{"id":16957,"date":"2025-11-12T07:35:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16957"},"modified":"2025-11-12T07:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T12:35:47","slug":"soen-unleash-new-video-single-mercenary-out-now-new-album-reliance-out-january-16-2026-via-silver-lining-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16957","title":{"rendered":"SOEN Unleash New Video\/Single \u201cMercenary\u201d Out Now; New Album \u2013 Reliance \u2013 Out January 16, 2026 Via Silver Lining Music"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SOEN<\/strong> unleash the crushing second single \u201cMercenary<\/strong>\u201d from forthcoming new studio album Reliance<\/em><\/strong>, set for release on January 16, 2026 via Silver Lining Music.  For pre-orders go to this location<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Reliance<\/em><\/strong>, their seventh studio album, the Swedish progressive metal powerhouse, spearheaded by Joel Ekel\u00f6f<\/strong> (vocals) and Martin Lopez<\/strong> (drums), continue to find incredible new pathways into the spatial areas between light and dark, loud and calm, heavy and soothing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HONESTY is what runs through the album\u2019s writing, where emotional gravity and raw power coexist without compromise. It\u2019s a duality that defines SOEN<\/strong>\u2019s sound \u2014 the willingness to confront darkness not for spectacle, but for truth. Nowhere is that balance more evident than on \u201cMercenary<\/strong>,\u201d a track that channels the weight of inherited violence and the personal cost of conviction with unflinching clarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“\u2018Mercenary\u2019 is about the violence we inherit, which then sees hatred seeping into lives–and life–which in turn shapes generations,<\/em>\u201d comments vocalist and frontman Joel Ekel\u00f6f<\/strong>.  “It also addresses betrayal, about how that can see us \u2018crowning vultures into kings<\/em>,\u201d furthers founding member and drummer Martin Lopez<\/strong>. “At its heart, \u2018Mercenary\u2019 speaks to the cost of belief,\u201d <\/em>Ekel\u00f6f<\/strong> adds before Lopez<\/strong> affirms that \u201cmusically, it carries the essence of SOEN \u2013 heavy yet melodic and built on power and precision<\/em>.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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