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\n<\/a>\u201cIn coming together it will always sound like Soilwork, but there\u2019s always something, so for that it\u2019s really exciting for me. So I\u2019m grateful that I\u2019m still excited about creating music and having to make that same damn album over again to be able to stay above the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n

From Tour Release: Sweden\u2019s SOILWORK have long been regarded by many as pioneers of melodic death metal. Alongside fellow Swedish acts such as In Flames and Dark Tranquillity, the band\u2019s unique blend of melodic metal is a fusion of the classic Gothenburg Sound with power-groove riffs that were prominent in 70\u2019s and 80\u2019s British and European metal.<\/p>\n

SOILWORK have been working from the ground up developing and honing their sound for close to 20 years now. Their latest album, the just released and first double album in death metal history, \u2018The Living Infinite\u2019 features soaring melodies via the identifiable dual gruff\/clean vocals of Bjorn \u2018Speed\u2019 Strid, intricate guitar work and a supremely tight rhythm section that has became their signature sound. Often imitated but never duplicated.<\/p>\n

We chatted to \u2018Speed\u2019 about Soilwork\u2019s upcoming tour of Australia as well as double albums and the evolution and enjoyment of being in this band\u2026<\/p>\n

You’re heading back to Australia for the first time since 2010, have you got a set prepared for us or is this something you fine tune dependant on how you feel on the day?<\/strong>
\nWell we\u2019ve been discussing it during the festival season and I\u2019m not sure if we\u2019ve come to a conclusion as to what we\u2019re having for those shows, but I mean it\u2019s obviously a headline show, so I guess around one hour twenty minutes so we\u2019re trying to make it a pretty good mix and have every album almost represented in the set list. Also we do have a double album out, so it\u2019s going to be a little bit more focused on that one, plus there are twenty more songs, so it\u2019s been really hard. Hopefully we will reach a decision about two days before we come to Australia.<\/p>\n

With a little while to play it now, how has the new material been going down live?<\/strong>
\nI think it\u2019s been going down really, really good. I feel it\u2019s been a while since new sings or whatever have been sounding that good live. Even though it\u2019s really technical, the new album, at least in some parts, it\u2019s going over really well live, I think it\u2019s a very live oriented album.<\/p>\n

For someone such as myself that has never seen you live before, can you give us three words that sum up your live performance?<\/strong>
\nProbably chaos, melody, Flink\u2026 that\u2019s our bass player because he\u2019s a one man show. *laughs*<\/p>\n

Do you have a memory of a previous tour of Australia that stands out as the best?<\/strong>
\nOh I mean of course the first time was extra special, that was back in 203 now, was it ten years? And if I remember correctly that was the one with Anthrax and Killswitch and I guess Killswitch were opening up for us, maybe it was Anthrax that opened up, I can\u2019t remember. Obviously that was very special for the first time, I think we went there twice on the same album, that\u2019s probably why I\u2019m mixing it up, the first tour was with Anthrax and Killswitch or was it us doing a headline show with local openers? But it was really cool and I could never dream of coming to Australia to play, even when we started the band, coming to America was something that we never thought we could do, and Australia was almost too much, we were like \u2018What? Really?\u2019 and coming there and realising there are huge crowds for us was really cool and a great crowd at that, so intense, so amazing. But, I believe this is our fourth or fifth time, but it\u2019s special every time, it really is. Something that I\u2019m not looking forward to is the flight over there, it\u2019s pretty damn long, it\u2019s probably going to be like twenty five hours, so there\u2019s that, but when you\u2019re actually there it\u2019s such a good time.<\/p>\n

You released ‘The Living Infinite’ earlier this year now, I have to ask as it’s a double album which is kind of rare these days, what was the idea behind doing that?<\/strong>
\nWell I think we really needed a special challenge, and after everything that happened and Peter not being sure if he wanted to be in the band or he wanted to tour at all, and we ended up not doing much touring for \u2018The Panic Broadcast\u2019, we did come to Australia so that\u2019s a good thing *laughs* but we felt that we needed to do something bigger, something more of a project and something more progressive. I think each and every member of the band are pretty high on the fact that they could maybe break the boundaries a little bit and introduce some of those personal stuff in there as well, that\u2019s really what happened, it became a band effort and turned out to be a very diverse album and I think that\u2019s exactly what we needed and wanted to make. A double album with twenty songs and to stay interesting, so I think it really shows the strength of the band that there\u2019s so many great songwriters in the band<\/p>\n

Did you go in with a concept in mind or did it just evolve into what it has become when you started making it?<\/strong>
\nOh well I did have a concept, when I presented the idea of making a double album to the band during the festival season in 2011, I did have a little idea and I also had the title \u2018The Living Infinite\u2019 and *laughs* it sounds really pretentious but I wanted to make the existential, kind of topic we haven\u2019t really touched before, and to me I just found the title, infinite, and I felt it was a description of the ocean and I thought that was really cool and descriptive because when I look out over the ocean I connect that to existential questions and I was raised by the ocean, I lived by the ocean, so I feel it was a natural way for me to look out and start thinking, and something I feel like I\u2019ve been spending a little too much time thinking about existential questions, I need to reach some level of acceptance. So that\u2019s kind of the lyrical theme on the album and the connection to the title.<\/p>\n

Did you find it in some way more challenging taking on this much compared to a standard release?<\/strong>
\nI thought it was going to be a lot worse, but it was kind of smooth\u2026 we spent two months in the studio and that is sort of what we normally do, but this time around we could work in different studio rooms at the same time, right? We were also hanging out in the studio all together and cooking together and building these from scratch and I felt it was going pretty smooth, and plus I started singing a lot earlier in the process this time around because in the past it\u2019s always been \u2018ok, everything else is done, you\u2019ve got two weeks to do vocals and\u2026 go\u2019 *laughs* and it\u2019s really stressful, that could not work with a double album, so as soon as it was guitars even done for one song, I started singing in a different room in the same building. So I guess that was really nice to be able to focus on one song a day instead of oh my god, I need to do three songs today to be on schedule, that\u2019s a lot of stress.<\/p>\n

How has the dynamic been within the band since Peter’s departure and with David now a permanent member?<\/strong>
\nWell we\u2019ve known David really well as he\u2019s toured with us before, first time he toured with us was in 2006, the North American tour and he did one more after that as well, he\u2019s also been touring Japan with us I think, so it was a pretty natural progression for us, and he came into the band, we\u2019re really hanging out again, we\u2019re drinking together which has been a while since we really partying together, usually we\u2019re like for a while there it was people sitting there doing their own thing, or maybe two and two or whatever, that\u2019s usually how it goes in a band. Now there\u2019s a better vibe, because Peter kind of felt depressed and couldn\u2019t handle the touring and seemed really stressed and that really affects everybody in the band and he made the right decision and he\u2019s probably way better off these day, he has a stable job and can be home with the family so he feels a lot better and I think it\u2019s also better for the band because David really wants to tour and he\u2019s really passionate about te music as well, so it\u2019s a win win situation.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s almost like a new energy has been injected into the band\u2026<\/strong>
\nYeah for sure.<\/p>\n

In the fifteen years since the release of ‘Steelbath Suicide’ what do you feel has been the biggest evolution in the Soilwork of today?<\/strong>
\nWell I mean we\u2019ve become better songwriters, and I think in the beginning it was done with primal aggression, even though we did it in a pretty unique way, maybe not the first album which sounded like your typical Gothenburg sounding thing, but the second one \u2018The Chainheart Machine\u2019 I think you could already back then tell there was something pretty special going on, because we were influenced by Devin Townsend\u2019s music as well, especially the album \u2018City\u2019 by Strapping Young Lad and I think that was something that was there and we were going to take it to the Swedish Gothenburg style of metal to a new level and I think we really brought that with a \u2018Natural Born Chaos\u2019 that was something a little ahead of its time, you know. That\u2019s one of the few things that I regret that we didn\u2019t tour much for that album, because we didn\u2019t realised how much of an impact it would have later on to especially the American Metalcore bands, but that was definitely a milestone and I think this new one definitely brings us into a new era, to use an old clich\u00e9 *laughs* it\u2019s something really special about this one and we\u2019re touching something new here.<\/p>\n

At eighteen or so years as a part of the band now, has there been a career highlight you can share with us?<\/strong>
\nWell there\u2019s a few, it\u2019s really hard to point out just one thing\u2026 coming to Japan for the first time, coming to Australia are definitely milestones\u2026 obviously the day, and I was working as a teacher before, the day that I could walk into the reception and school and talk to the principal and say I\u2019m going to do the band full time and I don\u2019t have to work anymore, I\u2019m sorry but that\u2019s it *laughs* that was a pretty big day. I\u2019ve been able to live off the music ever since then and it\u2019s pretty cool to be able to live off your biggest interest you know, and there are some sacrifices to be made as well when your hobby becomes your job, but still I\u2019m really grateful for that day when I could go in and say that it\u2019s music full time now, 100%.<\/p>\n

On the other side of that question, what is it that you still enjoy about being in Soilwork?<\/strong>
\nI think the playfulness that is there when we create music, it\u2019s really open and really objectives and there\u2019s no like set recipes of exactly how it\u2019s going to sound, we never really talk about that, and it makes it really exciting, you never know what\u2019s going to happen musically, even though we always have a mutual vision, it\u2019s never something we talk about. In coming together it will always sound like Soilwork, but there\u2019s always something, so for that it\u2019s really exciting for me. So I\u2019m grateful that I\u2019m still excited about creating music and having to make that same damn album over again to be able to stay above the surface.<\/p>\n

It sounds like you\u2019re pretty inspired at the moment, are you constantly writing?<\/strong>
\nYeah, well we are planning on maybe creating something new, what it\u2019s going to be we don\u2019t know, we\u2019re still pretty focused on the album, it\u2019s only been out for a couple of months, but I think we got really inspired from that recording, especially since it was so much fun, I think people are curious to see where the new album is going and when it\u2019s going to happen, so we\u2019re thinking of some ideas now that are pretty interesting, but we\u2019ll see what happens. For now it\u2019s pretty much all about the album.<\/p>\n

You fans are very passionate and you do meet and greets with them and the likes, so what is it about the fans down here compared to those around the world?<\/strong>
\nI think the Australian crowd, and I\u2019ve said this before, if you take a Japanese crowd and a European crowd and an American crowd and you tape them together you get an Australian crowd, because it\u2019s like the loudest Japanese fans and the rowdiest American fans and including the mosh pit and circle pits, it\u2019s so violent, and the European crowd doing the \u2018Hey Hey Hey\u2019 which you couldn\u2019t really find in America before, it was more European with the chanting and stuff, so it\u2019s everything you want, it\u2019s prefect. *laughs*<\/p>\n

Besides Australia, what does the rest of the year have in store for Soilwork?<\/strong>
\nWell we are going to visit China for the first time directly after the Australian tour, we\u2019re doing five shows in China, that\u2019s pretty much what\u2019s on the table and also a European headline tour in November. We\u2019re also working on South America and heading to Mexico city for the first time in September.<\/p>\n

Thanks for your time and we\u2019ll see you in October\u2026<\/strong>
\nSounds great<\/p>\n

Essential information<\/strong><\/h2>\n

From: <\/strong>Helsingborg, Sweden<\/p>\n

Band members:<\/strong>\u00a0 Bjorn “Speed” Strid \u2013 vocals, Sven Karlsson – keyboards\/samples, Sylvain Coudret: guitar, David Andersson: guitar, Dirk Verbeuren \u2013 drums, Ola Flink – bass<\/p>\n

Recent Release:<\/strong> The Living Infinite (Nuclear Blast)<\/p>\n

Website:<\/strong> \u00a0http:\/\/www.soilwork.org
\n<\/a><\/p>\n

Catch Soilwork on tour in Australia this October<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wed 2nd<\/sup>-The Hi Fi, Brisbane
\nThu 3rd<\/sup>– Manning Bar, Sydney
\nFri 4th<\/sup>– Billboard, Melbourne
\nSat 5th<\/sup>– The Gov, Adelaide
\nSun 6th<\/sup>– Rosemount, Perth<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tickets only $59 + bf. On sale now from metropolistouring.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Exclusive VIP Meet & Greet Packages available for each show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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