Haken: Finally on tour!

Haken is a band I like extremely much, and when they now announce The Island In Limbo Tour I`m Thrilled. Actually this is the first European tour since 2019! As a very solid and good bonus the fantastic prog metal band Between The Buried And Me joins Haken on the tour as a co-headliner. There will be 36 gigs and one on Rockefeller in Norway 29: Mars. Wow! The track Nightingale from Haken,

Haken Island In Limbo European Tour Dates 2023:

Feb 21: GER Hambrug Gruenspan

Feb 22: GER Leipzig Werk 2-Kulturfabrik

Feb 23: GER Belrin Heimathafen Neukölln

Feb 24: POL Warsaw Proxima

Feb 25: CZE Prague Palac Arkopolis

Feb 26: AUS Vienna Simm City

Feb 28: HUN Budapest Dürer Kert

Mar 1: GER Munich Freiheitshalle

Mar 2: GER Karlsruhe Stadtmitte

Mar 3: SWI Aarau Kiff Saal

Mar 4: ITA Milan New Age

Mar 6: FRA Lyon Ninkasi Kao

Mar 8: SPA Barcelona Razzmatazz 2,

Mar 9: SPA Madrid Mon

Mar 10: PSA Murcia Garaje

Mar 11: SPA Seville Custom

Mar 12: POR Lisbon Lisboa Ao Vivo

Mar 13: POR Porto Hard Club

Mar 15: FRA Toulouse Connexion Live

Mar 16: FRA Nantes Ferrailleur

Mar 17: FRA Paris Alhambra

Mar 19: LUX Esch-Sur-Alzette Rockhal

Mar 20: GER Cologne Bürgerhaus Stollwerck

Mar 21: BEL Antwerp Trix Club

Mar 22: NED Tilburg 013 Poppodium

Mar 23: UK Bristol SWX

Mar 24: UK Manchester Academy 2

Mar 25: UK Glasgow The Garage

Mar 26: UK London 02 Shepherds Bush Empire

Mar 28: DEN Aarhus Voxhall

Mar 29: NOR Oslo Rockefeller

Mar 30: DEN Copenhagen Pumpehuset Kransal

Mar 31: SWE Stockholm Fryshuset Klubben

Apr 2: FIN Tampere Olympia-kortelli

Apr 3: FIN Helsinki Vanha Ylioppilastalo

Apr 5: SWE Gothenberg Pustervik

Hamburg in Germany is the where the first concert takes place February 21 and the tour end in Gothenburg in Sweden . This is a gigantic tour that last for close to six weeks. This must be very hard with such an intense bur probably also very fun I guess. The mentioned band are support by the fine and experimental band Cryptodira. The track Hyperwealth,

Haken vocalist states about the tour, «We’ve missed all those familiar faces in the audience, and can’t wait to welcome all the new fans to be part of the Haken live experience, too! After three years away, and two cancelled tours due to the pandemic, our return to the European stage is going to feel very powerful indeed» .The BTBAM track The Future Is Behind Us,

«With new material imminent, and a bunch of songs from Viru’ still not performed live, we’re super excited to put the set list together for this run. We are also ecstatic to reunite with our dear friends and progressive metal cohorts, Between the Buried And Me as our co-headliners The tour stops at some of our bucket list venues,  including London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire, which is set to be our biggest London show to date! What could be better than celebrating our musical journey so far at the ultimate homecoming venue?!».

Haken release the album Virus in 2020, and they now working and soon finish with a new album, and this is the first album where original keyboard player Pete Jones rejoined the band. The track Pareidolia,

Haken hails from London and have so far released six album and as mentioned Virus came two years ago. The band released an epic debut in 2010 with the album Aquarius. The album last for solid 80 minutes, and suddenly all prog fans was familiar with the band. Initially Haken was a project by three school buddies Richard Henshall with guitar and keys, Ross Jennings with the vocal duty and Matt Marshall with guitars. Soon the trio was joined by drummer Raymond Hearne and keyboard wizard Pete Jones. With the help of To-Mera guitarist Tom Maclean on bass Haken the band released the three cut demo in 2007 that received very good response and got the band booked by the mighty Polish band Riverside.

Haken is a many-faced band that sometimes are song-oriented, sometimes avant-garde and often pretty heavy but always prog oriented and with hints of Italian symphonic prog.