SOILWORK To Release Live DVD Next Year
October 12, 2007SOILWORK frontman Björn "Speed" Strid recently spoke to MTV.com about the group's new album, "Sworn to a Great Divide", which he believes is the band's most diverse offering to date.
"We can't make the same album twice," he explained. "Our music, it comes out in a natural way. We want to top ourselves every time, and we learn from the previous recording and try to take it to the next level. I definitely think we have developed our own sound, which is kind of hard nowadays. We were one of the originators of this balance between melodies and intensity, and we've developed that through the years. In the beginning, it was mostly the guitars that took care of the melodies. Now, it's in a different shade — it's more like the vocals take care of some of that stuff."
SOILWORK shot a video back in July for the album's lead single, "Exile", which Strid said has an unusual plotline.
"This director [Daniel Larsson] contacted us, and he had a tricky concept for the video," the singer explained. "His idea was that the whole band would be locked inside these speakers and amps, and this girl's walking her dog and she finds the speakers and amps in the bushes. She gets addicted to the music that comes out, and she wants to present it to the world — but we're working against her, tumbling around in the speakers. It's actually quite cool."
SOILWORK's music will be featured in the upcoming video game "Overclocked", a thriller about an Army psychiatrist who's called to evaluate five young patients who've lost their memories. The band wrote an exclusive song, also called "Overclocked", for the game. Strid said they also hope to issue a DVD next year, as it will mark the 10th anniversary of "Steelbath Suicide"'s release.
"It will be a live DVD," he said. "We wanted to do something special for our fans, and we've got lots of material already. We want to film some more shows soon — maybe even tape one show from each continent we hit on our tour."
Read more at MTV.com.
SOILWORK's entire new album, "Sworn to a Great Divide", is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.
Due in North America on October 23 via Nuclear Blast Records, an exclusive Nuclear Blast Online Shop mailorder edition of "Sworn to a Great Divide" is limited to only 500 copies and comes in a 7" gatefold-style package. The package contains the entire new album plus a bonus DVD with a live show, plus footage from the studio and more. Also included in this package is a 3'' mini-CD with two bonus tracks not found on the standard version of the album.
Watch the "Exile" video:
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