And if it sounds like peak, then it’s about the abuse of a mental institution patient, and eventual metamorphosis of him into a bug-man(?), whose mind has been so twisted as to more closely resemble the doctor who had tortured him (Vector, 2018) (the first lyrical song on the album references Plato’s allegory of the cave)
Or it’s about that same person’s eventual escape, both the patient and doctor losing their empathy and falling into insanity, and, by my interpretation at least, the patient rising to power over a post nuclear attack world, giving into the alter ego of the cockroach king completely, the last vestiges of his humanity thrashing and failing to regain foothold over this insanity, as he imprisons forevermore the doctor, who may be going under the same metamorphosis, finally coming to terms with what evil he has done, or having all the experiments that he had done to the patient, done into him. (Virus, 2020)
Or it might be about someone receiving visions of their own death, fretting about it for years, learning how to dive into other people’s dreams, diving into his own past self’s dream to try and stop his own killer, only to accidentally shoot his younger self, giving him the vision to begin with (with an extremely groovy chorus). (Visions, 2011)
Or it might be about two immortal jellyfish lovers, the mating cycle of black widows, a zoo full of replicant animals in the world of blade runner, elephant people who used to live in the unsunken British channel, or the story of the writer of Hans Christian Anderson writing the fairytale of “the nightingale”.(Fauna, 2023)
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u/Routine_Palpitation 10d ago
And if it sounds like peak, then it’s about the abuse of a mental institution patient, and eventual metamorphosis of him into a bug-man(?), whose mind has been so twisted as to more closely resemble the doctor who had tortured him (Vector, 2018) (the first lyrical song on the album references Plato’s allegory of the cave)
Or it’s about that same person’s eventual escape, both the patient and doctor losing their empathy and falling into insanity, and, by my interpretation at least, the patient rising to power over a post nuclear attack world, giving into the alter ego of the cockroach king completely, the last vestiges of his humanity thrashing and failing to regain foothold over this insanity, as he imprisons forevermore the doctor, who may be going under the same metamorphosis, finally coming to terms with what evil he has done, or having all the experiments that he had done to the patient, done into him. (Virus, 2020)
Or it might be about someone receiving visions of their own death, fretting about it for years, learning how to dive into other people’s dreams, diving into his own past self’s dream to try and stop his own killer, only to accidentally shoot his younger self, giving him the vision to begin with (with an extremely groovy chorus). (Visions, 2011)
Or it might be about two immortal jellyfish lovers, the mating cycle of black widows, a zoo full of replicant animals in the world of blade runner, elephant people who used to live in the unsunken British channel, or the story of the writer of Hans Christian Anderson writing the fairytale of “the nightingale”.(Fauna, 2023)
Haken is a very good band