''The Chainheart Machine'' is the second studio album by the Swedish

melodic death metal Melodic death metal (also referred to as melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal (including New Wave of British Heavy Metal). The genre features the heavi ...

band

Soilwork 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 ...

. It is the first Soilwork release to feature guitarist Ola Frenning and drummer Henry Ranta. There is an instrumental

hidden track In the field of recorded music, a hidden track (sometimes called a ghost track, secret track or unlisted track) is a song or a piece of audio that has been placed on a CD, audio cassette, LP record, or other recorded medium, in such a way as to ...

on "Room No 99" as the song ends at 5:00 followed by silence until the 7:00 minute mark where the hidden track begins. The hidden track transitions perfectly into the opening title track.

Track listing

Credits

Soilwork

* Bjorn "Speed" Strid − vocals *

Peter Wichers 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 un ...

− guitar * Ola Frenning − guitar * Ola Flink − bass * Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg − keyboards * Henry Ranta − drums

Guests

* Mattias Eklundh − guitar solo on "Machinegun Majesty" * Mattias Nilsson - 2009 remastering

Release history

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chainheart Machine, The Soilwork albums 2000 albums Century Media Records albums Concept albums Albums recorded at Studio Fredman Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström