art-metal

Two years after the debut “Cognitive”, Soen pick up from where they left off, but with a different music perspective this time. First of all, the bassist Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Sadus, Testament, Autopsy, Control Denied, Futures End etc.) is no longer part of the band and he was replaced by Stefan Stenberg.
 

Leviathan make their second studio attempt after their reformation and release of a live album as well in 2010, since their disbanding back before the turn of the millennium. Ever since their “re-formation” the band still continuing with their last known “line-up” has pretty much maintained their quite artistic and unique style, well known for its intricate and unusual choices of orchestration that tend to make them sound rather thin and not very metal but more akin to prog rock, yet they are also too heavy to be called that so I guess they’re stuck in the prog middle... or mean!
 

Although Soen took its first shape back in 2005 by the drummer Martin Lopez (ex-Opeth, ex-Amon Amarth) and the guitarist Kim Platbarzdis… it was 5 years later, in 2010, with the arrival of the vocalist Joel Ekelof that the band became active again. Meanwhile, the bassist Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Sadus, Testament, Autopsy, Control Denied, Futures End etc.) joined the band… making the line-up even more impressive.