Swedish Doom Masters Vokonis Sign to Ripple Music, World-Wide Release of New Album, The Sunken Djinn
Ripple Music is thrilled to announce the signing of Vokonis
to a world-wide release for the upcoming album, "The Sunken
Djinn". Fans of the band can expect
a deluxe reissue of their last epic of doom, "Olde One Ascending" to
follow.
Already making huge waves in the heavy and doom scenes,
Vokonis turned heads with the release of their "Olde One Ascending"
album, mixing stellar musicianship with pulverizingly heavy riffs to create a
sound unlike any other in the doom world.
Heavy but progressive, viscous yet melodic. The album caught the ears of the producers of
the Planet of Doom film who quickly enlisted Vokonis to write an exclusive
track for the next film in the animated anthology.
Meanwhile, talks had already begun with Ripple Music, the
California-based purveyor of heavy, doom, stoner and psych. The chemistry between band and label was
instantaneous and in less than a week Vokonis were welcomed into the Ripple
family of heavy rockers, alongside such bands as Mothership, Wo Fat, Roadsaw,
Devil to Pay and more.
The Vokonis story dates back to October 2015, when three
fuzzers with a strong sense of D.I.Y attitude, Simon, Jonte and Emil broke from
their prior band, Creedsmen Arise, to focus on a new direction. Hailing from
the Swedish city of rain, they were held indoors and practiced, played and
cried tears of fuzz days on end. Eventually these hours of fuzz turned into
songs that became their first album "Olde One Ascending", which would
receive critical acclaim from all corners of the world.
"Through all of this, Vokonis reinforces their argument
of what “heavy,” as a sonic concept, is all about, and they bring a sense of
freshness and purity of intent to back them up that makes it difficult to find
a counterpoint. Maybe it is time everybody just riffed out." -- The Obelisk
Now they set their sights forward and team up with Ripple
Music to deliver their sophomore album, "The Sunken Djinn" for a
summer release in 2017." More
madness is sure to follow
Ripple Music is widely regarded as one of the world's
leading purveyors of the Heavy ; stoner, doom, heavy rock, and heavy
psych. Based in California, all Ripple releases can be found
world-wide at fine retailers, the Ripple Webstore and Ripple Bandcamp.
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