HAKEN Shares New Single 'Bleeding Sky', Announces European Tour

U.K. progressive, alternative metal band HAKEN has released another brand new song titled "Bleeding Sky". As with "In A Fever Dream", which came out in May and marked HAKEN's first new music in three years, "Bleeding Sky" was co-produced and mixed by George Lever (LOATHE, SLEEP TOKEN) and features some of the most emotionally direct material of the band's career so far. On this song, HAKEN recruited Adam "Nolly" Getgood (PERIPHERY) to play bass.

Watch the visualizer for "Bleeding Sky", created by Oliver Kember, below.

HAKEN also recently announced a European headline tour for September and October 2026.

The band comments: "We're really excited to bring this music to the stage. We've been putting together a brand new show and can't wait to return to Europe for it."

HAKEN European tour dates:

Sep. 23 - Salamandra, Barcelona, Spain
Sep. 25 - Kiff, Aarau, Switzerland
Sep. 26 - Trabendo, Paris, France
Sep. 27 - Euroblast Festival, Cologne, Germany
Sep. 28 - Backstage Halle, Munich, Germany
Sep. 29 September - Dürer Kert Man Hall, Budapest, Hungary
Sep. 30 - Roxy, Prague, Czech Republic
Oct. 01 - Simm City, Vienna, Australia
Oct. 03 - Magazzini Generali, Milan, Italy
Oct. 04 - Largo, Rome, Italy
Oct. 06 - Frannz Club, Berlin, Germany
Oct. 07 - Oczki, Warsaw, Poland
Oct. 09 - Olympia-Kortteli, Tampere, Finland
Oct. 10 - Logomo Teatro, Turku, Finland
Oct. 11 - Tavastia, Helsinki, Finland
Oct. 13 - Rockefeller, Oslo, Norway
Oct. 15 - Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark

HAKEN is:

Ross Jennings
Richard Henshall
Pete Jones
Ray Hearne

This past January, HAKEN parted ways with guitarist Charlie Griffiths and bassist Conner Green.Griffiths and Green's exits from HAKEN were announced in a social media post. The band wrote: "It's with heavy hearts that we announce the departure of Charlie Griffiths and Conner Green from HAKEN. We are tremendously grateful for the time we've spent together, creating music and touring the world, achieving things we thought weren't possible.

"Both Charlie and Conner are irreplaecable, as musicians and individuals, and they have given so much to make this band what it is today. We cannot thank them enough, but we wish them all the best with any future endeavours. They will always be a part of the HAKEN family.

"New music coming this year."

Last October, HAKEN canceled its U.K. tour dates as the support act for U.S. progressive rockers COHEED AND CAMBRIA.

Griffiths had been a member of HAKEN since 2008 and appeared on all of the band's albums so far. He released his debut solo LP, "Tiktaalika", in 2022.

Green joined HAKEN in 2014 as the replacement for the band's original bassist Thomas MacLean.

HAKEN spent 2024 celebrating its most recent acclaimed studio album, 2023's "Fauna", as part of "An Evening With" run throughout the world. Playing two sets each night, the band performed "Fauna" in full, before returning to the stage to run through a selection of the best-loved cuts from its catalog. In a homecoming of sorts for HAKEN, on September 21, 2024 the band played London's legendary O2 Forum, and the document of that special evening — filmed by Paul Green Productions (Devin Townsend, Steve Hackett) and mixed by Jens Bogren (BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME, Ihsahn) — was made available as "Liveforms: An Evening With Haken".

Photo credit: Oli Kember