Formed in 2007, Haken is a virtuoso progressive rock / progressive metal band from London, England, comprising some of the country's finest young musicians. Featured in the band are members of To-Mera and Linear Sphere and Anchorhead. In July 2007, Haken showcased their music for the very first time to a packed out London bar with a great response, followed the next week by a sold out show at The Peel in Kingston. Within months of this double-debut performance, Haken were billed in support of Riverside (Inside Out) at Camden's prestigious Underworld. Haken continued performing sets to packed houses throughout London and on UK tours in support of cult metal bands King's X (Inside Out), Bigelf (Custard Records), and To-Mera. One of Haken's demo tracks was featured on the cover CD for the second issue of 'Classic Rock Presents Prog' magazine in 2009. Haken meld metal with progressive rock, drawing influences from contemporary bands like Dream Theater and IQ as well as "old school" icons Genesis and Queen. _Aquarius_ is Haken's debut release - a 72 minute, larger than life conceptual sci-fi/fantasy work filled with bombastic keyboard flourishes, stunning vocals, and lethal guitarwork. The album was recorded in Germany at Spacelab Studios (Delain, Everon, Wolverine) and mastered in Germany at Eroc's Mastering Ranch. The stunning artwork is by Dennis Sibeijn at Damn Engine created to tie in with the Aquarius story. Early on in the writing process for the album, Haken were contacted by the Laser's Edge Group who later signed the band to their specialist progressive metal label Sensory Records, through which _Aquarius- _ was released worldwide in March 2010 Rob Kachluba - Hell Hound. 'I am totally blown away. Haken is the best thing to happen to progressive metal in many, many years. Hailing from England, this relatively young band has unleashed a masterpiece.' In their brief existence, HAKEN have become highly respected within the British metal and progressive communities. Their unique and imaginative genre-bending approach to music has garnered praise from all corners of the globe and they are becoming more widely known in The States and across Europe with interest beginning to develop in Japan and Australia. They played a high profile show with the legendary Freak Kitchen at the London Underworld in November 2011. They played the new UK Prog Metal Fused Festival with Vanden Plas and Threshold in April 2011 and a sell out warm up HEADLINE show for this festival at the HOUSE of PROGRESSION in Kingston Upon Thames with To-Mera - 25 March. HAKEN played at MONKEYFEST 2011 in the UK on July 2_2011 with Guthrie Govan, Rob Chapman and Andy James. HAKEN played on the same bill as Dream Theater at Loreley in Germany at NIGHT of the PROG VI on July 9 - 2011, along with Anathema, Vanden Plas and IQ. There were lots of HAKEN T-shirts in the front and they had the best show so far to a generous and enthusiastic crowd, culminating with a standing ovation.. A beautiful weekend of great friends and great progressive music. HAKEN made their highly well received USA debut at CENTER STAGE in Atlanta as part of the prestigious PROGPOWER USA XII in September 2011 alongside some legendary bands including Therion, Sanctuary, Vanden Plas, Evergrey, Forbidden, Labyrinthe and Ihsahn. They headlined Day One of GENERATION PROG with Exivious in Nurnberg - Sep 23 - 24, 2011. Haken are billed to play a great prog show at THE ASSEMBLY in Leamington Spa on Nov 27, 2011, with Arena and Touchstone. AQUARIUS continues to take the progmetal world community by storm - inspiring passionate debate on the established prog and metal forums around the World and was progarchives no1 album of 2010. VISIONS, their second concept album, will be released on October 24th 2011 on The Sensory Label [Laser’s Edge]. They have aimed to raise the bar with their composition and their playing and move up to the next level. Pre release copies sold exculsively at PROGPOWER USA XII in Atlanta and GENERATION PROG in Nuremberg ahve already received critical claim and placed them at the top of The Progarchives 2011 a prog album chart A track from VISIONS will be on the free CD in issue 21 of Classic Rock presents Prog 21 out in late November 2011, along with an interview and album review. HAKEN has an official website THE POINT OF NO RETURN - A big appreciative HAKEN thank you goes out to Richard Jouen for designing and running this site so passionately and professionally: http://www.hakenmusic.com/ hakenmusic@hotmail.co.uk

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Between the Buried and Me is a progressive metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina, comprised of former members of metalcore acts Prayer For Cleansing and Glass Casket. They have recorded seven albums in addition to a covers album and an EP. Their style is diverse, with influences ranging from thrash, death metal, jazz, math rock and melodic hardcore, to progressive or experimental artists such as Dream Theater, Mike Patton, King Crimson, Queen, and The Mars Volta. Members include vocalist/keyboardist and co-founder Tommy Giles Rogers, Jr. (Thomas Giles; ex-Prayer For Cleansing, Undying, From Here On); lead guitarist and co-founder Paul Waggoner (ex-Prayer For Cleansing, Undying); Glass Casket guitarist Dustie Waring and drummer Blake Richardson; and bassist Dan Briggs (Trioscapes, ORBS). Formed in 2000, the band signed to Victory Records in 2003, before catching the attention of Metal Blade Records and singing to that label in 2012. In late 2014, it was revealed that the band was writing material for their seventh original studio album, "Coma Ecliptic," described on the band's twitter as a "rock opera." Recording began in early 2015 with long-time producer Jamie King, and it is scheduled to be released on Metal Blade records on July 7, 2015. The first single, "Memory Palace", was made available in April. Former members include: guitarists Marc Duncan (ex-Prayer For Cleansing), Nick Fletcher (ex-Empire Falls, Azazel), and Shane Blay (Oh, Sleeper, Wovenwar; ex-Evelynn, Die Trying); bassists Jason King (ex-Azazel), and Kevin Falk (The Material, ex-Every Time I Die); and drummers Will Goodyear (Voids; ex-Prayer For Cleansing, Lobbyist), Jason Roe (ex-Evelynn, Mauled by a Cougar), and Mark Castillo (Emmure; ex-Crossfade, The Acacia Strain, Bury Your Dead, Hamartia). Their material consists of the following albums: Between The Buried And Me (2002) The Silent Circus (2003) Alaska (2005) The Anatomy Of (2006, covers album) Colors (2007, plus live DVD) The Great Misdirect (2009) The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues EP (2011) The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012, plus live dvd) Coma Ecliptic (2015, plus live dvd) Automata I (2018) Automata II (2018) [url=http://[officialsite]betweentheburiedandme.com/]http://betweentheburiedandme.com/ Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

Cryptodira is a extreme progressive metal/post-metal band from Mount Sinai, NY. The band's original lineup was Scott Acquavella (vocals, guitar), Shane Kennedy (bass, vocals), Mike Monaco (guitar, vocals), and Matthew Taibi (drums). Kennedy left the band in 2017 to pursue his career in computer science. He was replaced by Jeremy Lewis, a longtime friend of the band, in the same year. The band was unsigned until 2017; they self-released three EPs: The Four Quarters in 2012, Recursions in 2013, and An Unmarked Grave in 2014. In 2017 they signed to Good Fight Music and their debut full-length album The Devil's Despair will be released on November 17, 2017. Cryptodira has shared the stage with a variety of bands including Deafheaven, Between the Buried and Me, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Stray From the Path, Ever Forthright, Hollow Earth, and Scale the Summit. They also recorded a song with guest vocals by Andrew Herman of Johnny Booth titled "Allies to Ignorance." In 2015 they released a 7" split with East of the Wall. Cryptodira contributed the new track "Speaking the Ocean" and East of the Wall contributed a cover of Nick Drake's "River Man." This 7" will be released on January 13 via Epistemic Records and available at two record release shows that the bands are playing together in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Cryptodira has a Bandcamp page at http://cryptodira.bandcamp.com and Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/cryptodira.

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