"Fauna" is the upcoming seventh album of the progressive metal band, Haken. The album follows the 2020 release "Virus" and an early single titled "Nightingale", which meant to serve as an reintroduction of original keyboardist, Pete Jones, who rejoined the band following the departure of Diego Tejeida.
Release date: 2023-03-03
I can’t fathom how someone goes through all that trouble to leak the album, and then exports the whole thing at 256kbps.
Sometimes promo versions of albums are given at lower bitrates. For a while I was reviewing albums from Inside Out Music (Haken’s label) and almost all the promos were 192kbps mp3.
So it’s likely not a case of someone doing a poor rip and leaking that, it’s someone leaking a promo copy, which was only provided at that bitrate.