The summer is over and once again LEONIDEN have climbed over various festival and club stages, leaving hundreds of individuals entangled in the mosh pit
Their new album "Sophisticated Sad Songs" was released at the end of August and the quintet will embark on a European tour of the same name in the fall. And before this tour, one thing is certain: the tour will continue in February 2025! Anyone who has seen LEONIDEN live even once will remember them for a long time to come: surreally happy faces on and in front of the stage, broad sound backdrops, solidarity circle pits, somersaults, experimental synth contortions and circulating guitars. These special live moments have been at the heart of the band's DNA from the very beginning and have made LEONIDEN better, louder and better known from festival summer to festival summer. With the new album "Sophisticated Sad Songs", LEONIDEN transform collective discomfort into collective happiness in seconds - the Leoniden paradox. The songs of the Kiel-based five-piece around Lennart and Felix Eicke, Jakob Amr, Marike Winkelmann and Djamin Izadi always seem to be shrouded in a veil of euphoria, are danceable to the max and predestined for the biggest possible stages. In direct contrast, the same pieces almost always convey negative, world-wearied thoughts on a lyrical level, just waiting to be drowned in a collective dance frenzy.
