Soilwork – Verkligheten – Vinyl LP

Coloured Vinyl, Reissue

SOILWORK is a band that has been through a lot. We don’t have to try and tidy things up by using clichés like personal and/or musical differences. It has been hell. We have lost loved ones and significant others have fallen ill. We are not young anymore, and our reality these days is the hellhounds on our tails, the ghosts in our subconscious and the coldness of existence that starts eating at your soul the very day that you leave the womb. We can no longer escape the fact that we’re vulnerable to the shortcomings of life itself.

Verkligheten is the Swedish word for reality, the entity that we’re all trying to escape from. Verkligheten is our attempt to try and go somewhere else, to express all those things that are born in between hypnagogic states and frenzies of hyperrealism.

Verkligheten is the otherworldliness of Swedish suburban anxiety, accompanied by blastbeats and slide guitars.

Side A
1 Verkligheten
2 Arrival
3 Bleeder Despoiler
4 Full Moon Shoals

Side B
1 The Nurturing Glance
2 When the Universe Spoke
3 Stalfagel

Side C
1 The Wolves Are Back in Town
2 Witan
3 The Ageless Whisper
4 Needles and Kin (feat. Tomi Joutsen)
5 You Aquiver (feat. Dave Sheldon)

Side D
1 Summerburned and Winterblown
2 In This Master’s Tale
3 The Undying Eye
4 Needles and Kin