HAKEN’S RICHARD HENSHALL & CHARLIE GRIFFITHS

RICHARD HENSHALL

One of my favourite tracks on [new album] is . In a Tool-like fashion, we wrote this one in drop D tuning, which is always a good excuse to let loose a bit on the guitar. It. This one contains some of the most intense riffing on the album and is almost certainly the trickiest song we’ve ever written as a band. It should be fun for the crowd to watch us sweat our way through the finger gymnastics on this one! Another fun one to jam through is . It features a bunch of guitar-friendly open-triad voicings, and tips the hat to the likes of Radiohead and Elbow. I used my Strandberg Sälen for this one, which really complemented the crunchy tone of the music. In the past, we’ve been known to fuse traditional progressive elements with more modern heavier influences, but it really feels like these two aspects of our sound have become homogenised on . To me, it feels like our most cohesive effort to date, and is an album that fully realises and celebrates the influences that have helped shape us.”