Label Inside Out Music is really treating fans of prog this spring, with Caligula’s Horse’s superb Rise Radiant coming out just a short while prior to Haken’s sixth full-length release, Virus. Promising the conceptual follow-up to 2018’s excellent Vector, and with further references to the unusual ‘Cockroach King’ first mentioned on The Mountain, Virus is said to stretch Haken’s progressive chops even further than they have been before. After a couple of delays to their timeline, the Virus arrives in listeners’ ears on July 24th. Opening with the now-familiar-sounding “Prosthetic,” given its video came out back at the start of April, interplay between guitar, drums and keys reminiscent of Dream Theater’s Train Of Thought greets the listener which, as a first impression, is an extremely pos...
