Genre: Swedish metal

Information:

- Dirk started touring with SOILWORK in February 2004; he recorded the band's sixth full-length Stabbing The Drama as a studio drummer, then became a full-time member in November 2005
- Exile is the first video/single of Sworn To A Great Divide; it was featured as a downloadable track in the video game Guitar Hero III

- 20 More Miles is the second video/single

- the song Overclocked, soundtrack to the video game of the same name, was also recorded during the Sworn sessions

- the slipcase edition of the album comes with a DVD including the Exile video, studio footage and a 45-minute live bootleg filmed in Switzerland on April 19th, 2006
- the mailorder edition (500 copies) comes in a 7" gatefold sleeve and contains the same DVD, plus a 3" mini-CD with the bonus tracks Sovereign and Overclocked
- also released: a picture disc LP (1000 copies) and a picture disc 7" of Exile/The Pittsburgh Syndrome (500 copies)

Recording line-up:
Björn "Speed" Strid: vocals
Daniel Antonsson: guitars

Ola Frenning: guitars
Ola Flink: bass
Sven Karlsson: keyboards
Dirk Verbeuren: drums

Credits:

- Produced by Ola Frenning, Peter Wildoer and Klas Ideberg
- Recorded at Not Quite Studio, Helsingborg, Sweden in March-June 2007

- Vocals recorded and produced by Devin Townsend at The Devlab, Vancouver, Canada

- Released in October 2007 by Nuclear Blast
- Japanese release by Avalon/Marquee

 

Links:
www.soilwork.org

www.myspace.com/soilwork
www.nuclearblast.de
www.nuclearblastusa.com

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