But, we also talked about Soilwork and I’d ask what he thought about the band after being away from it, and if it was something he’d be able to deal with in the future (laughs). Peter and I talked pretty much every other day, and we actually talked about starting a studio band on the side. “It was definitely a challenge for us because he wasn’t in the band anymore I looked at it as a challenge to prove to people that we could still do it. “Peter definitely was missed when we toured for Sworn To A Great Divide,” he continues. Whether Wichers’ return was inevitable is for the guitarist to say, but Strid admits he gave his former bandmate the occasional elbow in Soilwork’s direction. We’re making a statement with this record.” It’s supposed to be playful, it’s supposed to be progressive but still catchy. It presents and proves what Soilwork is all about. The new album is a re-invention of Soilwork. “I played around a lot with the vocals on the last album, but I could tell that everyone else was pretty much choked by the fact that Ola was in his ‘Oh, let’s do everything in a basic way…’ frame of mind. “I feel that the playfulness wasn’t there anymore,” Strid says of Sworn To A Great Divide. Obviously since he and Peter are related it’s been kind of tough, but it is what it is.
That’s one of the reasons we had to let Ola go we pretty much ran into a brick wall with Ola. His mindset was ‘Let’s record stuff people understand,’ and the rest of the band didn’t agree with that. “When we were recording the album he wanted everything to be so basic, he wanted to chase a hit song, so he went in and cut out double kick drums and stuff like that with the attitude that it was too much information. “On the previous album I felt there was a lot of negativity, especially from Ola’s direction,” Strid admits. With Wichers’ re-entry the Soilwork collective is finally on the same page. Soilwork hasn’t re-invented the melodic death metal wheel but have most certainly re-invented themselves.Īccording to Strid the changes in focus and sound can be attributed in large part to the 2008 departure of guitarist Ola Frenning and the return of guitarist Peter Wichers, who left Soilwork in 2005 to focus on his personal life. It takes off at a run, tracks ‘Late For The Kill, Early For The Slaughter’, ‘Deliverance Is Mine’ and ‘Two Lives Worth Of Reckoning’ setting a refreshigly brutal tone completely unexpected considering how, in retrospect, painfully uninspired the …Divide album is in comparison. The Panic Broadcast is a few steps back and a leap forward, tapping the energy that made the Natural Born Chaos record a fan favourite so many years ago without going the blueprint route. Put the first few tracks up against any of the songs on the band’s previous album, Sworn To A Great Divide, and you understand his thinking. To hear Soilwork frontman Björn “Speed” Strid describe the band’s new album The Panic Broadcast as “playful” is enough to set off the sell-out alarm.
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