Soilwork

Tuesday, 06 May 2008

Band members: Bjorn "Speed" Strid: Vocals,Daniel Antonsson: Guitars,Ola Flink: Bass,Sven Karlsson: Keyboards,Dirk Verbeuren: Drums

Band biography:

Soilwork was first formed in the end of 1995, but under the name Inferior Breed with the following line-up: Peter Wichers - rhythm guitar, Jimmy Persson - drums, Bjorn Strid - vocals, Mattias "Nizze" Nilsson - lead and rhythmguitar and Carl-Gustav Doos - bass.

This sound was mostly technical stuff in the vein of Machine Head and Pantera.

As the time went by we started to get more and more intrested in the melodies. By the fall of 1996, we decided to change the name to Soilwork to fit the new sound we had created. We did a demotape that was entitled "In Dreams we fall into the eternal lake", this demotape consited of 5 songs. One of them was just a philosofical break, but the other four had good potential. The Demotape was passed out to many record companies and we actually hooked up with Mike Amott from ARCH ENEMY. Mike worked at a local recordshop in Helsingborg, and as we one day came in to glance the CD's we thought that it would be a good idea to give him a copy of the tape, so we did! Mike liked the demo very much, so we asked him if he could pass it on to some labels, and he did.

During the break between the demo and the album we maneged to get a new bassplayer by the name Ola Flink. He was tall as hell and most certainly could rock! We got in touch with two labels, which were very interested in us. Things took it's turns and we decided to write with a promising label from France called LISTENABLE Records. Shortly after we wrote the deal, we went into the famous Studio Fredman to record our debut album " Steel Bath Suicide ".

After we did this album we had some differences in the band of which kind of music we would like to develope. We therefor had to change the line-up for the second album. ( Peter Wichers - lead and rhythm guitar, Henry Ranta - drums, Bjorn Strid - vocals, Ola Frenning - lead and rhythm Guitar and Ola Flink - bass)

We got a new guitarist named Ola Frenning, who actually is Peters Uncle! The Drummer moved down all the way from the Swedish capital city Stockholm to start rockin' with the "Soilers".

Band discography:

Steelbath Suicide

Tracks:

01. Entering The Angel Diabolique
02. Sadistic Lullabye
03. My Need
04. Skin After Skin
05. Wings Of Domain
06. Steelbath Suicide
07. In A Close Encounter
08. Centro De Predominio
09. Razorlives
10. Demon In Veins
11. The Aardvark Trail
12. Sadistic Lullabye [live] [re-issue bonus]
13. Disintigrated Skies [Japanese bonus]
14. Burn [Deep Purple cover] [Japanese bonus]

The Chainheart Machine

Tracks:

01. Chainheart Machine
02. Bulletbeast
03. Millionflame
04. Generation Speedkill
05. Neon Rebels
06. Possessing The Angels
07. Spirits Of The Future Sun
08. Machinegun Majesty
09. Room No. 99
10. ShadowChild [Japan bonus]

A Predator's Portrait

Tracks:

01. Bastard Chain
02. Like An Average Stalker
03. Needlefeast
04. Neurotica Rampage
05. The Analyst
06. Grand Failure Anthem
07. Structure Divine
08. Shadowchild
09. Final Fatal Force
10. A Predator's Portrait
11. Asylum Dance [Japanese and Korean bonus

Natural Born Chaos

Tracks:

01. Follow The Hollow
02. As We Speak
03. The Flameout
04. Natural Born Chaos
05. Mindfields
06. The Bringer
07. Black Star Deceiver
08. Mercury Shadow
09. No More Angels
10. Soilworker's Song Of The Damned

Figure Number Five

Tracks:

01. Rejection Role
02. Overload
03. Figure Number Five
04. Strangler
05. Light The Torch
06. Departure Plan
07. Cranking The Sirens
08. Brickwalker
09. The Mindmaker
10. Distortion Sleep
11. Downfall 24
12. Bursting Out [Japanese bonus]

[Limited Edition Bonus CD: Demo 1997]
01. Bound To Illusions
02. My Need
03. In A Close Encounter
04. Skin After Skin
05. Wake Up Call
06. Steel Bath Suicide

The Early Chapters

Tracks:

01. Burn [Deep Purple cover]
02. Disintegrated Skies
03. Egypt [Mercyful Fate cover]
04. Shadow Child [demo version]
05. Aardvark Trail [live]

Stabbing The Drama

Tracks:

01. Stabbing The Drama
02. One With The Flies
03. Weapon Of Vanity
04. The Crestfallen
05. Nerve
06. Stalemate
07. Distance
08. Observation Slave
09. Fate In Motion
10. Blind Eye Halo
11. If Possible
12. Wherever Thorns May Grow [Japanese bonus and Limited Digipack Edition US and Europe bonus]
13. Killed By Ignition [Japanese and Korean bonus]

Sworn To A Great Divide

Tracks:

01. Sworn To A Great Divide
02. Exile
03. Breeding Thorns
04. Your Beloved Scapegoat
05. The Pittsburgh Syndrome
06. I, Vermin
07. Light Discovering Darkness
08. As The Sleeper Awakes
09. Silent Bullet
10. Sick Heart River
11. 20 More Miles
12. Martyr [limited edition & Japanese bonus]
13. Sovereign [Japanese bonus]
14. Overclocked [limited mail-order edition bonus]

Band official website: www.soilwork.org

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