SOEN - 'LOTUS' album and tour - Interview with Martin Lopez and Joel Ekelöf by Andy Rawll

Описание: Swedish-based progressive metal collective SOEN return in 2019 with a 22 date European tour in March and their 4th album ‘Lotus’ to be released on 1st February via Silver Lining Music. This follows the critically acclaimed 2017 album ‘Lykaia’ and is the bands most accomplished release to date, with a compelling collection of songs, with David Castillo's production delivering a dynamic, cohesive and rich experience.

Founder members, Joel Ekelöf (vocals) and Martin Lopez (drums) spoke to Andy Rawll from MetalTalk.rocks about the evolution of this new release as well as the dark and contrasting themes underpinning the music, as well as the impact of new guitarist Cody Ford, details of their forthcoming tour and the impact of their controversial latest video:
'Martyrs':    • Soen - Martyrs (Official Video)  

Produced by David Castillo and Iñaki Marconi at Ghostward Studios and Studio 6 between July and October 2018, the album marks the first recorded Soen work of new Canadian-born guitarist Cody Ford, whilst the centre-point of the album remains those trademark, snap-heavy, progressive Soen riffs. Songs such as “Rival”, “Covenant” and “Martyrs” are dissertations on modern societies, fraught with poetic, finitely designed confusion and chaos, yet as the name Lotus suggests, there is still strength, beauty and purity to be extracted from what at times seems like an endless cycle of human regression.

“The world right now is undeniably a very strange, tense place,” says Lopez, “I think the songs clearly reflect that, but they also reflect that we must now be stronger than ever in challenging confronting and dealing with the pandemonium life throws at us all.”

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TOUR DATES
12/3/2019 John B – Oslo, Norway
13/3/2019 Stengade – Copenhagen, Denmark
14/3/2019 Logo – Hamburg, Germany
15/3/2019 Roadrunner – Berlin, Germany
16/3/2019 Colos Saal – Aschaffenburg, Germany
19/3/2019 Backstage Werk – Munich, Germany
20/3/2019 Kultopia – Hagen, Germany
21/3/2019 Helios – Cologne, Germany
22/3/2019 De Effenaar Prognois Festival– Eindhoven, Netherlands
23/3/2019 Sugarfactory, Amsterdam – Netherlands
25/3/2019 O2 Academy Islington – London, UK
27/3/2019 L’amperage – Grenoble, France
28/3/2019 Salamandra – Barcelona, Spain
29/3/2019 Caracol – Madrid, Spain
30/3/2019 Hard Club – Porto, Portugal
31/3/2019 RCA – Lisbon, Portugal
02/4/2019 Backstage – Paris, France
03/4/2019 Z7 – Pratteln, Switzerland
04/4/2019 Legend Club – Milano, Italy
05/4/2019 Orion Ciampino – Roma, Italy
06/4/2019 Sonic Room Fabriano – Ancona, Italy