Johnsson noted that the next album, "Vovin", was practically a solo album as it used studio musicians instead of the ones from the "Theli" tour, besides Eriksson, who provided some guitar support. "Vovin" was recorded at Woodhouse Studios; it involved a real string orchestra for the first time, and a "hand picked opera choir" which included Austrian singer Martina Hornbacher, and British vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva. The album was released in 1998, and in two months, sales had reached 150,000 in Europe alone, doubling sales of "Theli".