SOEN’s Joel Ekelöf had a chat with Metal Wani’s Julien Bigras ahead of the concert in Toronto, Canada. They discuss the first North American headlining tour, meet and greet with the fans, his top 3 favorite TOOL songs, how he [...]
Last week, Swedish progressive metal band Soen began their first-ever North American tour, promoting their most recent album Imperial. This band has been active for about 12 years now, so it’s quite surprising that it has taken them this long to [...]
Soen may have kept their North American fans waiting a long time to see them live, but this Imperial tour made it worth the wait. The show was top-notch, and the band sounded incredible all night, with tons of great individual performances. Coupled [...]
Before we begin, I should admit I’m something of a newcomer to Soens sound. I gave their first three albums a cursory listen, and they didn’t do much for me. It wasn’t until recently that Spotify began to shuffle in songs from their [...]
Swedish progressive metal band Soen have since shed away the Tool comparisons that they were met with on the first album, ‘Cognitive’ (2012), holding on to their own sweet spot among today’s finest progressive acts with the next pair of [...]
Soen’s new album, Lotus, will be unleashed on the 1st of February via Silver Lining Music and they will be on tour in Europe throughout March and April. Metal Wani’s Katia Filipovic talked to singer Joel Ekelof about their new offering. [...]
Soen is a relatively young band from Sweden with three albums to its name – Cognitive, Tellurian and Lykaia, which released this year. The first album particularly was called out by fans as sounding very similar to those of Tool in terms of riffing [...]
