Fauna (Haken album)
2023 album by Haken
Fauna is the seventh studio album by English progressive metal band Haken. It was released on 3 March 2023 through Inside Out Music. The album is the first release without keyboardist Diego Tejeida, who left the band in 2021. Founding member Peter Jones served as his replacement. The first single "Nightingale" was released on 26 April 2022, when the band had not yet started to record the whole album. The second single "The Alphabet of Me" was first announced, along with the cover art and name of the album, at their website with a puzzle game.
In February 2025, a live album was announced by the name of Liveforms, which contains a live performance of Fauna in its entirety.
Fauna is their last studio album featuring guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green, who both left the band in early 2026.
Background
About the origin of the album, singer Ross Jennings said:
When composing and presenting initial song sketches, we very much had an "anything goes" mentality, and whilst sounding atypically Haken, it was a piece that was all exciting us to explore and integrate into our song canon. Where the lyrics are concerned, I leant heavily on one of my favourite writers Philip K. Dick, for inspiration.
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