Album Review: Soilwork - "The Panic Broadcast"   Now, don’t get
me wrong. There are the usual breakthrough moments of machine-
gun metal bliss. “The Panic Broadcast” does well on that front:
Dirk Verbeuren is given an awful lot of freedom to absolutely
ravage his drum kit. Dirk’s best talent in his five years with
the band has always been his ability to be forceful without
being harsh. Nothing about that changes for the “Panic
Broadcast,” as his drumming folds nicely into the band’s
melodies and themes. Punishing when he needs to be, but artfully
tactful when the situation calls for it, Verbeuren is the
backbone for the rest of the experience.  Soilwork’s greatest
strength has always been their ability to adapt and grow as a
cohesive group of musicians. They’ve come a long way since the
less than smooth birth pangs of “Steelbath Suicide,” and the
musical epiphany of “A Predator’s Portrait,” which forever
altered the band’s musical idiom. “The Panic Broadcast” is no
different in that it extends Soilwork’s range