Haken blev dannet i 2007 af multi-instrumentalisten Richard Henshall, guitaristen Matthew Marshall og vokalisten Ross Jennings. På deres seneste udgivelse, ’’Fauna’’ (2023) udøver bandet fortsat deres eksperimenterende blanding af alt fra metal, progressiv rock og jazz, mens de udforsker temaer som natur, menneskets forhold til miljøet og dyrelivet, samt den eksistentielle søgen efter mening og formål.
“The premise of the album when we started writing it was that every song would have an animal assigned to it,” - forklarer sanger og medstifter Ross Jennings. “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”. - Haken
’’Fauna’’ er blevet rost af både fans og kritikere for dets dybde, kompleksitet og sammenhængende konceptuelle fortælling. Det viser Hakens evne til konstant at udfordre sig selv og deres lyttere, samtidig med at de forbliver tro mod deres egen unikke lyd og vision. Den 9. september udfolder de albummet i sin helhed på Bremen Teater.
"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!" – fortæller bandet.
