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Darkest Light
8 (50%)
Earthlings
5 (31.3%)
Crystallised
3 (18.8%)

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Voting closed: December 06, 2018, 12:26:10 PM

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The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« on: December 05, 2018, 12:26:10 PM »
Previous round results:

Atlas Stone 13 (68.4%)
Falling Back to Earth 6 (31.6%)

Songs not mentioned here received zero votes.

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The Mountain Results:

1. Falling Back to Earth
2. Atlas Stone

3. Pareidolia
4. Cockroach King
5. In Memoriam
6. Because It's There
7. Somebody
8. As Death Embraces
9. The Path

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Restoration (EP) Results:

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Haken Survivor Main Thread

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Haken's fourth release was not a full album, but an EP consisting of 'just' 3 songs. Their first release since the auditioned new bass players after the departure of long-time member Tom McLean, this is the first release to feature Connor Green on bass, who already shows off his skills in some of these songs. The special ting about this release being not only this, but the fact that all of these songs are reworked versions from the band's very first demo release. The songs 'Blind', 'Black Seed' and 'Snow' got reworked (and in all cases, extended) into these three songs the album has to offer.

Since this release, I feel this album has been mostly overlooked by fans, expect for the EP's longest track, 'Crystallised', which despite its length gets featured quite often in Haken's live sets, while the other two go largely ignored (something I personally think is a shame). While this is certainly not a full album, there's no denying that even in the band's earliest work, there's a lot of great stuff to be found and it's a nice, albeit unusual, experiment to dig up that old material and rework it into a more modern style.

Three songs means only two rounds. This round's loser goes out, the result of next round determines which song goes to Consolation or straight to the Finals.
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #1 on: December 05, 2018, 12:45:11 PM »
I'll obviously be in a minority here, but: Crystallised.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #2 on: December 05, 2018, 12:46:18 PM »
(and in all cases, extended)
Not true, Darkest Light was trimmed down from Blind.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #3 on: December 05, 2018, 12:46:47 PM »
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #4 on: December 05, 2018, 01:11:36 PM »
(and in all cases, extended)
Not true, Darkest Light was trimmed down from Blind.

Oh, I dod it from memory. I should look stuff up apparently. Sorry, Datkest Light is indeed shorter (and probably for the better, but that’s a different discussion).

My vote goes to Crystallised as well by the way.
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2018, 01:58:29 PM »
People called Rich who vote out Crystallised are awesome. Fact.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #6 on: December 05, 2018, 02:50:23 PM »
None of the songs on this EP are particularly good but Earthlings is the best by virtue of being the only one that improved the original

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #7 on: December 05, 2018, 03:53:20 PM »
I'll obviously be in a minority here, but: Crystallised.

Earthlings is The best!  :coolio

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #8 on: December 05, 2018, 05:04:19 PM »
Earthlings

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« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2018, 05:41:36 PM »
Darkest Light

I'm a big fan of this EP, I'd love to see them play Earthlings live, as it's one of my favorites by Haken  :tup

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« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2018, 07:44:56 PM »
Crystalized is IMO their all time greatest song.   The other two are extremely good, but a coin toss.   

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2018, 07:55:03 PM »
Earthlings.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2018, 02:41:17 AM »
Crystalized is IMO their all time greatest song. 
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2018, 02:57:32 AM »
ffs, this vote distribution :lol
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2018, 09:08:49 AM »
blind to your obsession
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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2018, 10:05:09 AM »
Phew, got home just in time to vote.

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« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2018, 12:23:46 PM »
Crystalized is IMO their all time greatest song. 
Well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: The HAKEN Survivor - Restoration: Penultimate Round!
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2018, 01:12:05 PM »
Phew, got home just in time to vote.

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