Soilwork

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Soilwork
Background information
Origin	Helsingborg, Sweden
Genre(s)	Melodic death metal Swedecore
Years active	1996 - present
Label(s)	Listenable Records Century Media Nuclear Blast
Website	http://www.soilwork.org
Members
Björn "Speed" Strid Dirk Verbeuren Ola Flink Sven Karlsson Adreas Holma Ola Frenning
Former members
Daniel Antonsson Peter Wichers Henry Ranta Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg Ludvig Svartz Jimmy Persons

Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in late 1995, originally under the name of Inferior Breed. In 1996, they changed their name to Soilwork, to better fit their new sound. Their unique sound is a fusion of the classic Gothenburg metal sound with power-groove riffs of late 1970s, early 1980s British and European metal. Their more recent work has more singing and lighter melodies than their earlier work, as well as a more polished production that brings out the strength of the drums.

In 2005, the band began to gain minor commercial success in the United States. Stabbing the Drama reached #12 and #21 on the Billboard Heatseeker and Independent album charts, respectively. They played the 2005 Ozzfest, alongside fellow Gothenburg melodic death metal band, In Flames.

In late 2005, guitarist Peter Wichers left the band due to tour exhaustion and other personal issues. Peter will now do music production for other bands. Of all the line-up changes with Soilwork, this one comes as the biggest and most disappointing to Soilwork fans, as Peter Wichers was a very important member of the band and has a style of guitar-playing that many believe cannot be duplicated.

As of June 30th 2006 Soilwork was in search for a new guitarist, living in Sweden. Soilwork are currently using Adreas Holma (Ex - Hypocrisy) as a short term replacement. After their current 2006 U.S. tour they plan to choose one of the guitarists they've been touring with and start writing the follow up to Stabbing The Drama

1 Band members
- 1.1 Former band members
2 Discography
- 2.1 Demos/EPs
- 2.2 Singles
3 Trivia
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Band members

Björn "Speed" Strid - Vocals
Ola Frenning - Guitars
Sven Karlsson - Keyboards
Ola Flink - Bass
Dirk Verbeuren - Drums

[edit] Former band members

Adreas Holma - Guitars (Filled in on 2006 European tour)
Daniel Antonsson - Guitars (Filled in on 2006 European tour)
Peter Wichers - Guitars
Henry Ranta - Drums
Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg - Keyboards
Ludvig Svartz - Guitars
Jimmy Persons - Drums

[edit] Discography

Album Cover	Date of Release	Title	Label	Peak	Sales
	1998	Steelbath Suicide	Listenable Records, Century Media	-	-
	2000	The Chainheart Machine	Listenable Records, Century Media	-	-
	2001	A Predator's Portrait	Nuclear Blast	-	-
	2002	Natural Born Chaos	Nuclear Blast	-	-
	2003	Figure Number Five	Nuclear Blast	-	-
Image:Stabbingthedramacover.jpg	2005	Stabbing the Drama	Nuclear Blast	-	-

[edit] Demos/EPs

In Dreams We Fall Into The Eternal Lake (1997 demo)
The Early Chapters (2003 EP)

[edit] Singles

Like the Average Stalker (2001}
As We Speak (2002)
Light The Torch (2003)
Rejection Role (2003)
Stabbing The Drama (2005)
Nerve (2005)

[edit] Trivia

There are two movie quotes on The Chainheart Machine album. The first is "Your suffering will be lengendary even in hell" from Hellbound: Hellraiser 2 in the title track. The second is "So you wanna play rough. Say hello to my little friend" from Scarface in Bulletbeast.
Actor and singer, Will Smith is reportedly a huge fan of Soilwork^[1].
Their video for Rejection Role is a reverse of In Flames' video for Trigger. Both of which are filmed in the same location, and includes the performing band being heckled by the other. The two bands at one point in both videos confront each other for a fight on a set of steps. While the fight itself is not shown, the winner of the fight is assumed to be the performing band in each video. This is shown by one member of the other band having a black eye afterwards.
The name "Soilwork" is a play on the concept of working from the ground up.
Obviously the band's oldest member, guitarist Ola Frenning claims a few times on his online profile that his birthday is in "August 19??", or, if asking for his age, simply writes "too old for this shit."
The Light the Torch video is a non-commercial school project made for Soilwork. It was produced in Sweden over a span of four months by four students studying computer graphics. This video was aired on European MTV