 | This article needs additional citations for verification .(September 2022) |
This is a comprehensive listing of Soilwork's members.
| | This article needs additional citations for verification .(September 2022) |
This is a comprehensive listing of Soilwork's members.
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Björn "Speed" Strid [lower-alpha 1] | 1995–present | vocals | All Soilwork releases |
 | Sven Karlsson [lower-alpha 2] | 2001–present | keyboards | All Soilwork releases from Natural Born Chaos (2002) |
 | Sylvain Coudret [lower-alpha 3] | 2008–present | guitars | All Soilwork releases from The Panic Broadcast (2010) |
 | Bastian Thusgaard [lower-alpha 4] | 2016–present | drums | All Soilwork releases from Verkligheten (2019) |
| Rasmus Ehrnborn [lower-alpha 5] | 2022–present | bass | Overgivenheten (2022) | |
| Simon Johansson [lower-alpha 6] | 2023–present | guitars | none to date |
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peter Wichers [lower-alpha 7] |
| Guitars | ||
| Ola Frenning [lower-alpha 8] | 1998–2008 | |||
| Ola Flink [lower-alpha 9] | 1998–2015 | Bass | ||
| Dirk Verbeuren [lower-alpha 10] | 2004–2016 | Drums | ||
| Daniel Antonsson [lower-alpha 11] | 2006–2008 | Guitars | ||
| Ludvig Svartz | 1995–1998 | |||
| Jimmy Persson | Drums | |||
| Henry Ranta | 1998–2003 | |||
| Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg | 1998–2001 | Keyboards | ||
| Carl-Gustav Döös [lower-alpha 12] | 1995–1997 | Bass | ||
| Mattias Nilsson [lower-alpha 13] | Guitars | |||
| David Andersson | 2012–2022 (until his death) | |||
| Markus Wibom [lower-alpha 14] | 2015–2017 | Bass | ||
| Taylor Nordberg | 2017–2022 |
| Image | Name | Years active | Instruments | Release contributions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richard Evensand | Drums | 2003–2004 | Filled in on tours between Henry Ranta's departure in 2003 and Dirk Verbeuren's arrival in 2004. He has performed with such bands as Therion, Demonoid and, after filling in on the tours, Chimaira (for a short stint). | |
| Andreas Holma | Guitars | 2006 | Filled in on UK tour '06 after Peter Wichers' departure | |
| Peter Wildoer | Drums | Filled in on for three shows being two in Sweden and one for Festimad | ||
| Morten Løwe Sørensen | 2008 | Filled in on for two shows being one in Tallinn and the other in Riga | ||
| Christofer Malmström | Guitars | 2011 | Filled in on a Helsinki, Finland show for Peter Wichers | |
| Simon Johansson | 2019–2023 | Filled in for David Andersson before and after his death |
Cryptopsy is a Canadian death metal band from Montreal, formed in 1988.
Tristania was a Norwegian gothic metal band formed in 1996 by Morten Veland, Einar Moen and Kenneth Olsson. Tristania's music is usually classified as Gothic metal with death influences, due to its strong tie and legacy within the gothic metal history. Their songs largely dealt with dark and sentimental topics, including depression, sadness, suicide, love, absence, and anger.
Dark Tranquillity is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Gothenburg. They are considered one of the pioneering acts of the Gothenburg metal scene, which also includes bands such as In Flames and At the Gates - regarded as the Gothenburg fathers in the film entitled Out of Nothing: A DT Documentary released by Century Media, which was filmed in their home town in April 2009. After a nearly three-decade long collaboration of four founding members frequent lineup changes between 2016 and 2021 have left only vocalist Mikael Stanne as an original member, together with long-time keyboardist Martin Brändström.
Soilwork is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Helsingborg. They are signed to Nuclear Blast. Formed in late 1995 by Björn Strid and Peter Wichers, originally under the name Inferior Breed, the band changed their name in late 1996 to Soilwork.
Mnemic is a Danish heavy metal band formed in Aalborg in 1998. The band personally describes themselves as "Future Fusion Metal". The band dissolved in 2013, but in February 2024, the band announced their reunion, and will start touring in 2025.
Crowbar is an American sludge metal band formed in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1990. The band is fronted by vocalist/guitarist Kirk Windstein, Crowbar's sole constant member. Infusing a slow, brooding doom metal sound with the aggression of hardcore punk, Crowbar along with other bands in the New Orleans heavy metal scene pioneered a style known as sludge metal, though Windstein himself has admitted a dislike for the term. The band are also known for their covers of songs from outside of their immediate genre; these include Gary Wright's "Dream Weaver" on Equilibrium, Iron Maiden's "Remember Tomorrow" on Odd Fellows Rest, and Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter" on Crowbar.
Agathodaimon are a gothic/symphonic black metal band from Mainz, Germany. Their early material can be categorized as Symphonic Black Metal and their later musical pieces can be categorized as Gothic/Black Metal.
Power Quest were an English power metal band from Southampton. Prior to the band's retirement in 2023, the line-up consisted of keyboardist Steve Williams, drummer Rich Smith, vocalist Ashley Edison, guitarists Glyn Williams and George "The Kid" Karafotis, and bassist Bradley Edison.
Hecate Enthroned are an English symphonic black metal band initially founded with members from both Wales and England, but are now primarily based around Cheshire, England. The band formed in 1993 as a blackened death metal act under the name Amethyst, changing their name to Daemonum later on. By 1995 the band had adopted the name Hecate Enthroned and a symphonic black metal style.
Clas Håkan Jesper Strömblad is a Swedish musician who is the guitarist of the bands The Halo Effect, Dimension Zero and Cyhra, and formerly of In Flames and The Resistance. He is best known as the founder and former guitarist/drummer/keyboardist of the pioneering melodic death metal band In Flames, guitarist of the band Sinergy, bassist of Ceremonial Oath and drummer of HammerFall. In 2013, he joined Nightrage as a session guitarist.
Hardline is an American hard rock band. Originally formed in 1991 by brothers Johnny Gioeli and Joey Gioeli, the band consisted of five members, Johnny Gioeli, Joey Gioeli, Neal Schon, Todd Jensen and Deen Castronovo. The band's most recent album is Heart, Mind and Soul, which was released in 2021. Joey Gioeli has not appeared on a Hardline album since 2002's II after retiring from music to focus on the family business. Johnny Gioeli remains the only original member of the band.
Nitro was an American heavy metal band from Hollywood, California. Formed in 1988, the group originally featured vocalist Jim Gillette, guitarist Michael Angelo Batio, bassist T. J. Racer and drummer Bobby Rock. Nitro released its debut album O.F.R. in 1989, which reached number 140 on the US Billboard 200. Rock was replaced by K. C. Comet for the album's tour and Racer would leave the band thereafter. Nitro II: H.W.D.W.S., released in 1992, featured Ralph Carter on bass and Johnny Thunder on drums. The group broke up in 1993, with a number of previously unreleased demo recordings issued on the 1999 album Gunnin' for Glory.
Nocturnus, currently Nocturnus AD, is a Florida death metal band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 1987 by the drummer/vocalist Mike Browning. They were known for their science-fiction-themed lyrics and use of keyboards, both of which were virtually unknown in extreme metal at the time. The 1990 debut from the band is considered by some to be the first progressive death metal album.
Heathen is an American thrash metal band originating from the San Francisco Bay Area, active from 1984 to 1993 and again from 2001 onwards. Despite never achieving commercial success, the band is often credited – alongside Exodus, Testament, Forbidden, Death Angel and Vio-lence – as one of the leaders of the Bay Area thrash metal scene of the mid-to-late 1980s, and they have gone through several lineup changes, leaving guitarist Lee Altus as the only constant member. To date, Heathen has released four studio albums: Breaking the Silence (1987), Victims of Deception (1991), The Evolution of Chaos (2009) and Empire of the Blind (2020).
Sonic Syndicate was a Swedish metalcore band from Falkenberg. They were originally influenced by Swedish melodic death metal bands such as In Flames and Soilwork, as well as American metalcore bands like Killswitch Engage and All That Remains.
Devolved is an Australian technical death metal band led by drummer and lyricist John Sankey, originally from the Gold Coast, Queensland, then based in Los Angeles where Sankey resided for over 15 years. The band has released four full-length albums and has toured extensively throughout Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States and Japan.
Peter Wichers is a Swedish guitarist, songwriter and record producer best known as one of the founding members of melodic death metal band Soilwork. From 1995 until late 2005, when he announced his departure from the band, and again from 2008 until 2012 he was the lead guitarist and songwriter, especially on their Stabbing the Drama album.
The Faceless are an American technical death metal band from the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. They released their debut album, Akeldama, in November 2006, and a follow-up, Planetary Duality, in November 2008. The band's third album, Autotheism, was released on August 14, 2012. On December 1, 2017, the band released their fourth album, In Becoming a Ghost.