Country: Multinational
Genre(s): Progressive Metal
Label: Silver Lining Music
Format: CD, digital, vinyl
Release date: January 29, 2021
Tracklist
1. Lumerian
2. Deceive
3. Monarch
4. Illusion
5. Antagonist
6. Modesty
7. Dissident
8. Fortune
Line-up
Joel Ekelöf - vocals
Martin Lopez (Opeth) - drums, percussion
Oleksii “Zlatoyar” Kobel - bass
Lars Åhlund - keyboards, guitar
Cody Ford - lead guitar
Lotus is an album defined by its contrasts. On the one hand, the record has a metal core. The riffing is massive, with an overdriven guitar tone that strongly differentiates it from Lykaia, while drums and bass drive the songs forward. These moments can be straightforward Soen tracks like “Opponent,” but there are moments like a hat-tip to death metal riffing in “Rival” or a proggy ‘awkward headbanging moment’ in “Covenant” that mark Soen as a band with a metal heart. ...Read the full review at angrymetalguy.com
Lotus is also a haunting, fragile album. The album’s softer tracks are no less intense than the heavy material and evoke the work of Pink Floyd (“Lotus”) or Steven Wilson (doing Pink Floyd [“River”]).
Well, Tellurian is a nine songs long record and it’s meant to pick up from where Cognitive left us but also to refine Soen’s sound each step of the way.
We are exposed to a lot of South American musical influences and to the prowess of each band member as they reunite under unbelievable harmonic and cohesive colors, and although we still long to hearing DiGiorgio’s undeniable artistic slap and finger-plucked fretless bass, Stefan Stenberg, his replacer, fills up DiGiorgio’s shoes in a more than decent manner.