from Hanover
General Information:
Oknos guides into a fantastic universe of sounds, tears down the border between reality and fiction and lets the listener forget it’s dreary daily life. A solid, punchy sound, filled with hard riffs is accompanied by an epic orchestra and does it’s part on the same amount as the expressive vocals and the powerful choirs.
Music Genre:
Female Fronted Symphonic Metal Lyrics: Stories about love, death, adventures and hope
Discography: Keeper of Time (Digitall Single)
Publication Date: Friday, the 7th of October 2016 (worldwide)
Label: FemMeropa
Cover:
Old World (14-Track-Album)
Publication Date: Digital version: Friday, the 13th January 2017 (worldwide) Digipack: Friday, the 5th of May 2017 (BeNeLux)
Label: FemMeropa
Cover:
Audio Samples: http://oknos.eu/#audio Videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0SIhE5MnhpQLCrybW1vsVg
Last and coming concerts:
11.02.2017 T DORP Olen, Belgium
18.03.2017 T DORP Olen, Belgium
07.07.2017 SubKultur Hanover, Germany
25.05.2018 Titans Club Lens, Belgium
26.05.2018 B52 Music Club Eernegem, Belgium
09.03.2019 Epic Metal Night Friedberg, Germany
04.05.2019 Elferclub Frankfurt, Germany
28.09.2019 Melodic Metal Night Hanover, Germany
Booking: [email protected]
Biography:
Inspired by great Symphonic Metal Bands like Nightwish and Delain, music student Johannes Erdmann decided one day to follow suit and founded a band. With Benjamin Offeney playing guitar, Arne Kinast as bass guitar player and Sebastian Brunn at the drums he soon found like-minded musicians. A short time after, singer Anna-Kristina Linnemann joined them, and the story could begin. In summer 2015, in the middle of the recording of the first album, Philipp Schräder joined the band and supported them at the keys.
Founded in 2013, the members of Oknos soon started writing their own songs and recording them, so that they could play their first small gigs in 2014. From winter 2014 until winter 2015 the recording of the album “Old World” took place. After mixing and mastering of “Old World” at Private Universe in Wolfsburg, the album was released by the label FemMeropa.
In their songs Oknos tell stories about love, adventure, death and hope. “Old World“ is a concept album with the central topic of a tragic love story and the philosophic question of what would be possible, if you could change the past – would there be the chance to make things right or would all end in tears again?
Since September 2018 Oknos and their former singer Anna are going seperate ways. Shortly after, the new singer Johanna was found, who supports the band with her expressive and powerful voice since then.
At the moment Oknos are focussed on working on their next album, which will not be a concept album again and will deal with darker topics than “Old World“ did. There are already some gigs planned for 2019 and for sure there will follow more.
Band Members: Vocals: Rhythm Guitar / Vocals: Lead Guitar / Vocals: Johanna Bensmann Johannes Erdmann Benjamin Offeney
Bass Guitar: Keys / Whistles: Drums: Arne Kinast Philipp Schräder Sebastian Brunn
Contact: E-Mail: [email protected] [email protected]
Phone: +49 174 1754262
Homepage: http://oknos.eu
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0SIhE5MnhpQLCrybW1vsVg
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OknosBand/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Oknos_Official
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/oknos_band/
BackstagePro: https://www.backstagepro.de/oknos
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