British prog metal group Haken have announced a May 09th release date for their new live album, “Liveforms: An Evening With Haken“. That outing captures the band’s September 21st, 2024 set at the O2 Forum in London, England. As was the case with their touring last year, the group performed their latest album “Fauna” in full during that show. They followed that up with an additional set of fan favorites.
This concert was filmed by Paul Green Productions (Devin Townsend, Steve Hackett) and mixed by Jens Bogren (Between The Buried And Me, Ihsahn). Outside of the audio release, a 3-CD+Blu-ray edition will capture the performance in 5.1 surround sound. Interviews which each band member will be included with that edition as well. The band commented:
“The Evening With Haken tour across North America and Europe was without a doubt one of our favourite tours we’ve done, showcasing 3 hours of music from our entire discography, including our latest record ‘Fauna‘ performed in full which was an absolute blast! Conducting an ‘evening with’ format is something that we’ve seen tried and tested by some of our favourite artists, and it felt like an important band bucket list item to tick off at this stage in our career, to celebrate all we’ve achieved in the last 15 years.
When discussions arose as to which show we might document on film, it was a no-brainer for us that our homecoming show in London, at the legendary 02 Kentish Town Forum, should be the one. And the home crowd did not disappoint, on what turned out to be such an electric atmosphere, we just so happened to capture one of our best performances from the entire tour for our fans to relive again and again.”
Below you fan watch the featured performance of “Beneath The White Rainbow” from the set.
“Liveforms: An Evening With Haken” track listing:
Set 1:
01 – “The Last Lullaby”
02 – “Taurus”
03 – “Nightingale”
04 – “The Alphabet Of Me”
05 – “Sempiternal Beings”
06 – “Beneath The White Rainbow”
07 – “Island In The Clouds”
08 – “Lovebite”
09 – “Elephants Never Forget”
10 – “Eyes Of Ebony”
11 – “Crystallised”
Set 2:
01 – “Puzzle Box”
02 – “Earthrise”
03 – “Cockroach King”
04 – “Nil By Mouth”
05 – “1985”
06 – “The Strain”
07 – “ Strainwreck”
08 – “Canary Yellow”
09 – “Drowning In The Flood”
10 – “Visions”
For pre-orders, see haken.lnk.to/Liveforms-Album. The band’s live plans at the moment run as follows:
04/04th-09th Cruise To The Edge 2025
04/25 San Jose, CRI – Club Peppers
04/27 Mexico City, MEX – Sale Puebla
04/29 Buenos Aires, ARG – El Teatro Flores
04/30 Montevideo, URY – Live Era
05/02 Santiago, CHL – Teatro Cariola
04/04 Sao Paulo, BRA – Bankers Open Air
