greatest Images and Words...that said...Haken is Great Prog band with as much soul as DT or more
I love DT but IMO Haken has 15x as much soul in their music as DT has...