![]() It was released on Inside Out Music on 29 April 2016. ![]() The official music video for the lead single, "Initiate", was released online on 18 March 2016. To promote the album, a long series of teasers had been posted by the band, jokingly referring to the new album as Verbatim. On 9 February 2016, a press release along with a micro site called "Haken OS 4.0.1" was released with information of Affinity. Shortly before, the band announced on Facebook that they had begun writing their fourth album. "Darkest Light", a reworked version of "Blind", was released with a music video featuring footage from the recording process of Restoration on 24 September. This EP contained three reworked tracks from Enter the 5th Dimension. Haken then released Restoration on 27 October 2014. Haken performing at the 2014 Ino Rock Festival. After a series of auditions, his position was filled by Conner Green. On 25 September, Haken announced that MacLean would be leaving the band after completing the Prog Stage Festival in Israel in October 2013. The album, released on 2 September by Inside Out Music, was mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren. Haken announced their third album, The Mountain, on 20 June 2013. Haken released their second album, Visions, in October 2011. They began recording for their debut album, Aquarius, soon after and released it in March 2010. Ken Golden of Sensory Records offered them a record deal after a referral. Keyboardist Diego Tejeida auditioned and eventually joined the band in late 2008 as well.Īquarius, Visions, and The Mountain Griffiths parted ways with Linear Sphere because he wanted to go in a different direction musically. Later that year, Marshall and Jones left the band to pursue other careers.Ĭharlie Griffiths, the guitarist for the band Linear Sphere and Anchorhead, became a full-time member of the band. Haken recorded a demo in 2007, followed by a full-length demo titled Enter the 5th Dimension in 2008. To-Mera guitarist Thomas MacLean became the band's bassist. They completed their lineup with a keyboardist they met on an online forum, Pete Jones, as well as Jones' close friend Raymond Hearne. He would later be asked to re-join as solely a vocalist. Early on, Jennings ended up parting ways with Henshall and Marshall as their guitar skills far eclipsed his own. At the time the three considered the jams as a hobby, but they eventually chose to focus on studying their instruments and rejoined three years later to form the band. Henshall mentioned on some occasions that "Haken" was the name of a fictional character he and some friends came up with in their school days, under the influence of alcohol or weed. Richard Henshall, Matthew Marshall, and Ross Jennings had grown up as friends in their teenage years and first had the idea to form Haken in 2004, when they would regularly play together in "casual bedroom jams". From left to right: Henshall, Jennings, Hearne, and Thomas MacLean.
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