Haken recently announced that their album Virus will be released on June 5th. Along with the announcement, the band also released a music video for their single “Prosthetic.” The album was directed by Vicente Cordero.
On the album, the band says
“‘Prosthetic‘ was the first song we completed during the ‘Virus‘ writing sessions and we always felt it would be the perfect opener for the album. It’s a very guitar heavy track with its roots in 80s thrash riffing, but with the unconventional rhythmic twists and turns we often like to explore in Haken. We sadly never had a Jeff Hanneman and Robert Fripp collaboration, but this song at least draws on inspiration from them both!
Lyrically the song is a bridge between our two albums ‘Vector‘ and ‘Virus‘. The message was brilliantly brought to life by video director Vicente Cordero, who also beautifully captured the live energy of the band in a way that both enhances the song, and perfectly sets the scene for what’s to come.”
Drummer Ray Hearne adds:
“Since releasing ‘The Mountain‘ in 2013, one question has been asked of us time and time again, ‘who is the Cockroach King?’. This is something we were interested in exploring more deeply too, so we essentially did that through our music; elaborating and expanding upon the intervallic, harmonic, rhythmic and lyrical themes of that song. The end result is in an arc which spans across two albums: ‘Vector‘ and ‘Virus‘.”
Adam “Nolly” Getgood of Periphery mixed the upcoming album, which you can pre-order here. Full track listing is below:
01 – “Prosthetic”
02 – “Invasion”
03 – “Carousel”
04 – “The Strain”
05 – “Canary Yellow”
06 – “Messiah Complex I: Ivory Tower”
07 – “Messiah Complex II: A Glutton For Punishment”
08 – “Messiah Complex III: Marigold”
09 – “Messiah Complex IV: The Sect”
10 – “Messiah Complex V: Ectobius Rex”
11 – “Only Stars”
