SOILWORK Guitarist To Sit Out Festival Dates

May 9, 2009

Guitarist Peter Wichers of Swedish metallers SOILWORK has released the following statement:

"Me and my wife are expecting a little baby boy any day now, and I have therefore decided to stay home this summer to spend some well-deserved time with my family. This, unfortunately, means that I will not be performing with SOILWORK at the upcoming festival shows in Europe.

"A good friend of SOILWORK, Mr. David Andersson, will step in and fill my spot for these shows, but have no fear! I'll be back with the boys again later this year when we get ready to hit the studio!

"So please do me a favor, have a few beers for me and raise the horns to the sky for my brothers in SOILWORK as they tear it up in Sweden and Finland!"

Upcoming SOILWORK shows:

Jun. 3-6 - Sweden Rock - Sölvesborg, Sweden
Jun. 5-7 - Sauna Open Air - Tampere, Finland

In a recent interview with SuicideGirls.com, Wichers spoke about what direction the band might take musically with its next album. "We talked about maybe taking a little bit of a different approach for the next record," he said. "Having me and Sylvain [Coudret, guitar] back in the band, I think that we're probably going to try to do stuff that might be a little more technical. We want to keep the element of the catchy chorus but at the same time maybe have bit more guitar solos than on "Sworn to a Great Divide" and also let Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] get more space on the record for drumming. That was one of the things I think that "Sworn to a Great Divide" was lacking a little bit. It's a good record but I think that with such talented musicians the next album definitely needs to have more performance."

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