Sworn to a Great Divide

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Sworn to a Great Divide
Sworn to a Great Divide cover
Studio album by Soilwork
Released Flag of Europe October 19, 2007
Flag of the United States October 23, 2007
Recorded March 3, 2007 - June 26, 2007 at Not Quite Studios, Helsingborg, Sweden (except vocals)
Genre Melodic death metal
Alternative metal
Length 42:03
Label Nuclear Blast
Producer Ola Frenning, Peter Wildoer, Devin Townsend
Professional reviews
Soilwork chronology
Stabbing the Drama
(2005)		 Sworn to a Great Divide
(2007)

Sworn to a Great Divide is the seventh studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. The album was released on October 19, 2007 for Europe and on October 23, 2007 for the US, both through Nuclear Blast. Everything aside from vocals were recorded at Not Quite Studios in Helsingborg. This is the first album to include Daniel Antonsson on guitar who replaced founding member Peter Wichers who left the band in late 2005. This is also the last album to feature long-time guitarist Ola Frenning who left Soilwork in February 2008.

Sworn to a Great Divide is Soilwork's biggest commercial success, as it has sold about 5,000 copies in its first week of release just in the U.S., charting at slot 148[citation needed], and also reach slot 2 on the heatseeker charts. The album in its entirety was put on Soilwork's MySpace on October 10, 2007.

The first single from the album is "Exile" and was released on October 3, 2007. A music video was made for the accompanying single and was shot in Gothenburg.[1] The song was made available to download for use in Guitar Hero II on Xbox 360 on October 15, 2007.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Sworn to a Great Divide" − 3:33
  2. "Exile" − 3:49
  3. "Breeding Thorns" − 3:55
  4. "Your Beloved Scapegoat" − 3:58
  5. "The Pittsburgh Syndrome" − 2:46
  6. "I, Vermin" − 3:38
  7. "Light Discovering Darkness" − 3:50
  8. "As the Sleeper Awakes" − 4:18
  9. "Silent Bullet" − 3:26
  10. "Sick Heart River" − 4:12
  11. "20 More Miles" − 4:38
  12. "Martyr" − 4:17 (Limited edition, Limited Mail Order Edition, and Japan bonus track)
  13. "Sovereign" − 4:26 (Limited Mail Order Edition & Japan bonus track)
  14. "Overclocked" - 3:41(Limited Mail Order Edition)

[edit] Limited & Mailorder Edition bonus DVD track listing

Live Concert:

  1. "Follow the Hollow"
  2. "Rejection Role"
  3. "One with the Flies"
  4. "Bastard Chain"
  5. "Nerve"
  6. "Stalemate"
  7. "Millionflame"
  8. "As We Speak"
  • Making of and More

[edit] Limited Mailorder Edition

An exclusive Nuclear Blast Online Shop mailorder edition of the album, is limited to only 500 copies and comes in a 7" gatefold-style package. The package contains the entire album plus a bonus DVD with a live show, plus footage from the studio and more. Also included in the package is a 3" mini-CD with two bonus tracks not found on the standard version of the album.

[edit] Mailorder Edition bonus CD track listing

  1. "Sovereign"
  2. "Overclocked"

[edit] Credits

[edit] References

  1. ^ Sworn to a Great Video. Soilwork.org. Retrieved on 2007-08-04.
Soilwork
Björn "Speed" Strid | Ola Frenning | Daniel Antonsson | Sven Karlsson | Ola Flink | Dirk Verbeuren
Former members
Henry Ranta | Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg | Ludvig Svartz | Jimmy Persson
Discography
Albums Steelbath Suicide | The Chainheart Machine | A Predator's Portrait | Natural Born Chaos | Figure Number Five | Stabbing the Drama | Sworn to a Great Divide
Demos/EPs
In Dreams We Fall into the Eternal Lake | The Early Chapters
Singles
"As We Speak" | "Black Star Deceiver" | "Light the Torch" | "Rejection Role" | "Stabbing the Drama" | "Nerve" | "Exile"
Languages