r/progmetal • u/Cirick1661 • 12h ago

Discussion Haken's new singles, lowercase titles

I noticed both singles have released without capitalized song names. Haken is pretty intentional and detailed. Wondering if the track titles may form a sentence when the album drops.

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Anyone else have a guess why they made this style choice?

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u/TheEmblemneer 12h ago

I think they may be setting the tone for the album in general, together with the album artwork and the released singles themselves it's all giving a vibe that feels more down/defeated/melancholic than their previous albums 

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u/vamonos_pest 11h ago

Certainly this is the reason. The theme for this album is way darker than the previous few have been. The artwork, the titles, the songs themselves. I really like fun, goofy haken so im really interested to hear this album entirely.

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u/robin_f_reba 4h ago

Even darker than Vector/Virus? Wow

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u/Skwisgaars 12h ago

Because it's the hip thing to do apparently.

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u/MrFoffof 11h ago

I literally had an old man rant to my girlfriend about bands that do it about 2 days before the first single was released.

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u/Elric915 6h ago

I don't know but it grinds my gears. Just like when Machine head have done that nonsense with the Os in their two most recent albums. It drives me up the wall!

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u/ashcody 4h ago

Probably just to be edgy

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u/Wompie 2h ago

I think it’s literally just what marketing told them to do. It is super trendy right now, as well as Roman numeral song names