Ten years since the band first formed, 2017 saw Haken’s first two albums, ‘Aquarius’ & ‘Visions’, were reissued through InsideOutMusic after being unavailable for a lengthy period of time. Remastered by the renowned Jens Bogren (Devin Townsend Project, Between The Buried & Me), who worked with the band on their last two studio albums ‘Affinity’ & ‘The Mountain’, this reissue saw the albums brought up to the sonic quality of their most recent output.
Originally released back in 2010, the band’s debut album ‘Aquarius’ capitalised on 3 years of work from the band which saw them staking their claim as one of the most exciting new progressive metal bands, playing with the likes of King’s X, Riverside & Bigelf. A 72-minute concept record that touched on themes of global warming, this album has long held a place in their fans’ hearts & the lengthy 17-minute closing track ‘Celestial Elixir’ remains in their set lists now.
Aquarius is the debut studio album by English progressive metal band Haken. Despite the band having released two previous demos, none of the multiple songs already recorded were re-released on this album. A 22-minute medley of the whole album, except for the song "Sun", was included in their live album L-1VE.
Ross Jennings – vocals
Richard "Hen" Henshall – guitar and keyboards
Charlie Griffiths – guitar
Thomas MacLean – bass guitar
Ray Hearne – drums, tuba, djembe
Diego Tejeida – keyboards
Craig Beattie – trombone
Alex Benwell – trumpet
Pablo Inda Garcia – clarinet
Marged Hall – harp
Darren Moore – trumpet
Jon Roskilly – trombone
Dave Ruff – flute
Misha Nikolic – recording (drums)
Tony Ashby – recording (additional)
Loz Anslow – recording (additional)
Christian Moos – mixing
Eroc – mastering
Dennis Sibeijn – artwork, design
