L-1VE

L-1VE is the first live album and video album by British progressive metal band Haken. The album was released on 22 June 2018 and is the first Haken release in 2018, released 126 days before Vector and 168 days before L+1VE.

The album was promoted with two singles, live versions of "In Memoriam" from The Mountain, released on 11 May 2018, and "The Endless Knot" from Affinity, released 8 June 2018. The album comes with 2 CDs and 2 DVDs, along with a photobook of the concert.

Basis

L-1VE contains 11 live tracks performed in Amsterdam, Netherlands during the "Haken X" tour in 2017, including a 22-minute medley of Aquarius.

Tracklist

CD 1

Pos.	Song Title	Length
	Total Length:	49:00
1.	"affinity.exe"/"Initiate"	6:00
2.	"In Memoriam"	4:42
3.	"1985"	9:21
4.	"Red Giant"	6:31
5.	"Aquamedley"	22:26

CD 2

Pos.	Song Title	Length
	Total Length:	65:26
1.	"As Death Embraces"	3:50
2.	"Atlas Stone"	7:12
3.	"Cockroach King"	8:17
4.	"The Architect"	15:59
5.	"The Endless Knot"	6:34
5.	"Visions"	23:34

Personnel

Haken

Ross Jennings - vocals
Richard Henshall - guitars, keyboards, backing vocals
Charlie Griffiths - guitars, backing vocals
Diego Tejeida - keyboards, backing vocals
Conner Green - bass, backing vocals
Raymond Hearne - drums, backing vocals, tuba

Production and Design

Blacklake - art and design
Jerry Guidroz - mixing
Crystal Spotlight - Post-production, editing

Quotes from the Band

"The release of official live material is a project that is long overdue and we know our existing fans have been crying out for this for some time now. Whilst we have filmed and recorded many shows in the past we have always felt there were elements of our shows that could be improved 'visually' before we documented and immortalised this for the world to see and that the timing for a live release never felt right for us."

-Ross Jennings

"This is just our nature as creative people to be so extremely self-critical and constantly strive for perfection. It is largely due to the will of the people that the idea of this project became a reality. Both the band and the label were inundated with emails requesting a live release in some shape or form, and it was actually rather flattering, so giving the people what they wanted just felt like the right thing to do."

-Haken

Trivia

At 2 hours and 56 minutes, the L-1VE DVD is the longest Haken release.
The albums contains tracks from every album released to that point, except Aquarius.
The typeface used in the band's logo is called "Bauhaus Heavy-Bold".