The Soul Exchange

The Soul Exchange is a band that mixes Classic Hard Rock with a contemporary Metal sound. They have taken influences from the 70’s Hard Rock scene and created their own unique style of Metal infused, guitar driven hard rock, with great attention to the melodies and grand vocal arrangements. The lyrics deals mostly with subjects from the darker side of life such as insanity and evil in various forms.

The seed that eventually became The Soul Exchange was sown when guitarist and songwriter Hans von Bell began writing songs for a solo album back in 2013. After the albums’ release in January 2015, Hans immediately started to work on new material for a follow up and realized he wanted to put together a proper band as the new material required a different sound and thus, The Soul Exchange was born. The band name came from a song off the 2015 solo album.

In 2016 the band found their formula and sound with the current line up consisting of Daniel John vocals & keyboards, Hans & Thomas von Bell guitars, Patrik "Patte" Ekelöf on bass, and Benny White drums. Although mostly unknown to the wide public, all band members have long careers in music behind them. The band released the critically and likewise publicly acclaimed debut album “Bloodbound” in March 2017 on the Mervilton Records label and the five Track EP “Vow Of Seth” in December 2017 on the Pride & Joy Music label.

In the fall of 2017, The Soul Exchange began working on their 2nd full length album titled “Edge Of Sanity” that was released on the Pride & Joy Music label on June 15th, 2018. The album is not a theme album per say, but lyrically all the songs have a common theme with lyrics that are metaphorical and treats the dark side of the human psyche. Musically the album is hard hitting and dark themed but not hard listening. Sonically ”Edge Of Eternity” is harder and darker than anything The Soul Exchange have produced in the past, but the trademark vocal arrangements and big choruses are still all over the place, and grander than ever before.

The band started to work on the follow up to “Edge Of Sanity” in 2019 and headed into the studio in August 2020. The production of the 3rd full length album titled “Memories Or Illusions” was completed, mixed and mastered in early 2021. The album is produced by Staffan Österlind and is a fully fledged concept album about a serial killer in the vein of e.g. Queensryche’s “Operation Mindcrime” and is by far the most ambitious undertaking by the band to date. Movie director Claudio Marino (Ghost, Behemoth, Tribulation, MCC) also did a short movie adoption of the album’s storyline (to be released in 2021). The first single “Oblivion” off the upcoming album was released on August 6th, 2021 on the Ninetone label. “Memories Or Illusions” is penned for release in the late fall of 2021.