Vokonis Announce Third Album in the Works & March European Tour Dates

vokonis (photo Jennika Photography)

Because that’s precisely the kind of jerk I am, when Vokonis guitarist/vocalist Simona Ohlsson dropped me a line about announcing the Swedish trio’s upcoming European tour dates this March, there was just about no way I was letting him off the hook without getting an update on the doings for their next album. Call it a hunch, but I figured that given the quick turnaround between their 2016 debut, Olde One Ascending (review here), and last year’s oh-shit-it-turns-out-we’re-way-more-progressive-than-anyone-thought follow-up, The Sunken Djinn (review here) — which by my estimation stood among the very best of 2017 full-lengths — there was a decent chance some riffs were already in the hopper.

And so they are. The band — Ohlsson, bassist Jonte Johansson and drummer Emil Larson — will enter Studio Underjord in Norrköping next month to start pre-production on their third album with plans toward recording later this year. Might be 2019 before the record gets out, but hell, at least we know it’s in progress. Ohlsson says they might even break out a new song or two on the tour. I have the feeling by the time they get through the pre-production process in February, they’ll be too stoked on the new material to not do so. Call it another hunch.

Comment from the band and tour dates follow:

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VOKONIS – European Tour March 2018

It’s going to be a lot of fun to see a lot of new places and meet new people. Hopefully will get a chance to meet some of the people that have followed our journey over the internet for these past two years.

Sharing stages with a fellow Ripple Music band is also gonna be super exciting. That goes to show how much we’ve gotten from that partnership. It’s like a whole network of musicians just unlocked at the moment of that press release.

We are set for a pre-production at Studio Underjord for a third album in February. So we’re very active with writing now. Hopefully if everything works out we enter the studio for this new album in late 2018. Can give a better update on that later on.

We’re trying to expand on the progressive parts of our sound, which has proven challenging but equally rewarding. So we’ve dabbled a lot more with clean parts. And more vocals from Jonte (bass).

Other than that I can give a cryptic hint that two already recorded songs will surface on compilations this coming spring/summer.

Vokonis European tour:
15/3 Thursday – Plan B, Malmö, SWE
16/3 Friday – KB18, Copenhagen, Denmark
17/3 Saturday – Chemiefabrik, Dresden, GE
18/3 Sunday – Café ‘T Hert, Joure, NL
19/3 Monday – MS Stubnitz, GE
21/3 Wednesday – Kinky Star, Ghent, BE *
22/3 Thursday – Kids Rhythm n Blues, Antwerpen, BE *
23/3 Friday – Comma, Bruges, BE *
24/3 Saturday – Rock Cafe, Den Helder, NL
* with Fire Down Below

VOKONIS is:
Simona Ohlsson: Vocals, Guitar
Emil Larsson: Drums
Jonte Johansson: Bass, Backing vocals

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Vokonis, The Sunken Djinn (2017)

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