Natural Born Chaos
Occupation
- Vocals: Björn Strid
- Guitar: Peter Wichers
- Guitar: Ola Frenning
- Bass: Ola Flink
- Keyboards: Sven Karlsson
- Drums: Henry Ranta
Natural Born Chaos is the fourth studio album by the Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It was published on 25 March 2002 via Nuclear Blast.
Formation
The recordings for Natural Born Chaos took place in the period from October to December 2001 in Studio Fredman in Gothenburg. The album was produced by the Canadian Devin Townsend. The contact to Townsend presented the guitarist Peter Wichers ago. Wichers asked Townsend if he would produce the new Soilwork album and sent him a copy of the previous album A Predator's Portrait. Shortly thereafter Townsend gave his promise. Townsend headed for the songs " Black Star Deceiver " and " soilworker 's Song of the Damned " still backing vocals on. Another guest musician Mattias Eklundh, who contributed a guitar solo for the song "No More Angels".
As a co- producer came on the owner of the Fredman studios with Frederik Nordström. Was mixed Natural Born Chaos by Devin Townsend, Frederik Nordström and Peter Wichers, while Goran Finnberg took over the mastering. The cover was designed by Travis Smith. For the song " As We Speak" the band turned her first music video. The shooting took place in Gothenburg.
Background
According to vocalist Björn Strid the album title describes the chaos of today's world:
"It looks as if chaos is born this day in a natural way. Either you are born into a chaotic life or you are growing in a chaotic life. There are so many people who do not even get the chance to live a decent life. "
His inspiration for the lyrics Strid won in his work at a school for children with behavioral problems that have psychological and family problems. His experience he incorporated into the texts.
"Follow the Hollow" is concerned with the question whether it is right or wrong to follow something that does not exist. "The Flameout " is about a young man who constantly has problems and does not know how he hurt his environment by. In " Black Star Deceiver " is about a man who controls the lives of his friends and forces them to do cruel things against their will. "Mercury Shadow" describes the search for an antidote to hatred. The song " No More Angels " is to encourage them to go their own way and not follow others.
The title song was used for the soundtrack of Playstation-/Xbox-Spiels Splashdown 2.
Reception
Natural Born Chaos received mostly positive reviews from sides of the trade press. The German magazine Metal Hammer has named Natural Born Chaos "Album of the Month" of April 2002 edition According to Petra Schurer " unites the album all the qualities that should have a modern metal album. Originality, directness, complexity, dynamics, aggression, atmospheric density and accessibility, "for which she provided the album with the highest grade seven. Uwe " Buffo " Schnädelbach from the magazine Rock Hard designated Natural Born Chaos as "one of the most intense musical experiences of recent months " and gave the album nine out of ten. Negative commented Pedro Azevedo from the online magazine Chronicles of Chaos, who criticized the pop choruses that too much to remind him of jingles. Azevedo gave the album five out of ten.