More Haken...this time 'The Mind's Eye'.
I wish these guys would get to the point more often. This is becoming a sort of bugbear of mine, Communic has this problem too. A lot of these songs are really only about 30% metal, if that, and it gets tiring. I suspect these bands think acoustic passages sound good, but they almost never do. They either have to have good lyrics (Black Harvest), pleasant vocals and ambiance (Threshold) or nice melodies (Equilibrium, Kamelot, Agalloch, Forest Stream) to make them work, but this is almost never the case.