Main Band

• Ross Jennings - Vocals
• Richard "Hen" Henshall
  Richard Henshall
  Richard "Hen" Henshall is a British Progressive metal multi-instrumentalist. He is best known for being the guitarist and keyboardist for the bands To-Mera and Haken...
  
   - Guitar
  Guitar
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   and Keyboards
• Charlie Griffiths - Guitar
• Thomas MacLean
  Thomas MacLean
  Thomas MacLean is an English born guitarist and bassist. He is best known for being the guitarist in the progressive metal/jazz fusion band To-Mera, and also for being the bassist for the progressive metal band Haken....
  
   - Bass Guitar
  Bass guitar
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• Ray Hearne - Drums, Tuba
  Tuba
  The tuba is the largest and lowest-pitched brass instrument. Sound is produced by vibrating or "buzzing" the lips into a large cupped mouthpiece. It is one of the most recent additions to the modern symphony orchestra, first appearing in the mid-19th century, when it largely replaced the...
  
  , Djembe
  Djembe
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• Diego Tejeida - Keyboards

Guest Musicians

• Craig Beattie - Trombone
  Trombone
  The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. Like all brass instruments, sound is produced when the player’s vibrating lips cause the air column inside the instrument to vibrate...
  
  
• Alex Benwell - Trumpet
  Trumpet
  The trumpet is the musical instrument with the highest register in the brass family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BCE. They are played by blowing air through closed lips, producing a "buzzing" sound which starts a standing wave vibration in the air...
  
  
• Pablo Inda Garcia - Clarinet
  Clarinet
  The clarinet is a musical instrument of woodwind type. The name derives from adding the suffix -et to the Italian word clarino , as the first clarinets had a strident tone similar to that of a trumpet. The instrument has an approximately cylindrical bore, and uses a single reed...
  
  
• Marged Hall - Harp
  Harp
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• Darren Moore - Trumpet
• Jon Roskilly - Trombone
• Dave Ruff - Flute
  Flute
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Reception

• Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic praised it as the strongest prog album yet to come out in the 2010s.
• The website Allmetal guide deemed Aquarius as very good.
• The website Prog Archives gave the album good reviews across the board; an average of all the reviews received were nearly 5 out of 5 stars.
• The Europe
  Europe
  Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
  
  an leg of the ProgPower
  ProgPower Europe
  ProgPower Europe is a progressive and power metal festival held annually in the Netherlands since 1999. The last edition, the 13th, was held at Sjiwa in Baarlo on September 30 – October 2, 2011...
  
   tour called Haken the most exciting sound to emerge from the modern progressive movement.
• The German
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   webzine Powermetal gave Aquarius a good review, saying the band had conquered the London rock scene in only a few concerts, as did Just for Kicks Music, another German webzine. JFKM gave "both thumbs up" to the album, as well as giving it 12 out of 15 points
• The webzine BlogCritics
  Blogcritics
  Blogcritics is a blog network and online magazine of news and opinion. The site—a self-proclaimed "sinister cabal of superior writers"—was founded in 2002 by Eric Olsen and Phillip Winn...
  
  .com Music gave Aquarius a rave review, saying its a joy to listen to from start to finish, and that there is jazz, blues, metal, and everything else tossed in for good measure.
• Classic Rock Magazine featured the song Eternal Rain as a free track of the day on April 15, 2010. The small review given was positive, calling it "interesting music from a young London band who combine jazz, metal and prog, delivered with excellent musicianship."
• The progressive rock
  Progressive rock
  Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...
  
   e-zine Sea of Tranquility's Pete Pardo praised the album, giving it 4.5 out of 5 stars, saying "Haken have arrived folks...make sure to check this one out."

External links

• The Point of No Return | The Official Site
• [ Allmusic Guide to Aquarius]
• ProgArchives Aquarius page
• The Haken Myspace page
• iTunes Aquarius page