Björn Strid
Björn Ove Ingemar "Speed" Strid is a Swedish vocalist who has worked with bands such as I Legion, Disarmonia Mundi, Terror 2000, Coldseed, The Night Flight Orchestra, and most notably Soilwork.
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. He 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 member to have stayed with the band for the duration of its existence, and is the only original member still in the band. Most of Soilwork's lyrics are written by Strid himself.Career
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, WA-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 performs 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
- The Chainheart Machine
- A Predator's Portrait
- Natural Born Chaos
- Figure Number Five
- Stabbing the Drama
- Sworn to a Great Divide
- The Panic Broadcast
- The Living Infinite
- The Ride Majestic
- Death Resonance
- Verkligheten
The Night Flight Orchestra
- Internal Affairs
- Skyline Whispers
- Amber Galactic
- Sometimes the World Ain't Enough
- Aeromantic
Guest appearances
| Artist | Song | Album | Year |
| 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" | 2007 | |
| Demon Hunter | "Collapsing" | The World Is a Thorn | 2010 |
| Howitzer | "245" | In Our Name | 2010 |
| Kamelot | "The Great Pandemonium" | Poetry for the Poisoned | 2010 |
| ReVamp | "In Sickness 'till Death Do Us Part: Disdain" | ReVamp | 2010 |
| Scarpoint | "Open Your Eyes" | Open Your Eyes | 2010 |
| Shadowside | "Inner Monster Out" | Inner Monster Out | 2011 |
| Fall | "From Ashes" | Fall | 2012 |
| Beyond All Recognition | "Brace Yourself" | Drop = Dead | 2012 |
| Blinded in Bliss | "The Idea of Poverty" | Constancy | 2012 |
| I Legion | "Signs from Above" | Beyond Darkness | 2012 |
| I Legion | "Beyond Darkness" | Beyond Darkness | 2012 |
| I Legion | "Despite Your Grace" | Beyond Darkness | 2012 |
| I Legion | "Love Is a Battlefield" | Beyond Darkness | 2012 |
| Motionless in White | "Puppets 2: The Rain" | Infamous | 2012 |
| Sarah Jezebel Deva | "Lies Define Us" | Malediction | 2012 |
| The Polygon | "Fatality" | Stained Anger | 2013 |
| The Polygon | "Stained Anger" | Stained Anger | 2013 |
| The Polygon | "Provocation" | Stained Anger | 2013 |
| The Polygon | "Lifeless Clone" | Stained Anger | 2013 |
| The Polygon | "Futuristic Landscape" | Stained Anger | 2013 |
| Bewized | "Heart Bled Dry" | Undead Legacy | 2013 |
| Aspherium | "Landfall" | The Fall of Therenia | 2014 |
| Endast | "Ocean of Regrets" | Thrive | 2014 |
| I Killed the Prom Queen | "Calvert Street" | Beloved | 2014 |
| Mellevon | "The Quiet Light" | Solace | 2014 |
| The Moor | "The Castaway" | The Castaway | 2014 |
| Sonic Syndicate | "Before You Finally Break" | Sonic Syndicate | 2014 |
| Caelestia | "Blessing of Tragedy" | Beneath Abyss | 2015 |
| Dawn of Destiny | "Burn in the Fire" | To Hell | 2015 |
| Dormin | "Liar " | To Foreign Skies | 2015 |
| Earthside | "Crater" | A Dream In Static | 2015 |
| I Legion | "Sirens" | Pleiona | 2015 |
| Phear | "Delusions" | Insanitarium | 2015 |
| Plaguestorm | "Synthetic Life" | Everything's Gone Wrong | 2015 |
| Rifftera | "Rotten to the Core" | Pitch Black | 2015 |
| Scarnival | "Watch Me" | The Art of Suffering | 2015 |
| Silenmara | "By Methods" | Methods | 2015 |
| T.A.N.K | "Blood Relation" | Symbiosis | 2015 |
| Undawn | "Never Giving Up" | Justice Is... | 2015 |
| Eths | "HAR1" | Ankaa | 2016 |
| Xaon | "Discrowned" | Face of Balaam | 2016 |
| Allegaeon | "Proponent for Sentience III - The Extermination" | Proponent for Sentience | 2016 |
| Thrown into Exile | "Song for the Lost" | Safe Inside | 2016 |
| Xandria | "We Are Murderers " | Theater of Dimensions | 2017 |
| Drops of Heart | "Starlight" | В Сиянии Звезд | 2017 |
| Inviolate | "Sisyphus" | The Insomniac's Dream | 2017 |
| Noel Husser | "Tell Me Who I Am" | Tell Me Who I Am | 2017 |
| Jotnar | "Broken Esteem" | Connected/Condemned | 2017 |
| Eshtadur | "Burning Heart " | Mother Gray | 2017 |
| Silent Descent | "Vortex" | Turn to Grey | 2017 |
| Omethi | "One With The Storm" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "I Bid Farewell" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Walk This Earth" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Grand Illusion" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "My Last Chance" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Only for Tonight" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Dwelling on a Distant Past" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Like a Slave" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Well of Pain" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Drown in Sacred Waterfalls" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "End of the Line" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Omethi | "Broken" | Drown In Sacred Waterfalls | 2018 |
| Hespera | "Solace in Solitude" | In Absence | 2018 |
| Hespera | "Miles Away" | In Absence | 2018 |
| Hespera | "Remnants of Existence" | In Absence | 2018 |
| Hespera | "Absolved" | In Absence | 2018 |
| Hespera | "Endless" | In Absence | 2018 |
| Hespera | "In Absence" | In Absence | 2018 |
| Tarja | "Dead Promises" | In The Raw | 2019 |
| Obsydians | "Psychodynamics" | 2020 |