Notice: Function _load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly. Translation loading for the media-library-assistant domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/functions.php:6114) in /customers/8/6/5/powerofmetal.dk/httpd.www/newsite/wp-includes/rest-api/class-wp-rest-server.php on line 1893 {"id":16023,"date":"2017-02-16T13:10:13","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T12:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/powerofmetal.dk\/?p=16023"},"modified":"2017-05-03T13:48:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T11:48:10","slug":"soen-lykaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/soen-lykaia","title":{"rendered":"Soen – Lykaia"},"content":{"rendered":"

With some bands, or music, you have a connection from the start. Whether it be the style, the band has a member, or members, of a favorite band, or it just hits you at the right place and right time. The connection to music is one that is also not easily, if ever, broken because of its connection to emotion. For me, one of those bands is <\/span>Soen<\/b>. \u00a0I can go through the reasons I just listed and check off every one. My first connection is Martin Lopez. He was the primary reason for me picking up Soen\u2019s first album Cognitive<\/em>. My second is style, which I \u00a0should also attribute to Lopez, as he and vocalist Joel Ekel\u00f6f are definitely the driving factors in Soen\u2019s sound. Lastly would be timing. Lopez\u2019s former band had recently released their latest album, and had taken a turn with their sound that I was uncomfortable with. Soen brought me back to many of the things that made me originally fall in love with Opeth. Earlier this month Soen released their third album, <\/span>Lykaia<\/span><\/i>, through UDR Music. Again, I am connected from the start. <\/span><\/p>\n

Soen has been bashed from the beginning for wearing their influences on their sleeve. This was never my concern, as those influences were some of the reasons I was drawn to them. What many did not notice, by dismissing them for this reason, was that Soen was slowly interweaving those influences into their own particular sound. The two opening tracks of <\/span>Lykaia <\/span><\/i>are perfect examples of this. \u2018Sectarian\u2019 and \u2018Orison\u2019 revisit some previous rhythms, but the familiarity of them just makes it that much easier to get into the new album. Speaking of influences, one that Soen has previously only lightly touched on is Pink Floyd. With Lykaia\u00a0<\/em>I feel they have brought it much more prominently into the fold. \u2018Lucidity\u2019 is the first example of this. Between guitarist Marcus Jidell\u2019s Gilmouresque licks and Lars \u00c5hlund\u2019s Hammond organ, the Floydian feel is unmistakable. It\u2019s also heavy in closer \u2018Paragon.\u2019 Jindell\u2019s guitar solo is so moving you want to scream the notes along with his playing as it reaches its peak. This brings to mind one thing that is lost on many bands these days, dynamics. I\u2019m not talking about timing the breakdown just right, I mean actual crescendos and decrescendos. The peaks and valleys of Soen\u2019s tunes can be so high and so low from within or from track to track. Holding it all together is the unshakable backbeat of Lopez\u2019s drumming. It\u2019s like an airport escalated walkway; you can ride, walk, or run, but the underlying movement never changes. Combine this with Stefan Stenberg\u2019s stellar bass playing, which is much warmer and cleaner thanks to retro recording techniques (analog?!?) that were used on <\/span>Lykaia<\/span><\/i>, and you\u2019ve got the best sounding album Soen has released so far.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soen is a band with its own identity and <\/span>Lykaia <\/span><\/i>is another great example of how individual they are. For all the talk of other and former bands, I think Soen have proven to be more than a sum of their influences. So pick up a copy of <\/span>Lykaia<\/span><\/i>, not because you\u2019re a fan of Tool, or Opeth, or Pink Floyd, but because you want to hear probably one of the best records you\u2019ll hear this year.<\/span><\/p>\n

<\/iframe><\/p>\nSongs<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Sectarian<\/li>\n<li>Orison<\/li>\n<li>Lucidity<\/li>\n<li>Opal<\/li>\n<li>Jinn<\/li>\n<li>Sister<\/li>\n<li>Stray<\/li>\n<li>Paragon<\/li>\n<\/ol>\nPlaying Time:<\/strong> 49:22<\/p>\nRelease date:<\/strong> February 3, 2017<\/p>\nLabel:<\/strong> UDR Music<\/p>\nWebsite:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/soenmusic.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soenmusic.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">With some bands, or music, you have a connection from the start. Whether it be the style, the band has a member, or members, of a favorite band, or it just hits you at the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/reviews\/soen-lykaia\" title=\"Soen – Lykaia\">[Read \u00bb]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":16026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oct_exclude_from_cache":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1831,318,1832,24,1830,1819,1833],"class_list":{"0":"post-16023","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews","8":"tag-lykaia","9":"tag-opeth","10":"tag-pink-floyd","11":"tag-progressive-rock","12":"tag-soen","13":"tag-tool","14":"tag-udr-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16023"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20326,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16023\/revisions\/20326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.powerofmetal.dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}