The Living Infinite

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	84/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
About.com	[2]
Allmusic	[3]
Blabbermouth	9.5/10[4]
Decibel Magazine	[5]
Exclaim!	9/10[6]
Metal Forces	9/10[7]
Metal Hammer	favorable[8]
Metal Storm	favorable[9]
Sputnikmusic	4.3/5[10]

The album received high acclaim. Trey Spencer of Sputnikmusic gave the album a "Superb" rating of 4.3/5, praising the album's heavier sound, dynamic songwriting and melodic, progressive content. Calling it Soilwork's "strongest, most consistent album to date", he stated that the band "have simultaneously stepped back to their past while maintaining their current sound, but they have also diversified their formula more than ever before – and they did so without a single filler track."[10] However, writing for Decibel Magazine, Adrien Begrand stated that "the primary flaw of The Living Infinite is its lack of variety, the cookie-cutter nature of the songwriting wearing thin after the halfway point".[5]

In the United States, the album debuted at No. 60 on the Billboard 200,[11] and No. 20 on the Top Rock Albums,[12] selling 7,800 copies in its first week.[13] The album has sold 26,000 copies in the US as of August 2015.[14]

Soilwork

• Björn Strid – vocals
• Sylvain Coudret – guitars
• David Andersson – guitars
• Ola Flink – bass
• Sven Karlsson – keyboards
• Dirk Verbeuren – drums

Guest musicians

• Justin Sullivan – vocals on "The Windswept Mercy"

Additional musicians

• Hanna Carlsson – cello on "Spectrum of Eternity", "The Living Infinite II"; piano on "Spectrum of Eternity"

Production

• Soilwork – production
• Jens Bogren – production, mixing, mastering
• Johan Örnborg – production assistance
• Linus Corneliusson – production assistance

Artwork and design

• Mircea Gabriel Eftemie (Mnemic, eftemie.com) – album cover
• Hannah Verbeuren (hannahvphotography.com) – photography

• Fascination Street – mixing, mastering