Category: Merch mailings

Packages sent to:
S Paulaeck, Germany
Jindrich Brejcha, Czech
Mikael Gillefalk, Sweden
Anders Nilsson, Sweden
Sebastian Jääskeläinen, Sweden
Frédéric Montin, France
Jeremie & Jonas Koch, Switzerland

Category: The new band

Just a little report on what's going on in the Coldworker camp right now. It's about a week left until we'll do our first live appearence up in Gävle supporting Gadget and the mighty Radioskugga. Will be interesting. We have a setlist of 6-7 songs that seems to be working fine for this occation.

Apart from that we are preparing to start recording a full length album during June. Yes, four months after the first rehearsal we're taping our first album. Kinda crazy, don't you think? I would love to speak more about this, but there will be more details (especially regarding record label and release dates) further on.

What I can say is that we have finished 15 tracks in all. Some of the songs have been sliced and diced and reassembled a couple of times to find its final form. It's actually quite interesting to see the different shapes a song can take before it settles. We've done rehearsal recordings on a weekly basis which has helped a lot.

Some more songtitles:
- Flammable
- Waiting for buildings to collapse
- Antidote
- Heart shaped violence
- Death smiles at me
- An unforgiving season
- A custom-made hell
- The contaminated void
- The interloper
- They crawl inside me uninvited

Today, me and Joel recorded some vocals and it's quite nice to hear the songs take shape with another "instrument" in the mix. One of the songs we recorded today we've had for a while so it was great to finally hear it with vocals.

As I've already said - there will be more album info soon, but for now this little report will have to do.

Finally - I've noticed that my blog posts often are turned into newsarticles at the metal webzines, and for the record - who ever rewrites this as a newsarticle - I was the DRUMMER of Nasum, NOTthe guitarplayer. OK?

Category: Merch mailings

Packages sent to:
Luke Eller, Australia
Ben Gansert, Germany
Robin Brolin, Sweden
Alliocha Krieger, Germany
Patrick Rottner, Germany
Gareth Payne, UK

Category: Ramblings & reviews

Although I am on a three times per week rehearsal schedule with Coldworker I managed to cram in a session with Regurgitate this past Sunday.

As you might or might not know I will be doing one show with Regurgitate in July at the "Grind your mother" festival in Italy. Jocke is having another child with his girl so he left the drum stool for me again. I did a number of shows with the band back in 2004 when he was injured, so the major work with rehearsing the songs was done back then.

It was great fun meeting up with Urban, Rikard and Glenn again and playing some plain old grind. As Coldworker is doing something completely different it was kinda nice to just hammer out blasts and d-beats in the old fashion.

The first round of the setlist was sort of rusty. We haven't played these songs together in two years and the other guys have been busy playing their new shit lately. But the second round was much better and I did a multitrack rehearsal with the complete set. It turned out pretty neat so here is a sample for you:

Regurgitate feat. Anders Jakobson: Lucid Fairytale (Napalm Death cover)

Regurgitate might put up something else from the rehearsal on their site, I don't know that yet.

Category: Merch mailings

Packages sent to:
Frederico Rainho, Lisboa, Portugal
Jason Sopko, Schererville, USA
Chris Peake, Helsinki, Finland
Mathias Krogh, Arvika, Sweden
Christoph Klein, Graz, Austria
Lac Du, North York, Canada
Patrik Wikström, Göteborg, Sweden
Matthias Gutehall, Borås, Sweden
Anders Karlsson, Skällinge, Sweden
Dirk Stephen, Werther, Germany
Marie Hellström, Göteborg, Sweden
Christoph Wilken, Stuttgart, Germany