Soen Credit: SoenMusic/Facebook
It’s been an unforgettable year for Swedish metal supergroup Soen, which is headed to Crowbar in Ybor City on Saturday, Dec. 3.

Featuring ex-members of Opeth, Willowtree, and The Jolly-Boat Pirates, the quintet not only released a concert film last month, but also had The Undiscovered Lotus—loaded with unreleased studio and live tracks—release for Record Store Day. The band’s Tampa debut is also part of what appears to be Soen’s first full-fledged U.S. tour ever.

This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2022.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...