Björn Strid
Björn Ove Ingemar "Speed" Strid (born 10 September 1978) is a Swedish vocalist who has worked with rock/metal bands such as Allegaeon, Disarmonia Mundi, Terror 2000,[2] Coldseed, The Night Flight Orchestra,[3] Act of Denial, Gizmachi, and most notably Soilwork.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Björn Ove Ingemar Strid |
| Born | 10 September 1978 Glumslöv, Sweden[1] |
| Genres | |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Member of | |
| Formerly of | Darkane |
Early life
Strid was born in Helsingborg. He gained the nickname "Speed" from fellow students as a result of the "extreme music" he was known to enjoy.
Career
Strid co-founded Soilwork in 1995 under the name Inferior Breed which was later changed to Soilwork once the fledgling band's sound began to take shape. He is the only original member still in the band. Most of Soilwork's lyrics are written by Strid himself.
Strid has also provided vocals for Darkane on their demo recording prior to Lawrence Mackrory joining the band before their debut album. He made a guest appearance on the Destruction track "The Alliance of Hellhoundz" alongside numerous other prominent metal singers, as well as appearing on Zero Tolerance's "Prime Time Mind Surgery", Phoenix-based metal band Howitzer's "245", and Danish band Mercenary's "Redefine Me", from their album The Hours That Remain. He has also recently provided guest vocals for the Seattle, Washington-based band Demon Hunter on the track "Collapsing" from their album The World Is a Thorn which was released on 9 March 2010, and also performed on power metal band Kamelot's Poetry for the Poisoned in the track "The Great Pandemonium". He also performed guest vocals on the track "Puppets 2: The Rain" by American metalcore band Motionless in White. Since February 2013 Bjorn began collaboration with the Russian modern metal band The Polygon that released 2014 the debut EP Stained Anger. Recently he performed the choruses on The Moor's new single "The Castaway" which was released on 27 July 2014. He also provided vocals on Earthside's song, "Crater", from their critically acclaimed debut album A Dream in Static.
Strid utilizes a varied vocal style, being able to quickly alternate between more guttural growls and higher screams and clean, harmonious vocals, and has gone on record as saying that Killing Machine, which was retitled as Hell Bent for Leather for US release by Judas Priest is his favorite album, but more recently has cited Iron Maiden's The Number of the Beast as his favourite.
Soilwork
- Studio albums
- Steelbath Suicide (1998)
- The Chainheart Machine (2000)
- A Predator's Portrait (2001)
- Natural Born Chaos (2002)
- Figure Number Five (2003)
- Stabbing the Drama (2005)
- Sworn to a Great Divide (2007)
- The Panic Broadcast (2010)
- The Living Infinite (2013)
- The Ride Majestic (2015)
- Death Resonance (2016)
- Verkligheten (2019)
- Övergivenheten (2022)
The Night Flight Orchestra
- Studio albums
- Internal Affairs (2012)
- Skyline Whispers (2015)
- Amber Galactic (2017)
- Sometimes the World Ain't Enough (2018)
- Aeromantic (2020)
- Aeromantic II (2021)
Act of Denial
- Negative (2021)
Stereo Tragedy
- “01” (2021)
Guest appearances
Strid has provided vocals for the following artists:
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stereo Tragedy | “Entire Album” | 01 | 2021 |
| Construcdead | "Bitter End" | Violadead | 2003 |
| Destruction | "The Alliance of Hellhoundz" | Inventor of Evil | 2005 |
| Mercenary | "Redefine Me" | The Hours That Remain | 2006 |
| Zero Tolerance | "Prime Time Mind Surgery" | Prime Time Mind Surgery | 2006 |
| Nuclear Blast Records | "The Dawn of All" | Nuclear Blast All-Stars: Out of the Dark | 2007 |
| Demon Hunter | "Collapsing" | The World Is a Thorn | 2010 |
| Howitzer | "245" | In Our Name | |
| Kamelot | "The Great Pandemonium" | Poetry for the Poisoned | |
| ReVamp | "In Sickness 'till Death Do Us Part: Disdain" | ReVamp | |
| Scarpoint | "Open Your Eyes" | Open Your Eyes (single) | |
| Shadowside | "Inner Monster Out" | Inner Monster Out | 2011 |
| Fall | "From Ashes" | Fall (EP) | 2012 |
| Beyond All Recognition | "Brace Yourself" | Drop = Dead | |
| Blinded in Bliss | "The Idea of Poverty" | Constancy | |
| I Legion | "Signs from Above" | Beyond Darkness | |
| "Beyond Darkness" | |||
| "Despite Your Grace" | |||
| "Love Is a Battlefield" | |||
| Motionless in White | "Puppets 2: The Rain" | Infamous | |
| Sarah Jezebel Deva | "Lies Define Us" | Malediction (EP) | |
| The Polygon | "Fatality" | Stained Anger (EP) | 2013 |
| "Stained Anger" | |||
| "Provocation" | |||
| "Lifeless Clone" | |||
| "Futuristic Landscape" | |||
| Bewized | "Heart Bled Dry" | Undead Legacy | |
| Aspherium | "Landfall" | The Fall of Therenia | 2014 |
| Endast | "Ocean of Regrets" | Thrive | |
| I Killed the Prom Queen | "Calvert Street" | Beloved | |
| Mellevon | "The Quiet Light" | Solace | |
| The Moor | "The Castaway" | The Castaway (single) | |
| Sonic Syndicate | "Before You Finally Break" | Sonic Syndicate | |
| Caelestia | "Blessing of Tragedy" | Beneath Abyss | 2015 |
| Dawn of Destiny | "Burn in the Fire" | To Hell | |
| Dormin | "Liar (Urban Hideout)" | To Foreign Skies | |
| Earthside | "Crater" | A Dream In Static | |
| I Legion | "Sirens" | Pleiona | |
| Phear | "Delusions" | Insanitarium | |
| Plaguestorm | "Synthetic Life" | Everything's Gone Wrong (EP) | |
| Rifftera | "Rotten to the Core" | Pitch Black | |
| Scarnival | "Watch Me" | The Art of Suffering | |
| Silenmara | "By Methods" | Methods | |
| T.A.N.K | "Blood Relation" | Symbiosis | |
| Undawn | "Never Giving Up" | Justice Is... | |
| Eths | "HAR1" | Ankaa | 2016 |
| Xaon | "Discrowned" | Face of Balaam (EP) | |
| Allegaeon | "Proponent for Sentience III - The Extermination" | Proponent for Sentience | |
| Thrown into Exile | "Song for the Lost" | Safe Inside | |
| Xandria | "We Are Murderers (We All)" | Theater of Dimensions | 2017 |
| Drops of Heart | "Starlight" | В Сиянии Звезд | |
| Inviolate | "Sisyphus" | The Insomniac's Dream | |
| Noel Husser | "Tell Me Who I Am" | Tell Me Who I Am | |
| Jotnar | "Broken Esteem" | Connected/Condemned | |
| Eshtadur | "Burning Heart (Survivor Tribute)" | Mother Gray | |
| Silent Descent | "Vortex" | Turn to Grey | |
| Omethi | "One with the Storm" | Drown in Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| "I Bid Farewell" | |||
| "Walk This Earth" | |||
| "Grand Illusion" | |||
| "My Last Chance" | |||
| "Only for Tonight" | |||
| "Dwelling on a Distant Past" | |||
| "Like a Slave" | |||
| "Well of Pain" | |||
| "Drown in Sacred Waterfalls" | |||
| "End of the Line" | |||
| "Broken" | |||
| Tragedy of Mine | "Built to Resist" | Tenebris | |
| Hespera | "Solace in Solitude" | In Absence | |
| "Miles Away" | |||
| "Remnants of Existence" | |||
| "Absolved" | |||
| "Endless" | |||
| "In Absence" | |||
| Tarja | "Dead Promises" | In the Raw | 2019 |
| Obsydians | "Psychodynamics" | 2020 | |
| Divided | "Meteorite" | Behind Your Neon Eyes (album) | 2020 |
| Act Of Denial | "Puzzle Heart"
"Controlled" "Down That Line" |
Negative | 2021 |
| Powerwolf | "Killers with the Cross" | Call of the Wild | 2021 |
| Silver Lake by Esa_Holopainen | "Promising Sun" | Silver Lake by Esa Holopainen | 2021 |
| Enigmatic Entrance | "Cold as the Night" | Becoming Daylight | 2021 |
| Two Feathers | "Dissolution" | Metal Hellsinger OST | 2022 |
| Jani Liimatainen | "Breathing Divinity" | My Father's Son | 2022 |
| Epica | "Death Is Not the End" | The Alchemy Project | 2022 |
| Æther Realm | "Should I?" | 2023 |
References
- Attitude Inked: Ep01 - SOILWORK. 31 January 2013. Archived from the original on 14 December 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2015 – via YouTube.
- Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Biography: Terror 2000". Allmusic. Retrieved 15 March 2010.
- Karadimitris, Chris (16 February 2015). "Soilwork (Bjorn 'Speed' Strid)". Noisefull. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
External links
- Official MySpace
- 2005 interview with Björn Strid
- The Night Flight Orchestra on Facebook
- The Official Disarmonia Mundi website
- Björn Strid discography at Discogs