SOILWORK: New Video Interview With BJRN 'SPEED' STRID Posted Online

May 22, 2008

Capital Chaos conducted an interview with SOILWORK frontman Bjrn "Speed" Strid at the Orangevale, California stop of the band's recent tour with THROWDOWN, WAR OFAGES and THROUGH THE EYES OF THE DEAD. Topics of discussion include arenas vs. clubs, file-sharing, hockey, cruise ship gigs and strange celebrity encounters

Watch the five-minute chat below.

SOILWORK recently parted ways with guitarist Ola Frenning due to Ola's "resistance to the demands of the road." David Andersson filled in on the band's tour with THROWDOWN. The group is curently completing a tour of Japan and Southeast Asia before returning to Europe for festivals and a headlining U.S. tour in the fall.

SOILWORK sold 5,000 copies of its new album, "Sworn to a Great Divide", in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 148 on The Billboard 200 chart.

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