New Release Information uu January SOILWORK Release Date Pre-Order Start Verkligheten uu 11/01/2019 uu 15/10/2018 uu Digi has different cover + includes bonus EP uu Studio Reports/ Listening Sessions at METAL HAMMER (GER), ROCK HARD (GER), LEGACY (GER), ROCK HARD (SK/CZ), METALLIAN (FR), METALIZED (DK), METAL WANI (IND), LA HEAVY (ES), METAL HAMMER (ES), SPARK (CZ), ROCK HARD (IT) Price Code: CD03 uu 12.10. digital Single “Arrival”, NB 4406-0 CD-Digi uu 26.10. digital Single “Full Moon Shoals” + bonus-EP: “Underworld”, different cover art uu 30.11. digital Single “Stålfågel“ uu advertising in many important music magazines OCT/NOV 2018 uu album reviews, interviews in all important Metal magazines in Europe’s OCT/NOV 2018 issues uu song placements in European magazine compilations uu spotify playlists in all European territories uu instore decoration: flyers uu Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Google+ organic promotion uu Facebook ads and promoted posts + Google ads in both the search and display networks, bing ads and gmail ads uu Banner advertising on more than 60 most important Metal & Rock websites all over Europe uu additional booked ads on Metal Hammer Germany and UK, and in the Fixion network (mainly Blabbermouth) uu video and pre-roll ads on You tube uu ad campaigns on iPhones for iTunes and Google Play for Androids Price Code: LP17 uu banners, featured items at the shop, header images and a back- NB 4406-1 2LP “»Verkligheten« will surprise and stir you!” ground on nuclearblast.de and nuclearblast.com black in gatefold uu features and banners in newsletters, as well as special mailings LEGACY | Patricia Lang to targeted audiences in support of the release SOILWORKS REALITY IN THEIR MELODIC WAY Territory: World WILL LEAVE AN UNFORGETTABLE IMPRESSION! uu Tracklists: 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 mu- sical differences. It has been hell. We have lost loved ones and significant others have fallen ill. We are not young anymore, and our DIGI: reality these days is the hellhounds on our tails, the ghosts in our subconscious and the coldness of existence that starts eating at your 01. Verkligheten 02. Arrival 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. 03. Bleeder Despoiler 04. Full Moon Shoals 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 05. The Nurturing Glance somewhere else, to express all those things that are born in between hypnagogic states and frenzies of hyperrealism. 06. When The Universe Spoke 07. Stålfågel 08. The Wolves Are Back In Town Verkligheten is the otherworldliness of Swedish suburban anxiety, accompanied by blastbeats and slide guitars. We also have a new 09. Witan drummer. His name is Bastian Thusgaard, and he made us all realize that there were still places we hadn’t been, sonic vistas left 10. The Ageless Whisper 11. Needles And Kin feat. Tomi Joutsen untouched by the greedy hands of the present. So we went there. 12. You Aquiver Bonus EP “Underworld” Verkligheten is also Sven Karlsson, poker player and raconteur, who has witnessed things in the heart of the darkness in Malmö, and 13. Summerburned And Winterblown brings it all out in bursts of liquid fire over his keyboard. And Sylvain Coudret, the French silver fox who has laid continents to waste 14. In This Master’s Tale with his steely blue gaze and extraterrestrial guitar playing. 15. The Undying Eye 16. Needles And Kin (original version) One might also say that Verkligheten is Björn Strid and David Andersson, who sing and play guitar respectively, and who also wrote 2LP (33 RPM): the songs this time around. Probably because they felt the pressure of Verkligheten, aching to burst from their tortured insides. Side A 01. Verkligheten 02. Arrival SOILWORK has been around, in one form or another, for twenty years now. Some people say that they haven’t made anything worth 03. Bleeder Despoiler listening to after »Steelbath Suicide«. Some have only heard »Stabbing The Drama«. Some think »The Living Infinite« was quite epic. 04. Full Moon Shoals It’s all good. At this point in a band’s career, you can either choose the nostalgia route, playing old albums in their entirety, because Side B 01. The Nurturing Glance that makes an easy package for promoters to sell. And the music industry is a lot about selling these days. You can also choose to 02. When The Universe Spoke ignore reality, and do what you really want to do, and try to evolve and create something new and different. Because that’s the rea- 03. Stålfågel son you started doing this in the first place, right? To make some sort of impression somewhere, to perhaps make someone feel a bit Side C moved or confused or inspired, or just to create something that would keep resonating somewhere in the ether, perhaps to become 01. The Wolves Are Back In Town 02. Witan an ignored aural wraith, but perhaps also to be remembered. Because there will always be another version of reality, and some of us 03. The Ageless Whisper will always try to find a way out of it. 04. Needles And Kin feat. Tomi Joutsen 05. You Aquiver Side D (bonus EP “Underworld”) +Coinciding with the release of »Verkligheten«, the band will embark on an extensive European co-headlining tour with label mates 01. Summerburned And Winterblown AMORPHIS (whose singer, Tomi Joutsen, is also featured as a guest on the song ‘Needles And Kin’). 02. In This Master’s Tale 03. The Undying Eye The limited first edition of the CD version of the album will feature different special artwork (see above) with a lavish foil printand 04. Needles And Kin (original version) will include 4 more tracks. www.facebook.com/soilwork · www.instagram.com/soilwork www.twitter.com/soilwork · www.soilwork.org · www.nuclearblast.de/soilwork Style: Melodic Death Metal NUCLEAR BLAST GmbH · OESCHSTRASSE 40 · D-73072 DONZDORF · GERMANY · PHONE +49-7162-9280-13 / -20 / -25 · FAX +49-7162-24554 uu www.facebook.com/nuclearblasteurope · www.twitter.com/nuclearblasteu uu LINKS: uu Nuclear Blast Video Clips · Nuclear Blast Bands on Tour · Nuclear Blast albums in the Charts · New Songs on Spotify uu www.nuclearblast.de New Release Information uu January uu LINE UP: Björn “Speed” Strid · vocals / David Andersson · guitars / Sylvain Coudret · guitars / Bastian Thusgaard · drums / Sven Karlsson · keys TOUR 11.01. D Oberhausen ....................................... Turbinenhalle 2 01.02. D Geiselwind .................................................MusicHall 12.01. NL Nijmegen ................................................Doornroosje 02.02. D Cologne ....................................................Essigfabrik 13.01. D Hamburg ..................................................Markthalle 03.02. B Antwerp ......................................Trix Muziekcentrum 14.01. DK Copenhagen ........................................... Amager Bio 04.02. UK London ............................................ Electric Ballroom 15.01. S Stockholm ...................................................Fryshuset 06.02. F Paris ............................................... Cabaret Sauvage 16.01. N Oslo ........................................ Rockefeller Music Hall 07.02. F Toulouse .......................................................Le Bikini 18.01. D Hanover ........................................................ Capitol 08.02. E Madrid .............................................................. Mon 19.01. D Leipzig ........................................................Hellraiser 09.02. E Barcelona ...............................................Salamandra 20.01. PL Krakow ............................................... Klub Kwadrat 10.02. F Lyon ................................................. Le Transbordeur 22.01. RO Bucharest ......................................... Arenele Romane 12.02. I Trezzo sull’Adda (MI) .......................... Live Music Club 23.01. BG Sofia ............................................... Universiada Hall 13.02. D Wiesbaden ..............................................Schlachthof 25.01. H Budapest ............................. Barba Negra Music Club 14.02. D Saarbrücken ..................................................Garage 26.01. A Vienna ...................................... Ottakringer Brauerei 15.02. D Stuttgart .............................................. LKA Longhorn 27.01. CZ Zlín .......................................... Masters of Rock Café 16.02. CH Pratteln ................................................................ Z7 28.01. SK Bratislava ....................................Majestic Music Club 21. - 27.07. SLO Tolmin....................................................... MetalDays 29.01. D Berlin........................................................Kesselhaus 11.08. UK Derby ........................................ Bloodstock Open Air 30.01. D Munich ...........................................Backstage (Werk) ALSO AVAILABLE: (World) Price Code: CD04 Price Code: CD11 Price Code: CD04 Price Code: CD04 NB 3786-2 2CD NB 3111-0 CD-Digi NB 3770-0 CD-Digi NB 1108-2 CD A predator’s portrait / Natural born chaos A predator’s portrait SPECIAL EDITION Death resonance Figure No. 5 CLASSIC SERIES Price Code: DVD03 Price Code: DVD04 Price Code: CD05 Price Code: CD05 NB 3320-0 BluRay+2CD NB 3320-4 DVD-Digi+2CD NB 0581-2 CD NB 1377-2 CD Live in the heart of Helsinki Live in