SOILWORK Frontman Slams BLABBERMOUTH.NET Detractors: 'Get A Life'

Deadtide.com recently conducted an interview with SOILWORK frontman Björn "Speed" Strid. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow:

Deadtide.com: You were just forced to cancel some shows in Turkey due to terrorist activities, what's your reaction to that?

Strid: Well, I mean, basically it was that everybody was kinda stressed out about the tour, which was really squeezed in between two tours, and it would end up being two months, or even more touring, and some guys in the band felt really stressed and wanted to reschedule the tour instead of just going there. I mean we want to feel good about it. There had been some attacks, especially some where tourists have been the target. In the beginning it was only the tourist beach resort, but now it was also in Arkara as well. Maybe we would have been safe, who knows, but we felt really stressed about it and I felt that it was really a better thing that we reschedule, if we're welcome anymore, I don't know. (laughs)

Deadtide.com: Turkey's going to ban SOILWORK? (laughing)

Strid: Yeah, it seemed like that on the website. We really tried to explain, but they were like "Oh, you fucking pussies!"

Deadtide.com: Yeah, whatever.

Strid: Well, okay, then we're fucking pussies. Whatever...

Deadtide.com: How is the search for a new guitarist going?

Strid: Good. We've tried out two before this tour, and we're trying out a third, and they're all really good guitarists and great people, so it's gonna be hard to make a decision. We have to make a decision after this tour, this is the last tour with this album, so we have to start working on the album and recording it in March.

Deadtide.com: What's your reaction to the backlash of your change in style over the years?

Strid: There's this guy, who as soon as there's anything SOILWORK-related on Blabbermouth, is always saying "That doesn't matter because blah blah blah. SOILWORK went downhill after 'Chainheart Machine'." He does that every time. It's like "Dude, get a life. Fucker."

Deadtide.com: He sits there on the computer ready to pounce, like refreshing the page every fifteen seconds waiting for something SOILWORK-related.

Strid: (laughing) Yeah, it's crazy. Anyways, I totally respect that people only like the old style, but I do believe that most of our fanbase is really growing with the band. I find it very interesting because we always surprise our listeners, and even ourselves, with the outcome. I hope that people respect that too, that we don't want to make the same album twice. It's still gonna be SOILWORK, it's not going to be something completely different.

Read the entire interview at www.deadtide.com.