SOILWORK Guitarist: 'DEVIN TOWNSEND Is A Machine'

April 5, 2003

SOILWORK guitarist Peter Wichers recently spoke to Chart Attack about the recording process for the new record, "Figure Number Five", after working with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD mastermind Devin Townsend on the band's last album, 2002's "Natural Born Chaos".

"Well, one thing was to be extremely anal," Wichers said. "When it came to recording, [Devin] was a total perfectionist and we were going to use Devin as well on this one. But we thought there was no reason to wait for him just because he could do it in March and we wanted to do the album at this time. So we said, 'Well, let's try it ourselves and see if we've learned anything.' I'm very happy with the results. But he was amazing, standing over us with a blowtorch, putting fire up our asses, metaphorically speaking. To be able to work the kind of hours he did was amazing to me. He's like, 'Well, I just have to take a joint and then I can continue working.' But at the same time he was writing stuff for STRAPPING YOUNG LAD. He'd say, 'I wrote 10 songs for STRAPPING. I'm not going to use them all, but…' and I said, 'How the fuck are you doing this?! You're recording us all the time and you're sitting here smoking weed and you're writing stuff!' To me, it's totally amazing. He's a machine. We love the guy! We became very close friends with the guy so I don't think he has anything bad to say about us."

SOILWORK's "Figure Number Five" is due on April 21 through Nuclear Blast Records.

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