Figure Number Five

Figure Number Five is the fifth full-length album released by the Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. On this release, the band introduces more alternative metal influences into their melodic death metal style.

A few different editions of this album existed upon release. The normal release with eleven tracks, as well as a limited edition release with a second CD of their 1997 demo. The limited vinyl version of the album features two discs - this album and Natural Born Chaos, black and the other a white-colored vinyl. The Japanese version of the album includes one bonus track, entitled "Bursting Out."

This album marked keyboardist Sven Karlsson's first attempts at songwriting for the band. While it is not necessarily interconnected with the keyboardist songwriting, this album features more use of the keyboard and lighter melodies. The album is considered a more commercial sound by most fans of Swedish death metal, but it arguably gives the music a broader appeal. However, vocalist Björn Strid has said the album has good melodies but lacks in intensity and could've been better composed; many fans and critics considered the album "rushed".^[2]

Music videos were made for the songs "Rejection Role" and "Light the Torch." In Flames appeared in the "Rejection Role" video, which featured the two bands being seemingly hostile towards each other (early in the video, a member of In Flames can be seen holding up a sign that says "Sellout" as the band drives by Soilwork). On the In Flames video of "Trigger" Soilwork appeared and were made interchangeably as a joke to the fans that either band had any indifferences with each other. This was the last album to feature Henry Ranta on drums.

1 Track listing
- 1.1 Charts
2 Personnel
- 2.1 Band members
- 2.2 Guest musicians
3 Release history
4 References

Track listing

All Lyrics By Strid.

CD 1 and regular version - Figure Number Five
No.	Title	Music	Length
1.	"Rejection Role"	Wichers	3:35
2.	"Overload"	Karlsson	3:44
3.	"Figure Number Five"	Wichers	3:12
4.	"Strangler"	Wichers	3:48
5.	"Light the Torch"	Karlsson	3:41
6.	"Departure Plan"	Karlsson	4:24
7.	"Cranking the Sirens"	Karlsson, Sten	3:26
8.	"Brickwalker"	Karlsson	3:45
9.	"The Mindmaker"	Wichers	3:32
10.	"Distortion Sleep"	Karlsson	3:46
11.	"Downfall 24"	Wichers	3:55
12.	"Bursting Out" (Japan bonus track)		3:33

CD 2 exclusively for the limited edition - Demo 1997
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Bound to Illusions"	2:49
2.	"My Need"	2:55
3.	"In a Close Encounter"	3:02
4.	"Skin after Skin"	3:23
5.	"Wake Up Call"	3:45
6.	"Steel Bath Suicide"	2:56

Charts

Chart (2003)	Peak position	Certification	Sales/ shipments^[3]
German Albums Chart ^[4]	57

Personnel

Band members

Björn "Speed" Strid − Vocals
Peter Wichers − Guitars
Ola Frenning − Guitars
Ola Flink − Bass guitar
Sven Karlsson − Keyboards
Henry Ranta − Drums

Guest musicians

Jens Broman − Guest vocals on "Figure Number Five"
Richard Larsson − Tambourine on "Brickwalker"
Bryan Kaschak - Guitar on "Cranking the Sirens"

Release history

Country	Date
Europe	22 April 2003
Canada	5 May 2003
United States	5 May 2003

References

^ Allmusic review
^ SOILWORK | Interviews | Rockdetector
^ Certification award levels IFPI. Retrieved August, 2009.
^ http://musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/artist/Soilwork/longplay

Soilwork

Björn "Speed" Strid · Peter Wichers · Sylvain Coudret · Sven Karlsson · Ola Flink · Dirk Verbeuren Daniel Antonsson · Henry Ranta · Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg · Ludvig Svartz · Jimmy Persson · Ola Frenning

Studio albums	Steelbath Suicide · The Chainheart Machine · A Predator's Portrait · Natural Born Chaos · Figure Number Five · Stabbing the Drama · Sworn to a Great Divide · The Panic Broadcast

Demos and EPs	In Dreams We Fall into the Eternal Lake · The Early Chapters

Compilation albums	The Sledgehammer Files: The Best of Soilwork 1998 - 2008