Formed in 1995, Soilwork are a melodic death metal band from Helsinborg in Sweden. The band have released seven studio albums to date with their most recent effort 'Sworn to a Great Divide' selling 5000 copies in their homeland. The band have gone through eight member changes throughout their existence - their line-up these days consists of Björn "Speed" Strid, Daniel Antonsson, David Andersson, Sven Karlsson, Ola Flink and Dirk Verbeuren. Soilwork's early work was influenced mainly by heavy groove-metal riffs, but now their sound is more influenced by American metal and they generally play a more user-friendly brand of metal.
