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Progressive metal pioneers on double headline tour

What Haken is to the UK, Between The Buried And Me is to the USA the USA: the most exciting and successful progressive progressive metal band in the country. Over many years and albums, both bands have both bands have built up a loyal fan base worldwide and are now coming are now coming to Germany as part of their Island In Limbo tour. Both groups have their latest album in their luggage: Haken released the longplayer "Virus" in 2020; Between The Buried And Me succeeded in 2021 with the work "Colors II". On March 02, 2023, the bands will bands will present a cross-section of their broad oeuvre in Karlsruhe. They were teenagers when singer Ross Jennings, multi-instrumentalist Richard Henshall Henshall and guitarist Matthew Marshall founded the band Haken in London in 2007. Haken in London in 2007. In the beginning, the three of them mainly undertook so-called "bedroom jams" until three more musicians completed the line-up.

Over the years and albums, her fascination with electronic electronic ingredients continued to grow: On her fourth album "Affinity" contained elements from dubstep and the wave-pop of the 80s wave pop, whereas the last two albums to date, "Vector" and "Virus", which tell a coherent story about the mythical creature of the "Cockroach King", are the band's heaviest to date and contain elements of djent. Despite this great willingness to experiment their international fan base has grown steadily: since their third album "The Mountain", their international breakthrough, every record has climbed the charts the charts across Europe. The current album "Virus", for example, climbed to to number 12 in Germany. The upcoming gigs should be interesting interesting because, following the departure of Diego Tejeida at the end of the end of last year, founding member Pete Jones has returned to the band. has returned to the band.

What hooks the world of electronic ingredients, are for Between The Buried And Me, founded in Raleigh/North Carolina in 2000, the most diverse The Buried And Me, founded in 2000 in Raleigh/North Carolina. This
quintet is no exception, which, after a few line-up changes in its early phase, also has its roots in sophisticated progressive metal. roots in sophisticated progressive metal, to which they add elements depending on the depending on the content of their albums, with elements of technically complicated death metal, metalcore, avant-garde metal and trash metal, only to return a moment later to powerful alternative rock. only to sound like powerful alternative rock a moment later. Through this styles, Between The Buried And Me always stood a little between the between the stools and didn't belong to any real scene - a unique selling point that they made the main theme of their fourth album "Colors" from 2007 as the main theme. It was also the first of their albums to the top 100 of the Billboard charts, where they have been a permanent guest with every new record since then. Due to the corona pandemic, the band had to the band had to postpone their planned 20th anniversary world tour; instead, they went back into the studio to record "Colors II", a sequel to their internal reflection on the band, this time triggered triggered by external factors. "Colors II" is already her tenth album album and is also considered by experts to be their most exciting - because their progressive metal has never sounded so independent and unmistakable. sounded before.