Released 22 April 2003 | Length 40:52 Release date 22 April 2003 | |
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Recorded Guitars & Keyboards - Queenstreet Recording (December 2002 - January 2003)Drums - Dug-Out Productions (January 2003)Vocals & Bass - Studio Fredman (January - February 2003) Genres Melodic death metal, Alternative metal Similar Soilwork albums, Melodic death metal albums | ||
Overload by soilwork
Figure Number Five is the fifth full-length album released by the Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. The record was released on 22 April 2003 through Nuclear Blast label. On this release, the band introduces more alternative metal sound than their melodic death metal style.
Contents
- Overload by soilwork
- Soilwork figure number five
- Background
- Reception
- Track listing
- Band members
- Guest musicians
- Songs
- References
A few different editions of this album existed upon release. The normal release with eleven tracks, as well as a limited edition release with a second CD of their 1997 demo. The limited vinyl version of the album features two discs - this album and Natural Born Chaos, black and the other a white-colored vinyl. The Japanese version of the album includes one bonus track, entitled "Bursting Out."
Soilwork figure number five
Background
This album marked keyboardist Sven Karlsson's first attempts at songwriting for the band. While it is not necessarily interconnected with the keyboardist songwriting, this album features more use of the keyboard and lighter melodies. The album is considered a more commercial sound by most fans of Swedish death metal, but it arguably gives the music a broader appeal. However, vocalist Björn Strid has said the album has good melodies but lacks in intensity and could've been better composed; many fans and critics considered the album "rushed".
Music videos were made for the songs "Rejection Role" and "Light the Torch." In Flames appeared in the "Rejection Role" video, which featured the two bands being seemingly hostile towards each other (early in the video, a member of In Flames can be seen holding up a sign that says "Sellout" as the band drives by Soilwork). On the In Flames video of "Trigger" Soilwork appeared and were made interchangeably as a joke to the fans that either band had any indifferences with each other. This was the last album to feature Henry Ranta on drums.
Reception
In 2005, Figure Number Five was ranked number 398 in Rock Hard magazine's book of The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.
Track listing
All Lyrics By Strid.
Band members
Guest musicians
Songs
1Rejection role3:35
2Overload3:44
3Figure # 53:12