Yeah, the shop has been closed for a few weeks due to a personal move from one house to another. Will open soon again and I'll take care of all the backorders. / Anders

Jag har ingen som helst aning. Den pressades aldrig upp av någon firma, utan vi kopierade kassetter själva efter bästa förmåga. Så jag har faktiskt ingen aning, och det är dessutom väldigt svårt att avgöra om ett exemplar på marknaden är ett "original" eller en "kopia". / Anders

Det har att göra med att Mieszko och Urban upplevde att A-drop inte riktigt fungerade live. Tydligheten försvann, så då blev det B#-drop live och så följde det med in i studion. Det var B#-drop under farvälturnén också. / Anders

I have no idea. I haven't bothered to meassure the speed and find that kind of "extreme sport" mentality in grindcore pretty uninteresting. / Anders

I dagsläget finns det inget att berätta men om det händer något kommer vi att berätta om det för alla. / Anders

Man får hålla tummarna riktigt hårt... Dessvärre har jag ingen makt över vad som händer efter att jag lagt paketen på lådan och då och då verkar det vara klåfingriga människor på Posten som norpar åt sig varorna... :( / Anders

Well, as most any other music style electronic (dance) music has a mainstream and an underground, so no matter what the mainstream does the underground remains the same. As for any modern metal, I think we've had enough of breakdowns by now... / Anders

No. October 6, 2012 was the last show EVER. / Anders

No. October 6, 2012 was the last show EVER. / Anders

Well, it's not currently in production, so I can't help you with that. / Anders

I wouldn't have the slightest idea. / Anders

There is no common chord progression. / Anders

I reply within two days, but there has been a few orders with faulty email addresses so my replies have just bounced back. I would suspect that yours was one of them, so just make a new order and make sure to write your correct email address! / Anders

Should be up and running by now. / Anders

There's a link the leads to an emal address somewhere. / Anders

Well, something like that is what we are working on, but I rather not speak more about it until it's a done deal. / Anders

Det är aktuellt och kommer att ske inom kort! / Anders

It was posted today and might answer a few of your questions. / Anders

"Enkelresa till rännstenen", a session which also included the songs for the Nasum/Skitsystem split and the Ebba Grön cover "Beväpna er" which just recently got released on a one-sided 7" EP. / Anders

Thanks. Yes, there are some leftover merch that will be put up online soon, but it's mostly odd sizes and not all of the designs we had on the tour. I'm sorry to say that there isn't a single copy of the baseball shirt left among the leftovers... / Anders

Du har lyssnat på CD:n förstår jag, där två låtar i mitten blivit samma "nummer"... "Söndermald" är den tunga instrumentala låten som är sist, sen kommer "Revolution II" som är låten "Revolution" igen fast med pitchad sång som inte sjunger någon text alls. Bara en rolig sak i studion. Gammalt jox finns möjligen att hitta begagnat, men inte nytt. / Anders

Don't use a drummachine! / Anders

There's a curfew at 11 already so it's an early show. / Anders

Swedish and Finnish is two completely different languages that comes from different roots. However, there are some Swedish speaking parts of Finland and for some reason some people in Finland learn to speak Swedish. Keijo and our Finnish crew know some Swedish but don't really know how to speak it. Some times Keijo speaks Swedish and he seriously sounds like the backwards speaking dwarf in "Twin Peaks". Very funny. But never the less he can sing the few Swedish songs we play. / Anders

There are no presales as it's a free show. The only way to guarantee a "ticket" is to be there in good time. / Anders

Well, I have most of the letters in the "Nasum alphabet" already and might do something once all this touring is over, so thanks - but no thanks. / Anders

Don't know about flags. That is a venue question. We wouldn't mind, but I'm not sure that most of the audience will enjoy a flag in their face.

Thanks for the logo. I actually have made something similar myself when some possible Russian shows were under discussion. But you version was better! / Anders

It's fully legit to yell out your songs of choice during the shows... Just saying... I guess the average price will be €15, i.e. something like £10 in London... / Anders

No info. Apparently they are a bit secret at Truckstop Alaska. I can't find any info... Maybe at Facebook? / Anders

It might be possible. It's impossible to say right now what we will have in stock at that date... / Anders

Sorry, I don't have that particular image in any high res format at the moment. Perhaps you can borrow the cover from someone and scan it? / Anders

Yes! / Anders

We'll try our best to have patches and other smaller stuff for the final European tour as well as some new t-shirts and perhaps something else. You can contact our press contacts for interviews and such. We already have some ideas for DVD documentation, but that remains to be seen if there will be something or not. / Anders

Relapse were supposed to put out some reissues on vinyl a couple of years ago, but I don't know what happened with that... / Anders

Yes, but no. All the shows are now booked. / Anders

No, that will not happen. Most importantly: we all have "real" bands to focus on once this Farewell tour is over and it would be impossible for us to start a new grindcore band as it would be seen as a continuation of Nasum and people would obviously demand Nasum songs live and so on. I will not rule out that some of us will play together again in some form, but a new band with this line-up is totally out of the question. / Anders

First of all: fuck you for bringing Mieszko's death into this question. Did you know him? Was he a friend of yours? No? Second of all: Nasum is my creation, I am the remaining founding member (and has been since 1995) and it's been a part of my life for more than half of my life and something I've put down more hours into than anything else, simply because there are thousands of people enjoying our music. They are still doing it and they will keep on doing once the final show is played October 6th. And what I do in the future to maintain Nasum is nobody's business than mine. Third of all: this is not a reunion, it has never been, and it's not about Mieszko. Fourth of all: Add as many Euro and Dollar signs you want, but you don't know shit about our economy. Don't like it? Don't go to the shows, don't buy the records, don't buy the t-shirts. / Anders

Yes, it's the grind finale for good! / Anders

Yes, there are no pre-sales for Debaser Medis as it's a free show (actually free until 21.00, but it's quite likely that the place will be "sold out" by then). It's a 800 capacity club, so there should be space left after the Sweden Rock Cruise is over. I would expect that you are not the only one from that ship that wants to come to the show. Doors are at 19.00 according to the website: http://www.debaser.se/kalender/8313/. / Anders

Thanks for coming, and you know that you have the possibility to catch us again on the final European tour? / Anders

Most of the dates will be announced the coming week if everything goes as planed. So keep your eyes open! / Anders

Thanks! / Anders

Thank you, and yes it sure was REALLY hot... / Anders

We're not coming back because this is the Farewell tour, and it ends in October. / Anders

We will have merch at Obscene Extreme, but perhaps not any caps... / Anders

Mja, några sådana planer finns väl inte, men skivorna ska ju gå att köpa en och en till hyfsat vettiga priser. "Grind Finale" samlar ihop allt icke-albummaterial så den är något separat. / Anders

Sure! / Anders

Vad jag minns så spelade de in varsin första- och andragitarr på de låtar båda spelar på. På minst hälften av plattan har Mieszko lagt alla gitarrer och bas av den enkla anledningen att vi bara repade halva skivan med fullt band. Å andra sidan har Urban lagt alla stränginstrument på "Creature" som han skrev och som aldrig repades över huvud taget. / Anders

We'll be on tour until October, but it's a little bit too late to fit a Mexican tour into the schedule now... / Anders

Thanks! / Anders

I sommar kommer man inte att se oss i UK... / Anders

Please ask a serious promotor to contact our booking agent, otherwise we won't go there. / Anders

Will do. / Anders

Come to a show and see for yourself... / Anders

Perhaps after the tour is totally finished. / Anders

Obviously we're trying to get a good solid sound that will cover all of the different productions from the albums, and currently that is made with the help of some Mesa amps. / Anders

Silvester Dezsi for The Agency Group Scandinavia. Tel: +46 (0)40-97 62 50 Email: silvesterdezsi@theagencygroup.com / Anders

Perhaps we do, perhaps we don't... / Anders

We will have different set lengths during the tour, so there will be alternative lists. / Anders

Yes, just wait and see... / Anders

Wait and see... / Anders

The answer to your first question is yes, just stay tuned... As for Extremefest - they are a traveling one-day-festival thing so the ticket for Austria is for just that day. I jumped the gun there - Extremefest is a festival with rotating bands and I don't know if they sell day-tickets. / Anders

Perhaps from a historic point of view, but not from a practical. / Anders

We'll try to do that! / Anders

That email hasn't been active in many years... Unfortunately it's still linked somewhere on the website... / Anders

Thanks and see you! / Anders

The shit will be grinded! / Anders

Jag räknar kallt med tusentals YouTube-klipp under resans gång, men det är mycket möjligt att något filmas lite mer proffsigt också. Sen får vi se om det blir något av det eller inte. / Anders

Live, hoppas jag, för skivorna har ju inte försvunnit... :) / Anders

:) / Anders

I think that everyone but Urban and Rickard has been vegetarian sometimes during their lives. Mieszko was a vegan for a while. / Anders

Perhaps. We are not really dying to do it though... / Anders

Well, I'll come over and have a look then... :) Sorry, can't help you. That design has been out of print for many years. Perhaps you can locate a copy on eBay? / Anders

Unfortunately, no. / Anders

I suggest you read Mieszko's report from the recording of "Helvete", I think it answers your questions. / Anders

No, no, maybe, yes. / Anders

Dude, it's been 13 years since "inhale/exhale" and I can't remember what I had then. I can say this much though: it was a Sabian china. My brand of choise has always been Zildijan, except for the china where I've always used a Sabian.

Also note - as I always says when it comes to questions about particular sounds - that the cymbal has been recorded through a microphone, and processed in several ways until it ended up on the record, so it's slightly difficult to judge a cymbal by how it sounds on a record... / Anders

Hehe, I believe that product is called "Näsum", with dots over the A, which actually is a small village in the south of Sweden, from the same part of the country where IKEA once started.

About merch... Perhaps... / Anders

1. "Ros" was never played live.
2. My voice is not fit for any live shows...
3. The three first albums were released as picture discs shortly after the demise of the band, and "Shift" was still such a "new" album that a picture disc would interfere with the sales of the normal vinyl edition. It was always a dream to have the albums complete on picture discs, but there are currently no plans to release "Shift" in that format.
4. There might be some unfinished and/or lost songs from many of the recordings, but everything that can and will be published is on the albums and "Grind Finale".
5. Wow, I don't recall any other possible band names. I think it always was Nasum. / Anders

It's not down. / Anders

The server that hosted the live gigs are dead and gone. / Anders

Cool! I hope it heals well! / Anders

Currently there are no such plans, but I'm sure some sort of video stuff will show up in the not too distant future. / Anders

To keep it simple, all the symbols represent different kind of subjects connected to Nasum's lyrics and the overall political themes. The first one is kind of a sun, the second one is kind of tricky, but I think it's a take on globalization and the last is the biohazard symbol. The artist had a really good explaination of all the symbols but it's nowhere to be found now. / Anders

It might happen in the future. It's a big seller and I like the design. / Anders

The one that you put on your head... No, sorry don't know any brands or models or anything. / Anders

There was a black version of the same design printed at the same time. I also remember a 3/4-shirt, you know a white shirt with slightly longer black sleeves made with one of their logos before that. I can't remember if there were any other designs prior to that. / Anders

Nope. Use your ears! :) The few tabs that are out there on the web are mostly incorrect. / Anders

I can't remember exactly, but as the Japanese promotor rented whatever stuff we wanted (go, Japanese promotor!) I guess we got the Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier and it's very possible that the amp's distortion was used. If not, it was the Mesa Boogie Preamp that was Mieszko's main distortion pedal from "Helvete" and to the end. / Anders

I just answered this. As replied then, this symbol - as many others, have been used in many different ways, and it's pretty obvious that it's not used in this case to promote fascism. / Anders

Haha, of course I need to publish it! Amazing! / Anders

Well, according to the wikipedia link you attached a sun cross is "a cross inside a circle", which is not the case with the "Terror" design. And according to the same article I wouldn't say the tie is particulary "strong" to nazism/white-power... I prefer the musical reference: "In modern music tablature the sun cross can denote a change of guitar from an acoustic tone to a Distortion tone", which works with the song "Fight terror with terror" that is the basis of the shirt title and quoted lyrics in the print. I approved the design. / Anders

All the info you need. / Anders

No news. / Anders

Mja, jag tror att det skedde gradvis när vi började förstå att vi hade en publik. Personligen tyckte jag att det var enklare att skriva texter med jämnare kvalitet när vi inte hade så sjukt många låtar på skivorna, hehe... Själva textskrivningsprocessen var lite olika mellan mig och Mieszko. Jag satt hemma och filade, medan han skrev i studion i princip när han skulle spela in sången. Funkade bra, båda varianterna.

Jag skulle inte säga att den musikaliska utvecklingen var planerad eller uttänkt. Det enda jag kan minnas är att när det var dags för "Human 2.0" så var vi lite medvetna om vilka olika typer av låtar vi behövde skriva. / Anders

Yes, they are pretty cool. / Anders

I don't have that information. Should have paid attention to that in the past. / Anders

1. Yes, he was in school for about a year learning the basic stuff, but I also think he had a natural talent for it. I can't really remember that he had a real interest in the subject in question before he took that course.

2. I think that it won't hurt to learn the basics through a course of some sort. Again, it's a matter of talent. I got neither any skills nor talent for sound engineering so it's just some pointless trial and error that's going on when I try to mix and shape the sound. Recording is easy, editing is easy, but mixing is something else. / Anders

Yes, the server where I had the songs and videos is dead so currently I have nowhere to have them. There are some stuff over at YouTube so have a look there. / Anders

It's already finished so you are too late... / Anders

Maybe, maybe not. / Anders

Not gotten it yet, or heard any other tracks. / Anders

Yes, it's 500 copies and I wouldn't count on a second pressing. Limited edition! / Anders

Reissues of "Inhale/Exhale" and "Human 2.0" on vinyl is coming next year, can't say exactly when at this point. They include bonus tracks (related tracks, all available on "Grind Finale") and new liner notes written by me. / Anders

Unless it's a band playing really simple music I would not consider playing any string instrument again. I'm quite happy being able to compose songs but I'm too sloppy to play the guitar or the bass for real.
Doing more vocals will never happen though. I was just lucky that I managed to record a few decent lines here and there as I lack any sort of technique for singing. / Anders

I am excited to hear it! Some of the song choices are very surprising to me to it will be quite fun to hear it. / Anders

Nope, I sort of doubt that they had any real lyrics anyway...

There's a vinyl reissue of "Human 2.0" coming up soon, so don't give up the hope... / Anders

Thank you. Yes, MySpace is boring and not particularly personal. / Anders

Do it! / Anders

No. I'm waiting for the final album as everyone else. I am very surprised by the choises of songs though, pleasantly surprised... / Anders

Thanks! / Anders

Slut! / Anders

Japp - theblackswarm@gmail.com. / Anders

I'm sort of quoting the information I've gotten from Relapse regarding covers: You need to speak to John Williamson at Domino Publishing Company (johnw@dominorecordco.com) about securing mechanical licenses.
But - I would advise you to pick another song. "Time to act" is easily the most covered Nasum song out there. I don't know how many version I've heard... / Anders

Det var vi båda och det var inget projekt utan ett riktigt band. / Anders

No plans right now. / Anders

It had to do with us starting to play live and couldn't do the dual vocals we had had on most of the records, so Mieszko obviously became the lead singer. / Anders

That particular "one day" has yet not come... / Anders

There are no tabs. The tuning was the same as far as I remember. / Anders

Rerun of a reply written almost a year ago...

Q: Are there any english translations of your swedish songs like "Hets"?
A: Not really, but here is a "quick and dirty" translation, without any poetic ambitions...

What the fuck happened to your life and dreams?
A struggle for something unreachable and slippery
Your skin is whipped, it's beaten so it hurts
All this fucking stress drowns your life in black

What? Are you supposed to lie down and die?
Burnt out, wasted and totally run down
- Throw out the corpse, waste the shit!
Is this the thanks you will get?
Wear and waste, wear and waste - bring on the next slave

- You have to produce, concentrate, feel no guilt
You feel their eyes, you always feel the preasure
And your motivation is golden watch
Consumed by time, a slave under the stress

What? Are you supposed to lie down and die?
Burnt out, wasted and totally run down
- Throw out the corpse, waste the shit!
Is this the thanks you will get?
Wear and waste, wear and waste - bring on the next slave

What happened to your life? - Burnt out!
What happened to your life? - Run down!
The stress took over your life!

"Hets" doesn't really mean stress. I have never really found a good English word for it. It's like a mix of haste and stress. / Anders

I remember looking quite a lot at Disharmonic Orchestra's logo when drawing the original. I don't think it's that obvious, apart from perhaps the "S" which is sort of similar. / Anders

What it all comes down to is the drop-A-tuning that was introduced completely on "Human 2.0", which also has the first melodic parts ("Shadows" being the obvious example).
As for the examples you mention - the ending of "Closer to the End" is heavily inspired by Isis and I remember Jon laughing as he said that none of his other bands would let him getting away with such an obviously stolen part. "Darkness Falls" was the last song on the album and demanded a definitive finale (it's the same on all the last songs on the albums), and it's also a sort of sentimental and sad song so the melody was obvious. "Ros" has the same kind of melodic qualities as many other songs by Mieszko, as the mentioned "Shadows" and "Fury".
At The Gates was a source of inspiration as any other Swedish metal band, but perhaps not as obvious in our sound as for example Entombed. The only thing I can certainly say is stolen from them is the break and the word "Go!" in "Sixteen" on "Human 2.0"... / Anders

Well, the first one is some kind of sun symbol and the second one is a political misch-masch that I don't quite remember the exact meaning of. / Anders

Good question. I have something in mind, but I choose not to disclose any details since I can's guarantee something. / Anders

Not at all, they are very cheap from me... / Anders

It's scheduled to be released at Obscene Extreme, so you are too late. But fortunately for you. no band did "Fury" so perhaps you can be on part two if there is one...
More info at power-it-up.de. / Anders

The lyrics were so bad...? :) / Anders

Thanks a lot. / Anders

1. Yes, Nasum was in Italy three times. The absolute last show was in Italy.
2. Perhaps in the future, but not this year.
3. I like a lot of music, most kinds of metal, most kinds of alternative music and some commersial.

This was question #1000 - congratulations! / Anders

I think I've listened to them, but I can't remember. I'm not keeping track of current grindcore. / Anders

It was a very cheap shirt. What can I say, it was our first shirt (after the debut album) and we were broke. / Anders

I can't guarantee it. / Anders

Nasum never visited Poland, but Coldworker might show up in the future. Who knows? / Anders

I wouldn't judge the sound of a snare from a live clip on YouTube... But it's the Black Panther as usual.
Cool clip, I haven't seen it before. Completely out of sync though... / Anders

"Grind Finale" was limited to 1000 copies all black. No represses are planed. And "Doombringer" was only pressed in weird colors as far as I remember. / Anders

You should write to rennie@relapse.com for further instructions. / Anders

Yes, he was Polish and came to Sweden at age 7 if I remember correctly. / Anders

Apparently the server where I had all the videos and songs have disappeared, so I need some new place to host them...

The split is coming... some day. / Anders

Ja, det fanns inga planer på att sluta. Nasum hade ju i princip bara börjat.
Det lär ha varit Black Panthern för det är den enda virvel jag äger. / Anders

I approved it and I think it's fucking awesome! / Anders

I believe that the most fun was at different festivals, like the two times on Hultsfred, Wacken and so forth. As for venue shows... well, you can't really beat CBGB's, can you? But I think the warehouse gig we did in Lancaster at the end of the US tour was the most fun. 100% party and I even played a couple of songs with a blown up baloon - in my mouth! / Anders

Yes, it's my old 5-string Washburn bass, that my parents gave me on my 18th (?) birthday. It was used in Necrony and also in Nasum, like on this picture, where Mieszko is playing the bass. It's not a fancy bass at all. / Anders

"Ät din spenat varje dag, så blir du go och glad". / Anders

Can't remember, but we used a sans amp to boost things up. / Anders

The snare is arguable the hardest "instrument" to get right in a recording, I have yet to experience the perfect snare sound on one of my own recordings. Of course playing death/grind it's extra hard especially if you want to avoid using triggers and go for that natural sound.
I can remember what snares we used. Soundlab had one of two that was primary used because they were better than mine. I don't think I've used my own snare on any (real) recording.
Can't say which album has the best snare right now, and no new info about the comp. / Anders

The sound is more about the guitar mikes, the pedals and the amp rather than the guitar and strings itself. / Anders

Skytt isn't pronounced the same way and I can't remember one single time that we made fun of it in that sense. The word "skytt" means shooter, so it's quite different from "shit".
No, the booklet isn't supposed to be upside down so you got an unique and - would I imagine - annoying copy. / Anders

Nasum doesn't exist any more. / Anders

Never heard of it, so no. / Anders

Use a tuner and figure it out. / Anders

Again, I recommend this text. / Anders

Used, you mean. The last years: Drop-A on the recordings, Drop-A# live. First two recordings were D and then we went to B until the recording after "Inhale/Exhale" where we mixed B and Drop-A. / Anders

Yes. They look good, but obviously not as good as the first edition. / Anders

Think I've answered this before - he's introducing the band. / Anders

Basically the same as described in this text. / Anders

Yes, but after "Tillsammans" he turned towards more disturbing movies. / Anders

Hey, not familiar with "synesthesia" since before, but I am happy that the combination of our artwork and music works fine. Aesthetics have always been important in everything I do.

Is "freaky ass" positive or negative? To me it's one of the greatest Swedish movies of all time. / Anders

No, the Ex-Nasum thing isn't any old Nasum songs or ideas reused.
No translation is available. One day I will try to have all the Swedish lyrics translated on nasum.com. / Anders

Drop A. / Anders

Before we did it, the director said "You're gonna play the song 50 times", and we were like "Yeah, right". But actually it was true... We started around 6 in the morning or something and carried on for most of the day. It was quite exhausting in the end and as I played the song for real each time I'm quite happy we didn't do a video for one of the blasting songs. I would have died.
The most fun part was when the extras came in the coveralls and gasmasks. It was a bit strange to play with a haunting person standing next to me... / Anders

Den gråa är väl den splattriga? Jag har så dålig koll...
Jo, jag har har nya "Grind Finale" som promos. / Anders

Jag har så dålig koll på pressningarna att jag inte bemödar mig med att ha med den informationen på sidan. Din lista ser ganska korrekt ut, fast "Inhale/Exhale" kom i en vit (?) press också, fördelningen mellan röda och svarta på "Shift" stämmer inte och "Doombringer" kom i fyra olika utföranden (vilka tog slut innan jag ens hann få personliga ex av dem, förutom den genomskinliga...). Kolla med skivbolagen för mer exakta uppgifter.

Splitten kommer när den kommer (vagt svar jag vet, men jag kan inte säga något mer exakt än så)...

Här är rapporten från begravningen.

Tack för de snälla orden, jag gör bara så gott jag kan! / Anders

Not as regular as other kinds of metal. What is doom these days? Last good - if not excellent - doom band I heard was Kongh, before that Yob... / Anders

Perhaps. Can't answer for Urban and Jon though. / Anders

I did a few shows with Regurgitate when Jocke was unable to participate, so it was basically the same setlist at every show so the songs pretty much stuck with me after the first one. We had a few rehearsals prior to each show. It was quite fun to play their songs, and I guess if they would ask me to do a show today it would be pretty easy to get the songs going again.

My biggest problem with Retaliation is the lack of lyrics, which leads to improvised vocals that pretty much sound the same all of the time that makes it hard for me to distinguish one song from another. Other than that they are cool. We never played with them during the Nasum years, but Coldworker and Retaliation shared a stage a while back. It was a noisy performance for sure... / Anders

I don't have time to do any more Masterblasters interview right now, so perhaps in the future. I don't keep track of each and every grindcore band out there, but seeing as 10 years has passed since "Inhale/Exhale" came out when the grind scene was pretty small, it really looks good nowadays, so I am happy as long as people keep on playing grindcore the old fashion way. / Anders

Yes, and no. There are quite a few different live shows available at this page so download them for your own pleasure. / Anders

I don't think it will remain for long though... / Anders

Alltough the LP's and CD's are made from the same master I would say - without having done any A/B comparisons - that there are a slight difference in the sound, but that's basically because they are two different formats. It might also differ from vinyl to vinyl due to the pressing plant, the turntable and so on.
Also, only "Inhale/Exhale" was recorded on tape, everything else - from that point - was digital. / Anders

Yes, we had an idea of what we wanted to do next. We were inspired by some of the more spontaneous songs on "Shift" that basically were made in the studio (for exampel "Circle of Defeat" didn't exist when we started the recordings), so the plan was to create a bunch of songs in the studio and see how that would pan out.
As for crust/d-beat - it can't possible be more crust/d-beat than Krigshot... / Anders

Ok. / Anders

No. Haven't been any for close to 15 years. / Anders

Almost the entire song writing was done individually. It was most convinient and it really worked well for us. It was better to have a bunch of finished songs when we entered the rehearsal room and both Mieszko and I were fast learners so it was productive times.
He liked to keep his songs a little bit more open for adjustments during the rehearsal whereas I were more "finished" with my songs when I showed them. Of course there were exceptions but they were few.
I don't think there's a single track credited to the both of us, when it comes to the music. We wrote lyrics for each other every now and then, but basically it was 100% individual song writing. / Anders

I am a composer, not a guitarist. I usually write all my stuff on a fucked up accoustic guitar that consistantly downtuned to B or A (the knob for the lower E-string is broken). So that's it really... :) / Anders

Skicka ett mail med beställning, adress och vilken PayPal som betalar och betala sen. / Anders

Jag förutsätter att du har ett PayPal-konto och då är det "bara" att skicka pengar till adressen ("Send money to"). / Anders

Faktura för reklamplatsen kommer inom kort. / Anders

Every single outtake is on it, except for a few "Inhale/Exhale" outtakes that are lost. / Anders

They are on "Grind Finale", dude. / Anders

That's the only recording I've done outside my own "circle" (= the Krigshot LP, Ex-Nasum "demo", Coldworker demos and Coldworker albums). Oh, yeah, I recorded the drums, bass and vocals for the second Ruin demo as well (it was actually the same weekend as Regurgitate).
Hm... to be perfectly honest there is a rehearsal thingy with Regurgitate where I play the drums also, but that's it.
I would love to record other bands, but I haven't got the time or skills to do it. Yet. / Anders

No. Who would sing? / Anders

I'm almost 100% certain that that song has nothing to do with "Sixteen". It will remain a mystery. / Anders

Eh... ja, för sex frågor sedan... / Anders

I'm not ruling out the possibility, but there are no plans as of now. It would be cool to have a sort of more luxurious edition made of each title, like proper gatefold covers and so on. / Anders

I don't really know what Swanö did, but if he triggered it, he sampled the natural sound of the snare and used it, that's usually how he rool. / Anders

No. As for the second question, I would express my deepest disappointment with Clean Plate Records (as described in the "Grind Finale" booklet). That's the closest thing to being ripped off by a record label. / Anders

I believe it was 80. / Anders

We felt that it was hard to get clarity in the riffs with the drop A tuning live, it just became a big mess, so we changed it just a little bit. / Anders

Drop A on the records, Drop A# live. Coldworker is Drop C. / Anders

Read about it here. / Anders

Not really, but here is a "quick and dirty" translation, without any poetic ambitions...

What the fuck happened to your life and dreams?
A struggle for something unreachable and slippery
Your skin is whipped, it's beaten so it hurts
All this fucking stress drowns your life in black

What? Are you supposed to lie down and die?
Burnt out, wasted and totally run down
- Throw out the corpse, waste the shit!
Is this the thanks you will get?
Wear and waste, wear and waste - bring on the next slave

- You have to produce, concentrate, feel no guilt
You feel their eyes, you always feel the preasure
And your motivation is golden watch
Consumed by time, a slave under the stress

What? Are you supposed to lie down and die?
Burnt out, wasted and totally run down
- Throw out the corpse, waste the shit!
Is this the thanks you will get?
Wear and waste, wear and waste - bring on the next slave

What happened to your life? - Burnt out!
What happened to your life? - Run down!
The stress took over your life!

"Hets" doesn't really mean stress. I have never really found a good English word for it. It's like a mix of haste and stress. / Anders

Should I? / Anders

Haha! Very strange to hear your own voice coming out of an animated Japanese girl! / Anders

I haven't heard the album, but Rotten Sound has always been good. / Anders

Rätt, fel forum för merchfrågor. Men svaren är ja, och några dagar. / Anders

Yes, it's true. It felt like the right circumstances to do it, and it was a band decision. But it's really only for the comp, the cover will not be a part of our livesets etc.

We're going to play one of my old songs from the early years, before Mieszko started to sing (and before I started to play the drums in Nasum), so comparisons with the latter Nasum sound should be obsolete. / Anders

1. It was one of smoothest collaborations with an underground label that I have experienced during all the years. Mike was very cool, everything I suggested he agreed to and then added all the extra stuff to make the "Grind Finale" 4xLP something extraordinary. I mean, he appologized because he could only do black and white print on the labels...

2. I didn't know about Unrest earlier and all the albums etc was already covered by other labels.

3. Not much, but one of these days... / Anders

No, I've been using them for less than a year. They are very thin shoes, so it's the next best thing from playing barefooted as I used to, and they certainly protect my feet. They work fine for me. / Anders

Unfortunately, no. / Anders

"Du är bevakad" (Nasum, 1998)...
Tja, det återstår väl att se vad som händer, men jag fattar inte vem som ska orka kolla igenom alla "Ska vi äta lunch?"-mail mellan Bosse och Lasse varje dag... :) / Anders

Unfortunately not. There were so many bands on that tour. / Anders

The confirmed line-up is very exciting and if they get all of the bands they've asked it will be amazing. I'm surprised (in a good way) about the choices of covers so I'm looking forward to hearing the album. At this point I choose not to speak about what I look forward to the most among the individual bands/songs. I'm psyched about the whole release actually. / Anders

Det återstår att se, men jag antar att några ex kommer att ramla in hos mig. / Anders

He's introducing the band, like "This is Urban, this is Anders..." and so forth. / Anders

Not at the moment. Last repress was about exactly one year ago and there are still shirts left. / Anders

If there's an afterlife there should logically have been a "beforelife", and I have no recollection of a such. So if there's an afterlife you wouldn't probably remember this life...

But if you want to be on the safe side, become a mormon! (South Park reference) / Anders

No, we sell our merch, and they sell theirs. / Anders

I don't know. EMG's probably. / Anders

What's the fun in a band with the EXACT sound? But Sayyadina and Gadget are inte same style as Nasum. Check 'em out! / Anders

You are a freak. / Anders

Jag har varit lite dålig på merchfronten på sistone, tar itu med det under helgen. / Anders

Yeah, the second pressing was on black, so it's real. That's one of the few Nasum releases I don't own myself... :( / Anders

Jodå, jag har hört och sett Totalt Jävla Mörker ett antal gånger. De har sina stunder. / Anders

No, it's just something that started with the "Inhale/Exhale" cover which sort of had a "pollution" theme. / Anders

Not a massive fan of either Pink Floyd or Tom Waits, but of course I have listened to both. / Anders

Never. / Anders

What ever he had, I don't think it was used on the album. / Anders

You have answered your own "funny" question. / Anders

I have no memory of that incident. My best guess is that Jon was more drunk and decided to talk... :) / Anders

Mieszko does all the talking on "Doombringer". / Anders

Nej. De säljer sin merch och jag säljer vår. Nu när dollarn är så låg handlar det inte om så stora summor och så himla lång tid tar det inte för en beställning att komma från USA. / Anders

Hm, vi var väl egentligen inte med på "Swedish Assault" utan bara på en bonusskiva, men den kanske borde vara med i alla fall...? Jag tror att "Blind world" trycktes i 600 ex. Har för mig det var så, hur som helst den singel det finns minst ex av. / Anders

I guess you are talking about "The Contaminated Void"? It's really a question for Orion Landau, the artist, but using silouette's are pretty common in art. The horror movie poster you are thinking of might be the first "Friday the 13th"? This is original art though, the man is one of the workers in Relapse's mailorder. I've seen the original photo. / Anders

I am mostly influenced by rock drummers, but a real influential drummer for me as a kid was a friend of my brother. He was a really good hardrock drummer in the biggest band in town and my brother took me to his rehearsal place so I could try the big kit and so forth. I learned a lot from this and it really inspired me. Other than that my biggest inspiration ever is Neil Peart from Rush. / Anders

I've answered this a thousand times before... 1) I couldn't sing the songs live, 2) I couldn't sing at all without losing my voice for a week, so no thanks! / Anders

That shirt has been printed on white and on grey shirts, nothing else. / Anders

That was most likely Jon, as he plays in Victims. / Anders

The videos have the same set up as presented earlier. I have, however, updated them slightly. / Anders

Do you mean the cover artwork? I've seen bootlegs of it. / Anders

Ah, sorry, efter hackattackerna härom veckan bytte jag lösenord men missade tydligen att byta i bloggen. Nu är den igång igen. / Anders

I use a very long and heavy Swedish stick - Vincent 2R. I've played longer sticks during the last - I don't know - six years. I used to play Zildjian Super 5B but lately I've been playing the Vincent stick. I should probably try to learn playing shorter sticks though.

I need a certain weight in my sticks to be able to play at all, lighter sticks don't work at all for me. / Anders

It was completely deleted. / Anders

Det händer inte ett skit. Och det är tveksamt om det kommer att hända något mer igen. / Anders

Den är på G och info kommer när det kommer! / Anders

Ok. / Anders

Ära vare gud i höjden, funktionen har jag gjort i slöjden! Det är typ en vanlig gästbok egentligen rakt upp och ned. / Anders

Music has always been a free time occupation for me, and every dollar earned has went back into the band in some way or another (equipment, rehearsal room rent etc). It was actually not until the last Nasum tour that we earned some private money, which incidentally mostly covered what we lost in income from taking a month of from work. You have to be on another level to actually live on the music. / Anders

Its' possible that the occational distro still carries brand new copies of it (perhaps even the Relapse Mailorder), but I don't know of any. Amazon has the Japanese version, but it's pretty expensive. / Anders

Jag antar att du syftar på det ex som ligger på eBay. Det är äkta och säljaren är en pålitlig person (som t.ex finns med på flera av våra tacklistor!).

Jag tror omslaget kopierades upp på vilket papper vi än kunde hitta. Jag kom inte ihåg några gröna ex, men som sagt - det är ett äkta ex. / Anders

Most likely: no. / Anders

No. / Anders

Lite fel forum för att ställa en sådan fråga, men i maj ska skivan komma. / Anders

Well, Relapse don't sell bootlegs, they sell authorized merchandise that's OK'ed by the band. Bootlegs are not OK'ed by the band, and does nothing to support the band. Nasum always had a lot of integrity when it came our records and merchandise and to see some shitty product out there is a terrible feeling because the average fan doesn't know what it official or not.
And "Bootlegged in Japan" was an official release, despite the name... / Anders

I really don't know what that means. But as far as I know there are none. Officially. I've seen bootlegs, but don't buy bootlegs. That's ot supporting a band! / Anders

Därför att Relapse gör sina grejer och jag gör mina grejer. / Anders

"Hi-hat and symbols..."! That was funny! Anyway, for me playing a blastbeat is a matter of co-ordination - right foot & arm / left arm / right foot & arm / left arm etc. It is essentially a normat 2/4 beat with the second hi-hat/cymbal beat left out. For me it would be impossible to play a blast with right hand/arm on the snare.

In my opinion the "blast with the right hand on the snare" is a completely different beat, as played by Cannibal Corpse for example.

But any way you slice it is good I guess. There are no correct ways to do anything anymore. So if it works and sounds good, then just do it. / Anders

I'm not comfortable with that. / Anders

You are correct. / Anders

Jag antar att den får den vanliga distributionen, om inte annars lär jag väl sälja ett par ex själv. / Anders

It really isn't that advanced as it might sound like. Basically it just a matter of adjusting the EQ and levels, with the aid of good plug-ins. For "Grind Finale" I got a crash course from Dan Swanö and then I had 150+ tracks to practise on. / Anders

It's the same 16 songs on the releases. The old cover trade idea was canned millions of years ago. / Anders

Basically the same thing as on "Grind Finale". It was a little bit of editing and then some tweaking with the Firium plug-in. / Anders

Yes, it's mastered but it's a very rough recording from start so don't expect any high quality shit. Just a rough slice of life on stage with Nasum. All info about the recording is in the blog archives. / Anders

Aha... Guess I have some announcing to do... soon. / Anders

Haven't listened to them in years... Can't even remember what they sounded like. / Anders

Det har väl snarare inte varit aktuellt. Men i höstas såg jag faktiskt om lite "Arkiv X"- och "Millennium"-avsnitt. / Anders

Har inte hört den faktiskt, men jag har gillat det mesta Mayhem hittat på de senaste åren så jag får kolla upp den vid tillfälle. / Anders

Probably a little irritation about the "Dis" trend that had passed a few years earlier. / Anders

Allt som släpps via Relapse är godkänt av oss (mig). / Anders

Let's make 2008 the year of Coldworker then! / Anders

Basically it's just graphics without any proper meaning. The first time we used the recycle symbol was 2000 on the tour t-shirt for the Napalm Death tour (the same design that's available now as "Recycle"), and at some point a drunken punk came to the merchtable and asked what it meant. As it is a combination of the recycle symbol and the Eye of Providence, I said something along the lines of "recycle everything you see and make something new". In other words: be inspired.
But basically it's just graphics. / Anders

Me too! / Anders

Yes. / Anders

Yeah. A 14 year younger version of me, or something. / Anders

Hehe, ja, så där kul har man på kvällen i Finspång medans man spelar in "Pathological performances" på dagarna. Ska erkänna mig skyldig till "stop-motion"-animeringen när en mössa äter upp två temuggar, plus att jag håller i kameran under den avslutande - mycket improviserade - låten.

Och ja, jag är Snülf-Balder (obs, korrekt stavning) utan händer också. Tycker för övrigt fortfarande det är hur kul som helst när Rickard kommer upp ur golvet i Musikhörnan.

Det finns en "deleted scene" från denna session där jag intervjuar en bas utan strängar. Bara i Finspång... / Anders

Nope. It's all Rickard. / Anders

"Vi" har inte valt någonting, utan det var Relapses beslut att "bara" trycka 15 000 ex. Antar att de trodde att de skulle räcka ett tag, men de tog slut tämligen fort. Antar också att skivan är så pass dyr att göra att det inte riktigt funkar att beställa 1000 nya ex som med andra skivor.

Men skivan finns ju hos Relapse... / Anders

Browse through the earlier questions. / Anders

Yes. / Anders

I "mina" japanska skivor så är det med en tunn extra booklet med översättningarna. Den vanliga bookleten är som den är överallt annars. Men det finns säkert undantag. Har ett svagt minne om någon tidig No Fun At All CD som japanerna hade tagit ut texterna till själv (och skrivit ut på engelska) med måttligt lyckat resultat. / Anders

The first one is the world release and the other is the Japanese release. They are exactly the same apart from a small extra booklet with Japanese translations. / Anders

I don't listen to the radio so I can't really say. On the national radio channels (not the commercial ones) there are a few metal shows that plays everything from Foo Fighters to extreme noise, it's the same channel that awarded Nasum with a price for "Helvete" back in 2003. / Anders

Har det någonsin varit några fina grindspelningar i Örebro (förutom Filthy Christians på Kulturhuset (originalet alltså, inte det som heter så idag) 1990)?
Regurgitatefrågor får du ta med Regurgitate. / Anders

Not that much, just another good band I'd like to listen to for inspiration, but it really didn't show in the Nasum songs. / Anders

Patience, my young padawan... / Anders

The more the merrier! / Anders

As long as the drums doesn't sound like a drummachine it's OK. / Anders

Alla samplingarna på "Shift" plockades från olika "independent media"-sajter, från nyhetssändningar, intervjuer och lite allt möjligt. Jag har ingen koll alls på källorna eftersom jag spelade av det som lät intressant och jobbade med dem senare. Några av dem är montage dessutom.
Utan att säga för mycket så kommer Sagan om Nasum att avslutas med "Den svarta fanan"... / Anders

I used to be a vegetarian when I wrote the lyrics, but not anymore. How ever the lyrics are more about the whole industry rather than food. / Anders

It's from a very good movie called "Tillsammans" ("Together") and the translation of the samlple is actually on IMDB's page for "Tillsammans": "Don't take this personally, but you're so fucking stupid." (which actually should be followed by "You're so fucking fooled." to complete the whole sample.) / Anders

Call it whatever. In my conservative mind grindcore is played by a drummer not a machine. That's it. / Anders

There are no grindcore bands with drummachines... The essence of grind is a drummer beating the shit out of his or her drums as fast as possible. Anyone can program a fast blast on a drum machine.

Unrest is from Canada. / Anders

Enbart om jag får spela där själv. / Anders

OK. / Anders

Well, technically I guess it's violating the copyright laws, but I doubt that any one will haunt you down for making a t-shirt or two. I did a few one-off t-shirts back in the days myself. / Anders

If you mean print one (1) t-shirt for yourself, the answer is maybe (= I want to see what you plan to print). If you mean multiple copies, the answer is no way... / Anders

Jodå, den är svängig tycker jag. / Anders

Nope. Old school triggers had a drum machine feeling for sure... / Anders

I am anti-vomit so I can't watch that stuff. / Anders

No, that's a project for the future that probably not will happen... / Anders

Either it means "a grindcore band from Sweden that I really like, so much that I am willing to put their name on my body" or it doesn't. Get "Grind Finale" for the real explaination. / Anders

Vet inte om det blir några fler. Gjorde en liveintervju med Adam från Misery Index i somras, men mp3-spelaren sparade inte det 45 minuter långa samtalet. Det tog dessvärre knäcken på mig. / Anders

Jag känner inte till Rocks vara eller icke vara, men personligen har jag sedan länge ansett att skivbutikernas hemvist är på nätet, även om det så klart är trevligt att stå och bläddra emellanåt. / Anders

Funkar fint, du kanske skriver en nolla i stället för ett stort O som andra bokstav? / Anders

I "piten" har jag inte varit på måååånga år. / Anders

Municipal Waste fucked me up! / Anders

Yes, it's a local store that's closing down and selling everything for 30% less, including a few copies of "Grind Finale". / Anders

I think most of the symbols explain themselves. The tricky one may be the second one. The artist - Robert Samsonowicz - had a good explaination at his website earlier, but it seems that it's not there anymore. / Anders

I'm sorry, I don't remember the riffs. / Anders

No, I will not print more GSS t-shirts. However, someone else might do it in the future. But not me. / Anders

Nope. Not a real "band" per definition, just something me and Dan Swanö did three session with back in the early 90's. / Anders

The current stock may be the last one ever, but who knows? I'm using a local printer. / Anders

OK. / Anders

Well, yes, that's not really news, but if the story about Fenriz being arrested in South Africa protesting against apartheid (which means that it would have taken place in the 80's or 90's) is true, seems highly unlikely to me... / Anders

Somehow that story sounds slightly unbelievable, but who knows? First I've heard about it. / Anders

They are not questions per se, but includes information that I need to save for a while and I'm too lazy to move the information elsewhere! / Anders

Yes. / Anders

1. This is certainly the most frequently asked question, that I have answered numerous times. And again: the sound of a recorded guitar is made out of the mikes on the guitar, the amp, the cabinette, the eventual pedals used, the mike(s) that recordes the sound, the size of the room, the soundboard, eq's and effects and not to forget the actual musician who plays the guitar. The easy answer is: we're from Sweden - that raw, crunchy, fat sound is in our blood! :) But for a more detailed description, check out Mieszko's "recording of Helvete".

2. Is it the feedback during the drum introduction you are thinking about?

3. That was a China cymbal! / Anders

I guess with "open handed" you mean to have your fingers grip the bounce of the stick instead of using your wrists/arms? That is the correct way to play any beat, but to my knowledge I've only seen one blastdrummer do it (that be Danny of Napalm Death).
I would say that I guess I play "closed" by default, but sometimes I try to work of the bounce and if you master that technique I think the blasts can be both solid and hard.
But in the end, any way that works is fine as long as you don't hurt yourself or get tired fast etc. / Anders

Mieszko och han Rogga som lade lite bakgrund här och där. / Anders

Tja, låtarna du listade är skrivna av mig respektive Rickard så då är det väl "alla" som skrev låtarna... Hm... / Anders

Yes. / Anders

Prova att kontakta dem på deras MySpace (där det finns nya låtar att lyssna på) för inköp.
Jag tänker inte ranka mina kollegor. / Anders

Yes. Or a short lived project. A couple of rehearsals and then a recording and that was it. I only have the Bloodshed songs on cassette and DAT, but hopefully one day I will be able to put them online. / Anders

Jag fick den häromveckan. Den är kanon. Mycket bättre än första plattan. Antar att den är ute nu. / Anders

No. I have tried that before but it's extremely complicated for me to ultimately get the money. / Anders

Sounds pretty cool, nice riffs and that. Sounds like a drum machine though and the vocals are a little bit too noisy for my taste. Also some parts sounded a little bit "jokey", like that fishfingers sample in the first song.

Keep it up. / Anders

No. / Anders

There's been a bunch of different distortion pedals used during the 15 recording sessions, the DS-1 was more frequent than the Metal Zone.
As for the bass guitar I don't quite understand the question, but if you're wondering if we tracked the bass twice that only happened on the "Domedagen" demo. Of course in some parts (like breaks and such) the bass is overdubbed, but mainly it's just one bass track. It's possible Mieszko used a number of mikes tracking the bass on several channels to mix it together, I can't remember. / Anders

Redan? CD:n har jag aldrig (officiellt) sålt och vinylerna gick snabbare än blixten. / Anders

Don't believe I've heard them. / Anders

Aldrig numera. Alla som beställer får personliga mail när paket postats. / Anders

1. No.
2. No, that's the work of Orion at Relapse. I made some suggestions for changes that he incorporated (mainly how the logo was displayed in the design). I'm anxious to see how it looks for real (if you have missed it - here's a link. / Anders

Normala, samma förhållande som tröjorna. / Anders

Det har funnits kepsar. Flera gånger. Problemet ligger i att det har varit svårt att hitta riktigt bra sådana. Unrest Records har gjort Nasum kepsar som ska vara schyssta - mina ex har fastat hos Rugge/RGTE så jag vet inte hur de ser ut. / Anders

I am a fan of the organic, real drumsound. If you can't hear it, listen more carefully. / Anders

Thanks for the support. Well, try to post some "looking for a drummer"-notes in the local record and music stores. It's a start. / Anders

I probably have too many band shirts for my own good. Current "other band" favorite is the Converge hoodie I bought during the Coldworker tour and current Nasum favorite is the "Bugs" sweatshirt. Always loved the design and it works really good on the sweatshirt. / Anders

Tack för det. / Anders

Är det dominerande blastbeats är det grind. Lite enkelt sagt. / Anders

Actually Nasum never hooked up with Unrest, they hooked up with us via Relapse. I hardly know what else they have released... But any way you slice it, Mike is one of the coolest, most dedicated persons I've talked to in the recordbusiness. / Anders

Morbidity. / Anders

Ta en titt på sidan om några dagar så får du t-shirts till förbannelse... / Anders

Everything is in the "Grind Finale" booklet or on the website.
I'm really not a big fan of Cryptopsy, but there's no discussion that they are talented people. / Anders

This has been answered before. Soundlab is now the headquarters of Millencolin. Sometimes recordings are done there. It's very likely that the drums for the next Coldworker album will be recorded in Soundlab. / Anders

That's just a guitar thing. / Anders

I guess you mean "I see lies"? It was a guitar cable pressed against a metal chair. It's true! See the Track by track for further info. / Anders

The "too hard to play live"-some were those that basically were impossible for Mieszko to sing and play at the same time. As we never worked on lyrics and song rhythms during the creative process, only during the recording process, some songs ended up with song arrangements that were only doable in the studio. / Anders

Kommentarfunktion kommer eventuellt i framtiden. Vi får se.

Just nu ligger vi lågt med de nya låtarna och tar upp tråden i juli efter turnén. Vi har sju låtar skrivna, några komplett med texter, så det går framåt.

Jag har goda förhoppningar på nya Smashing Pumpkins. "Tarantula" tycker jag är en helt okej låt, lite old school blandat med Zwans positiva anslag. Billy Corgans soloskiva är min största skivbesvikelse någonsin, så SP:s nya lär ställa allt till rätta igen. / Anders

1. I'd say that I am most satisfied with the vocals on the "Regressive Hostility" recording (from which "Dis sucks" came from). On the following two albums that I sung on there were so many tracks that the vocals only became "good" the first takes.

2. Again, I'd like to point out a complete recording rather than some specific tracks, and it that case I think it was the "World in turmoil"/"The black illusions" session as it was the first time I sung for Nasum. The result is so so but it was quite fun to complete the songs with vocals. As a result I lost my voice for a week, as described in the "Grind Finale" booklet. / Anders

1. I get the occational cover song every now and then but I don't know anything about any tributes or cover bands.
2. Yes, I have a beat up old school skateboard in the attic somewhere. It has not touched ground in quite a while... / Anders

Not on the album, but he played on a few other tracks from the "Helvete" session, released on the "Grind Finale" 2xCD/4xLP. / Anders

I took lessons for eight years when I began drumming at age 10. To answer the other question I need to know what kind of balance you mean. But generally speaking I do not have any good advise at all, but focusing and practising! / Anders

Ja, det är helt bisarrt vilken line-up det är. Personligen är jag idagsläget mest sugen på Machine Head eftersom jag torskat rejält för "The Blackening", men givetvis lockar Mastodon något enormt. Men jag kommer att göra mitt bästa för att se Korn, Cannibal Corpse, Mayhem och lite Earth Crisis. Och kanske Slayer.
Synd att jag inte blir kvar hela festivalen. Hade varit kul att hänga med Napalm Death och spana in Immortal och - förstås - Neurosis... (Converge kommer jag att se vid andra tillfällen under turnén).
Secrets of the Moon har jag inte hört. Tack för tipset. / Anders

Thanks, see you at Hellfest then! / Anders

Kan bli en ny variant av någon gammal (dvs färgförändringar, typ av plagg etc). Har inte riktigt bestämt mig än. / Anders

It's a mailorder only 7" so I guess you have to buy something to
get it! / Anders

Jag KOMMER att göra nya Nasum-tröjor i sommar. Jag lovar! / Anders

Two questions, one answer: No idea. / Anders

Så vitt jag ser det så finns det nog inget utrymme i Örebros konsertliv för en spelning innan sommaren. Massor med jox på gång.

Den andra frågan var dock jävligt dum. / Anders

Bitterheten är kanske inte helt på blodigaste allvar... :)
Men ändå: jag har varit arrangör tidigare i livet och det är inget jag tänker plocka upp igen. Det finns massor av duktiga arrangörer i stan som gärna får sköta den biten. / Anders

Fortfarande en uppgift för en arrangör. / Anders

Ser jag ut som en arrangör? / Anders

Det finns inga texter och tabs finns det nog inga heller. / Anders

Not really. It's a Coldworker, Antigama, Pig Destroyer split for Relapse's mailorder. Our track is the bonus from the Japanese version of "The Contaminated Void". Don't know how exclusive the other bands material is. / Anders

Yes, it's "grind" ("fun-zai") in Japanese. / Anders

Never heard of them. Funny name though. / Anders

"GRIND Finale", gosse "GRIND"... Vinylen gjordes från samma mastring (dvs min hemmagjorda sådan) som CD:n. / Anders

Get hold of "Grind Finale" and you'll know. / Anders

The nature of the question usually indicates which Anders it's for. But "Anders" is usually me, and "Bertilsson" the other Anders. / Anders

Den blir säkert fin. / Anders

Kommer i juni. / Anders

I honestly have no idea. I think the blast tempo is pretty even on all tracks. Live a few songs usually was sped up on purpose, mostly on the closing blast part. / Anders

Nej, det är inte aktuellt. Jag står för det givetvis, men det är som sagt inte aktuellt att ta upp igen. / Anders

I've been "plugged up" for many years. I always carry earplugs on me. No major tinnitus yet. / Anders

Rickard Alriksson, originaltrummisen sjunger på de första 66 låtarna. När det gäller den andra frågan så hade det berott på vilket skick han hade befunnit sig i. Om han t.ex hade dragit på sig liknande skador som hans flickvän så hade det troligen varit slut på Nasum som turnérande band. / Anders

It's pretty much explained in the "track by track" (see the discography section):

4. No Paradise for the Damned

- This is the only rerecording of a released track we've done for any of our albums. We didn't plan to record it, it just happened. We had talked about adding this song - originally from the Abstain split - to our liveset but never managed to really pick it out from the badly played and badly recorded original release. But somehow we came to talk about it during the "Shift" session and I went home and pushed myself to finally pick it out. So I did it and we recorded it, but it never made it into the liveset anyway.

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Apart from that I think the song added a feeling of the old days, a more straight on grindcore song among the more modern songs we wrote. / Anders

Någon gång ska vi väl komma dit. / Anders

Is June 22 soon enough for you? / Anders

Rage without the machine is the old metal band, right? Well, I'd pick RATM then. / Anders

Vi sa vad vi tyckte och kände i texterna och sen kan jag väl erkänna att texterna var tillskruvade lite extra för effektens skull. / Anders

As far as I know they are all sold out. / Anders

Worst. Band. Ever. I must say that the first split is such a relentless recording that it remains my favorite just because of that. But it's all cool. / Anders

The overall sound got a little bit distorted in the mastering. / Anders

Yes, I played the drums! I'm totally sure that the snare that was used was Soundlab's DW snare. / Anders

Ja, det är så vanligt folk spelar in musik... Skämt åsido, ett par partier är inspelade till klick, till exempel mittenpartiet i "Doombringer", slutet av "Worst case scenario" och något mer kanske. Några låtar på "Helvete" spelade jag in utan någon slaskgitarr, alltså bara trummade. / Anders

Mieszko was huge gamer. One of his last private projects were creating music for videogames. It sounded really cool actually so I'm pretty sure that his music would have been picked up by some game company. / Anders

Hm... he says "Mr Anders Jakobson on the drums", maybe the "Mr" part makes it sound like "Mitch". Mitch didn't join us on stage until after the Terrorizer song though. / Anders

Never heard any of the bands you mention. You know, I don't only listen to grindcore just because I've played in a grindcoreband. / Anders

Yes, the intro was great, but the rest of the song wasn't, which is why it wasn't picked to end up on the CD. As the song was permenently discarded (at that point), I believe I tried to use the intro during the song writing of "Helvete" but never managed to work it into a song. Or perhaps I forgot about it? / Anders

Never heard about them, but they sound cool. / Anders

As far as I know there are no tabs whatsoever from "Shift" available somewhere and don't know that riffs anymore so I can't write them down.

The tuning was "drop-A". / Anders

Ex-Nasum might do something again in the future but there are no plans for it at this point. Maybe it will happen, maybe it won't. / Anders

Bla bla... this is old news that I've commented on a few times already. Look at the previous answers.

(ps We actually will...) / Anders

I've heard the "Miasma" album and it was pretty good. / Anders

Might happen, might not happen. It's not of any priority for me right now to handle old merchandise. / Anders

It was Orion at Relapse who did that. / Anders

The question was about song writing, in an abriged version something like this:

Q: How did you write songs for Nasum? As I've understood it you didn't collaborate but wrote your own songs. Or did some songs emerge from jams? How is the average way you write a song? Any other tips for song writing and creativity?

And my unabriged reply:

A: Mieszko used to leave some room for jaming when it came to the arrangements of the songs, and sometimes a song was born in the spur of the moment. Generally speaking I am not a fan of creating in the rehearsal room - you can be creative there, but to stand and try to come up with things from scratch is a waste of time.

For the Coldworker album everyone contributed with riffs and then we pieced it together, but now we have begun writing more on our own which is a result of us finding our collective style. So my song writing is pretty much in the same way as in Nasum, with the obvious differences (and I'm not really meaning musically).

Most of my riffs emerge when I pick up the guitar as I watch tv or something. You play a little and all of a sudden something resembling a riff is there, and then you polish it until the form settles. In connection with this usually another riff appears as a follow up and then you start to feel what it is - a verse, a chorus, an intro?

After a while you have a few combinations of riffs that might be pieced together to a song, or it becomes multiple songs, or you realise that you can combine two riffs and make something more exciting out of it.

And so it goes. The last year I've picked up the habit of writing down every riff I make not to lose them. The song writing in Coldworker consists of all of us sending recorded riffs and tabs to eachother so everyone can try it at home to make us more effecient on location. It's become a cornerstone in our way of working.

I think about music a lot and now and again ideas are born in my head that I then have to try and "pick out" on the guitar. The Coldworker song "Return to Ashes" is an example of that. Among the new songs we're writing right now there is a part that I first wrote on the drums. I sat drumming through the song as long as it was written and then continued with a slightly strange 2/4 backbeat with some accents and stuff and then went to the guitar to figure out how the riff should be played. It ended up a very good and odd riff, but I think that that method of writing only works when you have a drumpart that is out of the ordinary.

My best tip is to document yourselves as much as possible. You have to have the opportunity to listen to your songs objectively without playing at the same time. I.e. a rehearsal or a simple demo is a must for my song writing right now. A song is rarely finished once you've played it through and feels that it's alright. It's a first draft and there are always things to improve.

Good luck with the song writing - to be creative is the best thing I know! / Anders

Hm, they were OK, but not really something I'd listen to everyday. / Anders

Mieszko brukade lämna lite uttrymme för jammande när det gällde arrangemangen på sina låtar, och någon enstaka gång föddes väl en låt i stunden så att säga. Generellt sett är jag inget fan av att försöka skapa i replokalen - man kan vara kreativ i repan, men att stå och hitta på grejer från scratch är lite slöseri med tid.

Till Coldworker-plattan var det mycket så att alla bidrog med riff och så pusslade vi ihop det, men nu har vi börjat skriva mer individuellt vilket hör samman med att vi fått hum om vår gemensamma stil. Så mitt låtskriveri går till på ungefär samma vis nu som till Nasum med vissa skillnader så klart (och då menar jag inte direkt musikaliskt).

De flesta av mina riff kommer fram när jag plockar upp gitarren samtidigt som jag ser på tv eller något. Man spelar lite och plötsligt dyker det upp något som liknar ett riff och så putsar man lite på det tills formen sätter sig. I samband med detta brukar det alltid bli så att något mer riff dyker upp som fortsättning och så börjar man känna efter vad det är för något, vers, refräng, intro?

Efter ett tag har man ett par olika kombinationer av riff som kanske går att pussla ihop till en låt, eller så blir det flera låtar, eller så märker man att man kan kombinera ihop två olika riff för att få till något som känns lite mer spännande.

Och så där håller det på. Det senaste året har jag tagit för vana att skriva ned alla riff jag gör för att inte tappa bort dem. Låtskriveriet i Coldworker går till så att vi skickar inspelade riff och tabbar till varandra INFÖR ett rep så att alla kan prova på det hemma först och vara mer effektiva på plats. Det har blivit en hörnpelare i vårt arbetssätt.

Jag tänker mycket på musik och då och då föds idéer i huvudet som man sen får försöka "ta ut" på gitarren. Coldworker-låten "Return to Ashes" är ett exempel på det. Bland de nya låtarna vi skriver på just nu finns det ett parti som jag skrev på trummor först. Jag satt och trummade igenom låten så långt som den var skriven och fortsatte sen med ett lite halvudda 2-taktskomp i baktakt med lite accentueringar och jox och gick sen till gitarren för att lista ut hur riffet skulle gå. Det blev ett väldigt bra och udda riff, men jag tror att det skrivsättet enbart funkar om man har ett utstickande trumparti.

Mitt bästa tips är dock att dokumentera sig så mycket det går. Man måste ha möjlighet att lyssna på sina låtar objektivt utan att spela samtidigt. Alltså - en rehearsal eller enkel demo är ett måste för mitt låtskriveri just nu. En låt är sällan färdig när man repat igenom den och tycker att den känns bra. Det är första utkastet och det finns alltid saker att fila till.

Lycka till med låtskriveriet - att skapa och vara kreativ är det bästa jag vet! / Anders

Never seen it. It was a good show, very crowded and very sweaty. / Anders

Yeah, the numbers are up to date. / Anders

Ja, jag har glömt bort att ta med kameran till replokalen varenda gång jag tänkt på det (senast idag - onsdag), men jag ska dit i morgon så då får den följa med. Så då kommer bilderna snart! / Anders

I think they came out forced and "throaty" and not really how I wanted my voice to sound. I believe there were multiple retakes to patch together something that sounded good. / Anders

Hm... ja du, den kom ut för ganska länge sedan nu och har redan sålts här på sidan. Här är en svensk distro som säljer den. / Anders

Well, how about that. I'm not buying it though. / Anders

It was a lot of those types of parts already in the older material that we were unable to mirror live, so that was the basic thought behind adding a second guitarplayer. / Anders

Sure, it's a pretty distasteful t-shirt never the less. / Anders

OK, this is the last "top 5/favorite" something-question that I'll answer for a while. Enough is enough, OK?

How about:
Napalm Death - "Mentally murdered"
Terrorizer - "World downfall"
DropDead - first LP
Repulsion - "Horrified"
Carcass - "Symphonies of sickness"? / Anders

Well, it's not the Nazi swastika, but the old Hindu symbol (see this link), which makes sense since all the other symbols on the t-shirt are religious symbols, which really hasn't got anything to do with Carcass.

I guess you could send the link to Earache and they might report it or whatever. / Anders

Jo, Augustibuller brukar jag hamna på så det lär man väl se. Dessvärre måste jag säga att Discharge inte var så överdrivet spännande på Fury Fest 2004, men om de ställer sig på en scen bokstavligen 40 minuter hemifrån så är det klart att man spanar på dem. / Anders

"Mentally Murdered" and "Symphonies of Sickness".

Well, I haven't heard enough of The Berzerker to really speak about this subject, but from what I have heard I'd really like to hear the drumming without the triggers... / Anders

Hultsfred ser ju fint ut, men det blir ingen resa dit i år. I övrigt har jag inte kollat några bandlistor. / Anders

Yes, I realised that my answer was a little bit one-dimentional. What I meant was that when it comes to BLASTING bands the efforts of the human drummer is what does it for me. Anyone can program a beat and increase the BPM to the max, but what fun is that? When it comes to grind the thing that defines grind is the tempo of the drummer, so it you add a machine into the equation you have missed the point.

You are totally right - there are lots of very good bands with drum machines, like Ministry, Godflesh and a few others where the drum machine in a way is a defining part of the sound. In grindcore it isn't.

Sorry for being a little bit "short" in my previous answer. / Anders

I wouldn't say that. I doubt that Mieszko even knew about Lard in the first place. / Anderes

Obvious answer: ask a guitar player. The standard answer: it's not only the guitar that makes the sound - strings, pedals, effects, amps, technique etc have their part in the picture, but look for a guitar with EMG mikes would be my answer. / Anders

I only listen to bands that have a human being playing the drums. And my general idea about fast music is that a band is only as fast as the band as whole is. There are bands where the drummer explodes in short fast bursts while the others still play at normal speed. Sorry, but that isn't fast music.
So according to all this, I believe that the fastest band I listen to is Hate Eternal. A consistant fast speed through out the songs and the album. / Anders

Mieszko designed that cover but I believe it is a soldier kicking a corpse or something. / Anders

No, it's from a movie. I think I've answered this question before some time... / Anders

Ok...? But Nasum is dead and gone forever. Please accept it. / Anders

Jag orkar inte svara! / Anders

Yes, there are some truth to what Jon says. For exampel Birdflesh, Sayyadina, General Surgery and Jigsore Terror have the same drummer (at least live for most times). As for shows it really depends on the bill of the night. A sort of mixed bill generally draws a bigger audience. / Anders

If it had been a crime then AxCx would have been in jail a long time ago as they've always have had provocative songtitles. I think the freedom of speech allows them (and everyother band) to name their songs to whatever.

I don't know if anything happened with that "song" or not. I don't even care, but if it's released I guess the reactions from people will come quite natural. Not that Seth would care. / Anders

No worries. / Anders

Nä, det är den vanliga vinylutgåvan som kom ungefär samtidigt som CD:n (kanske någon månad senare). Den finns i grå, vit och genomskinlig vinyl. / Anders

Den "Helvete"-vinyl som är mest rare är den genomskinliga. / Anders

You'll find the lyrics on the Franky Lee album! / Anders

Yeah, it's rather a message than a question so I'm saving it for future use. / Anders

Ja. / Anders

This question was recently answered in Swedish, but here's a translation then:

Neither Urban nor I remembers the exact details from the recording as it wasn't documented in any way, but it's very likely that the recording was quite similar to "Helvete" when it comes to the guitars, i.e. Mieszko miked the guitars with a couple of mikes (I have a slight memory of only two for "Shift") and all guitars were dubbed (four tracks of guitars in total). / Anders

Hej du! Jag kan inte utläsa av din fråga om problemet enbart uppkommer när du grindar med högern på hihaten eller om det är hela tiden. Generellt sett tycker jag att det är lite knepigt att grinda på hihaten för det blir ju korsade armar och lite trängre med plats för vänstern. Om man grindar på riden så blir det en mer naturlig rörelse och i och med det enklare. Så funkar det om du grindar på riden?

I och med att du skriver att du klarar av att köra en virvel utan problem kanske du ska analysera hur din vänster funkar när du virvlar och jämföra det med grindandet. Flyttar sig armen på något sätt, slår du någon annanstans på trumman etc. Om du försöker hålla vänstern på samma sätt så ska det realistiskt sett inte vara några problem. Ett sätt att öva kan kanske vara att virvla som vanligt först och sen fortsätta och virvla med högern på hihaten.

Lycka till med problemet och ditt fortsatta grindande. / Anders

Yet again the fucked up tracklist on the "Industrislaven" MCD haunts me. When the CD was printed two tracks were merged into one, making half of the tracklist incorrect. The songs "Mer rens" and "Ditt öde" is track #8 on the CD when it should have been #8 AND #9. So the rest of the list is one wrong.

"Söndermald" is actually that slow instrumental track and the song you are asking about is called "Revolution II" (as it's a reprise of "Revolution"), and it was supposed to be a hidden bonus track, but it got it's own track #, thus making the tracklist "correct", when it comes to the number of titles and the number or tracks.

I can't quite remember why we did "Revolution II" in the first place. I think it had to do with the original having an improvised vocal part in the middle and we decided to do an all improvised take with a pitch shifter. Something like that. / Anders

I. Don't. Know. / Anders

Yes. / Anders

No, I will not do a drum video. It would in all honesty be the worst drum video ever. I've got nothing against those who do those videos. / Anders

Playing grind isn't much different from playing punk or metal or any other aggressive type of music. I think you should work on getting the basic guitar playing techniques into your system and then work on speed, muting techniques and so on. Good luck! / Anders

No, I never learnt German in school, but I guess I understand a few words. Swedish, Norweigan and Danish comes from the same language root as German, while Finish comes from a completely different root. / Anders

Not that hard in terms or switching instruments as I've been a drummer since I was ten and playing the guitar since I was 17. But it was a little hard to play grindcore, as I hadn't done that before. It was hard but I felt that I could do it so I did it.

You need to get "Grind Finale" and read all the stories about the recordings. / Anders

Quick and very hard... Well, I don't think any of the albums was born out of any "life changing" emotions. Perhaps "Shift", as the band was going through a lot of "shifts" during the making of it, but I can't recall that as a source of inspiration.

On "Human 2.0" there's a song called "Sometimes dead is better" which was my way of dealing with a broken relationship. That song and a couple more were directly inspired by personal things. / Anders

Nope. A reason to learn Swedish perhaps? / Anders

Jag är inte insatt i det anarkistiska Somalia eller det som rör det så jag har ingen åsikt.

Tvivlar på att Jesper eller Jon är kapabla att skriva bastabbar... / Anders

Lately it's become pretty uninteresting for me to have "favorite bands". I don't know why, but I just can't get together to sum up my entire life's worth of listening to music and come up with "a favorite metal band".

If there's any Nasum t-shirts distributed in Italy they are probably bootleg shirts. / Anders

Vet inte. / Anders

Titelspåret är ju på japan utgåvan, så lite svenska blev det ju... Även om just den låten inte har någon text.

Slump eller inte, spelar det någon större roll? Det finns ju t.ex mängder av death och black metalband som har skivtitlar på latin men knappast sjunger på det språket. Titlarna på våra skivor valdes med omsorg och inte alls beroende på låtarna på skivan.

Det är gott om grind i de låtar jag skriver till Coldworker även om det inte är några renodlade grindlåtar. Jag blir lite sugen ibland, men jag får utlopp för det jag vill göra i Coldworker så just räcker det. / Anders

The squeeking sound came from hitting the leftovers of the guitarstrings once they were tied to the tuning knobs. Of course there's a lot of effects on the sound, which made it sound "industrial" (and I think this inspirerd the title of the record). I think there are some "drumstick against guitarstrings" noise in there as well. I usually skip the intro when I listen to "Industrislaven" so I can't quite remember what's in it right now. / Anders

I don't see Nasum's music as brutal. That was never the intention, we were more out for a crushing effect than a brutal. But the recording I think sounds most brutal is the "World in Turmoil/The Black Illusions" recording - a 100% DIY raw brutal feeling.

Of the albums I think the one with the most brutal passages is "Shift". Like the opening riff/part of "Particles" or the pumping Bolt Throweresque part in "Circle of Defeat". Nasum never got more brutal than that. / Anders

Yeah, sounds great! / Anders

Bestial devastation it is! / Anders

Same to you. / Anders

You have to use your ears to pick out Nasum songs, because there aren't any tabs available, and the few that actually are available are not 100% accurate. / Anders

Varken jag eller Urban kommer ihåg några exakta detaljer från inspelningen och eftersom vi inte dokumenterade den alls finns det inget nedskrivet.

Sannolikt var det ungefär samma inspelningsförfarande gällande gitarrerna som vid "Helvete", dvs Mieszko mickade upp gitarrerna med ett antal mickar (något i mig säger dock att det bara var två mickar till "Shift") och gitarrna stereodubbades (alltså fyra gitarrer sammanlagt).

Till vissa slingor, halvdistade partier etc användes pluggen AmpFarm men alla kompgitarrer är "på riktigt". / Anders

1. On the later shows (= the European tour, some of the Swedish festivals and a few off dates) I played on my current DW set (as seen in the recording of "Helvete" diary. On the first European tour with Napalm Death and a few other shows I used my previous green Pearl set (as seen on this picture). Other than that I played on other bands sets or backline provided by the promotors.

2. I haven't listened to the Nasum albums in a while, but I actually listened to the Making of "Preview of hell" mp3 today and was surprised by the druming. Generally speaking I am not fully satisfied with any of the albums drumwise, compaired to the Coldworker album which is basically faultless (?), but to say something I say "Helvete". / Anders

Never ever. / Anders

Well, Millencolin is hardly the only band who uses melodies. But; being close friends since forever and co-existing as bands side by side it's possible that something rubbed off from one band to the other. Look at the studio documentary on the latest Millencolin disc and see how Larzon is grinding as soon as the camera is pointed at his direction... / Anders

I don't know of any filming of that show. / Anders

The hardcore band Propagandhi, I guess you mean...

Well, Propagandhi was and is one of the most political bands I know about and their enthusiasm really inspired me although I am not a political person in the same way they are. Plus, I really enjoyed the music and so did Mieszko. At that point "Rio de San Atlanta, Manitoba" was their rawest song so it was fairly easy to make a cover of it and sort of stay true to the original feeling of the song and presenting it for an audience who probably weren't aware of them, instead of doing another cover by a band that they already know about. / Anders

Never. / Anders

Nope. My copies are more or less sold. / Anders

Lite för mycket ploj för min smak, men okej. / Anders

It will not be posted on the site. Look for it elsewhere. / Anders

Nej. Jag har lite annat att tänka på just nu. / Anders

Ja och nej. / Anders

Inte än. Jag har den dock. / Anders

Well, you should check with Relapse how to do it properly, since they own the songs. / Anders

Sorry, no idea. Most Nasum tabs out there are mostly wrong anyway. / Anders

"Flesh for Frankenstein". / Anders

Friggin' in the riggin'... Well, the designs I've made are not licensed to any other t-shirt seller, so I guess you have to search the used markets for copies.
I think I will do another round of t-shirts in December but I don't know what designs as of now. / Anders

I don't anything about tributes. That's all the insight I can give you. / Anders

Well, "mangel" means "mangler", like the apparatus you need to get your sheets and stuff flat and nice. But in Sweden we (= extreme music fans) use "mangel" as a description of how good, rough, extreme and noisey something is. I can't translate it to one good English word. It's like you're mangled by a wall of sound. So you are getting mangled by some "mangel" from Örebro.
The "Örebromangel" title is of course comes from a classic Swedish hardcore tape called "Stockholmsmangel" wíth some of the prime hardcore bands of the 80's Stockholm scene. / Anders

Som framsidan på plattan. / Anders

Well, it's relesed by a Canadian label so it will be available in the US. Relapse will have 100 copies in their webshop in a near future. They will probably have a more resonable price for American buyers. The postage rate is pretty much insane here.
The vinyl has the color black, the only true vinyl color! / Anders

Jag vet inte exakt, men jag tror att de kommer att vara ganska tajta kepsar. De skulle komma i två storlekar, S/M och L/XL. De tidigare kepsar vi haft har inte varit några höjdare. / Anders

Faktiskt är det kepsar på gång genom Unrest Records, men jag vet inte riktigt när de kan dyka upp. / Anders

I will deal with the merch in December, but I have yet not decided what to reprint. / Anders

People are asking me this all of the time but so far nothing has happened. / Anders

Låter schysst! Lite svårt att höra riffen, men grymt trumspel. Men om ni ska kalla er "grindcore" får ni har lite högre blastratio i låtarna... / Anders

Doktor Kosmos. / Anders

Lite låtar, kanske någon 7" eller så. Jag vet inte. / Anders

För RGTE? Nä. / Anders

Jag måste ju säga att debuten, och då snackar jag splitten med Vaginal Massaker, är en riktig klassiker. Råare än så kan det inte bli.
"Sickening bliss" är cool, lite råare än de senaste albumen, men ändå i samma klassiska RGTE-anda. Två låtar var med i det senaste livesetet jag körde med dem.
Apropå RGTE så ser det ut som de kommer till Örebro i början av december och spelar in några låtar i min replokal. / Anders

Tack. Undrar hur fan det gick till? / Anders

Jag lärde väl känna Rugge någon gång 1992-93 tror jag det var, och Urban stött man på när de var här och spelade fast vi lärde inte känna varandra på allvar förrän han började provspela med oss 2003.
Regurgitate är bra så det är inte enbart en god gärning. / Anders

Well, the band was around for 12 years or something which could explain the amount of songs written. But, yes, we wrote whole songs and hardly ever jammed or wrote stuff on the spot in the rehearsal room. / Anders

Necrony was the name of the band. While in Nasum I wasn't really that keen on talking about my previous band, especially since there was huge missunderstanding about Necrony evolving into Nasum. That was very not true.
And I hope that forum post is dated 2004 because "last year" we were in Tampere, was in 2003. / Anders

Yes, it's a clip I can't have on nasum.com due to copyright reasons, but if it's on YouTube it's ok. Too bad YouTube fucks up the quality and too bad the original file is very out of sync. / Anders

Inte direkt. Kolla schemat på merch-sidan. / Anders

Konstig fråga, man kan ju inte skrika lågt. / Anders

Japp. / Anders

Lite svårt att höra vad som händer, men det låter ganska coolt. Får lite Converge-vibbar stundtals och det är aldrig fel. / Anders

Jag vet inte hur det blir faktiskt. / Anders

Jo. / Anders

Knappt. Det är rätt tunt i hyllorna... / Anders

Well, good luck with your project! / Anders

Goddamnit, Nasum quit due to the obvious reasons, please respect it. Life goes on. / Anders

Bass gear...? I have no fucking clue. / Anders

En månad till release uppskattar jag. / Anders

I think the title "World in turmoil" says it all. Never liked or listened to Bathory. / Anders

No, it's just that I don't see the point in doing Nasum songs with any other band than Nasum.
I only do deep vocals on "World in turmoil", all the other vocals are Mieszko's.
Lucky you, I had a translation of that song:
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A WORLD WITHOUT HOPE

Our lives have no meaning, our seed gives no crop
I have thought so many times that we might as well just die

Show me a human, show me one happy soul
Show me a truth that isn’t blackened

Our children have no future, our seed gives no bread
I have thought so many times that we might as well just die

Tell me how many people suffers on this earth
How can you feel hope when the only thing that awaits is death?
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Pretty depressing shit! / Anders

Absolutely not. / Anders

Nej, de spelade aldrig in den. Det var däremot den låt de (= Shane) tänkte att de skulle spela in i utbyte mot vår "Unchallanged hate". Hade varit enormt stort om de hade gjort det, men tyvärr. / Anders

Det var Mieszko som var spelnörden. / Anders

Att det inte blev någon samtidigt med de andra berodde på att det var så många vanliga vinyler kvar då, så det blev en intressekonflikt. Om det ska bli någon bildvinyl så är det något som Burning Heart, No Tolerance och GMR får ta ställning till i första hand. Känns lite som om tåget har gått, men man vet aldrig. / Anders

Nej, men i och med att det inte direkt kryllar av spelställen i Örebro kan man dra slutsatsen att när det blir dags för en spelning så lär det bli där. / Anders

1. Omöjligt att svara på, men nya "Smear Campaign" är riktigt, riktigt bra.
2. Är inte det oundvikligt? / Anders

Answers:
1. Soon!
2. I already do.
3. eBay? / Anders

Någon centimeter extra här och där. / Anders

Let's hope for a visit to Poland in the future! / Anders

Ärligt talat så ser jag inte poängen med en sådan film över huvud taget. Men om du ändå tänker göra den kan du väl ändå välja en låt som Mieszko gjort. "Hets" har han inte gjort. / Anders

Exhale and Splitter are cool bands. They keep the Swedish grind going! / Anders

Tröjan är officiell, men det var Poserslaughter som tryckte upp den. Vi gjorde endast en vit tröja med "Mucu-Purulent..."-omslaget. / Anders

I honestly don't think there will be a picture disc of "Shift", but I hope so, but at the moment it feels very unlikely. / Anders

OK! / Anders

We never got to play in Poland when the band existed. Too bad, I've heard many good things about the Polish fans. / Anders

Det är sant att hampa är en resurs som skulle kunna användas i olika industrier, men jag undrar om det skulle funka i realiteten eller om den fria odlingen bara skulle leda till mer drogtillverkning?
Har inte lyssnat på Pig Destroyers "Terrifyer"-platta. / Anders

Well, the "Human 2.0" recording was quite fucked up even before the mastering so it's really no wonder the unused songs from that session sounds crappy too.
My mastering work on "Grind Finale" was more a matter of adjusting the output volume from one session to another and also adjusting the EQ slightly so the overall sound became more even and not a direct transfer from the original sources. A more "professional" masterer would have worked more with the stuff but I didn't feel that it was necessary to put a lot of money into such demanding work. / Anders

No. / Anders

Låter inte som du blivit bestulen utan att du har en jobbig polare som behöver läxas upp! Hälsa på han, ta med trumpinnar och grinda som fan på han! / Anders

More info will come soon. / Anders

Ingen aning. / Anders

Jag fick den plattan häromdagen och har inte hunnit lyssna på den än. / Anders

How about these bands?
Gadget
Sayyadina
Splitter
Regurgitate
Rotten Sound / Anders

Yes, but you have to clear it with Relapse first. relapse@relapse.com / Anders

"Under the black soil" och "Forensickness". Samma som senare släpptes på bild-10". / Anders

Inte speciellt. / Anders

Dom tycker jag om. / Anders

Just do it, I can't really explain the technique (especially since I didn't sing it). / Anders

You sing in one way, and then in the other, and then in a third way on the chorus. / Anders

Jag fattar likheten, men det är inte samma riff. / Anders

Not very likely, but I am not ruling out another session in the future. / Anders

Alla andra band har nog med sitt eget material så det finns inte behov för att plocka in Nasum-låtar, och skulle någon i Coldworker lägga fram den idén skulle jag säga nej på en gång. / Anders

The font is called "Crass" (as was the shirt). It's a free font that shouldn't be hard to find. Do a google search for it. / Anders

Spela i otakt är det väl ingen som vill göra? / Anders

And which side project was that? If it was the "Ex-Nasum" thing, it's still here. / Anders

Well, I have the ones that are on the Napalm Death/S.O.B. split 7". / Anders

Well, the updates will be fewer, but the end is not near. / Anders

Det enda jag kan erbjuda är cd:n som finns på merch sidan. / Anders

Multi-National Corporations. / Anders

"Flesh for Frankenstein". / Anders

Should working now. The link was fucked up. / Anders

Saken är den att bytet inte riktigt är fullbordat än... Jag hittade inte Rikard när jag skulle dra så jag gav min del av bytet till William och sa att Rikard får skicka Massgrav/Diskonto senare, och det har inte hänt än för jag har inte hunnit maila min adress... / Anders

I think I've sort of answered this before. / Anders

Obviously Gadget kick major ass (especially live) and "The funeral march" is great, although I sort of dislike the production slightly. I have not hear Misery Index's Nasum cover yet, but I am fucking dying to! I am so flattered! / Anders

Well, obviously there are no lyrics to that song. / Anders

Att äta djur är väl inte djurförsök... Skämt åsido - igen, alla är inte vegetarianer av samma skäl. Jag har lärt mig att uppskatta vegetarisk mat och äter det ofta, men jag behövde en annan sorts kost för att må bra och då slutade jag med den 100%-iga vegetariska dieten. / Anders

Yes, Mieszko was born in Poland, but lived most of his life in Sweden. / Anders

I've forgotten to write down my set up the last 4-5 times I've been near my cymbals, but now - finally...

Hihats: Zildjian K Custom Dark 14"
Left crash (my POV): Zildjian Z Custom Medium 18"
Right crash: Zildjian A Custom 20"
Ride: Sabian HandHammered Raw Bell Dry 21"
China: Sabian AAX Chinese 20"

There you go! They can be heard on "Shift" and that Munchen gig. In Osaka I played cymbals provided by the promotor. / Anders

Bam is down with d-takt alltså. / Anders

Det är i dagsläget inte aktuellt med några fler nytryckningar av Nasum-merch. Det som finns är det som finns. / Anders

Några ex kommer jag väl att sälja. / Anders

Well, someone died. / Anders

You are joking, right? / Anders

Well, first off - I have just recently started playing double bass for "real" (despite 23 years of drumming) as it was something I needed to add to my style in Coldworker. That said I am hardly the expert on the matter, but I have made some progression lately and I'd be happy to share it with you.
I recognise the sort of flaws you described: feets twitching and problems having the beats even in the same tempo. It's very frustrating.
The obvious solution is to practise as much as you can. I'm not into the "practise very slow" idea because you don't learn double bass to play slow. If it's slower than what you can accomplish with only one feet then what's the point? I think the thing is to find a tempo that feels nice and that you are comfortable playing and then practise in that tempo.
For me it was much easier to play double bass in 6/8 than in 4/4, so that's maybe something you can try aswell.
When I started to focus on really learning double bass I started practising at home by just putting a pillow on the floor and sit on a normal chair doing double bass motions with the legs to any sort of music. My girlfriend thought it was weird but I believe it helped.
Then it's just a matter of practising it on the drums. For me it's always easier to play to a good riff than just play a beat by yourself. So get a tolerant member of you band to play along!
When it comes to the heel up/down problem, I don't really know what to say. I think your body will tell you what technique suits you the best and then just go with it. I've recognised when I've studied myself during rehearsals that I tend to alter a lot between the techniques. I can actually say that at one point one feet was heel down and the other heel up so I guess my body is working on that.
Here is a great "foot technique 101" from Derek Roddy's forum. There's a lot of interesting things to read here along with some cool video clips. Have a look, get inspired and get going with the drums! Good luck! / Anders

Jadå, den var ganska vanligt förekommande under perioden som trio. Jag tror sista gången vi spelade den var i Turku 26/4 2003 då vi körde den som extra-extranummer helt orepad och då gick den ju rätt kasst. Vi brukade ofta köra den allra sist och då blev så att man la i en extra växel lagom till sista breaket.
Det finns två liveupptagningar av låten att lyssna på i de livekonserter jag nyligen lagt upp på Audio/Video-sidan. / Anders

Eller Tjo och Tjim som man skulle kunna skriva om det som. / Anders

I have never played grind to a metronome. / Anders

This one was better!.
Thanks for the link, I hadn't thought of YouTube as an source for Nasum clips. / Anders

Att publicera detta räcker väl? / Anders

Du har visst missat ett par bloggar. / Anders

Japp. Vinylen alltså, inte CD:n. / Anders

100% bootleg. Ser ut som skit också.
"Grind Finale" LP:n blir inte billig, men förhoppningsvis inte för dyr heller. / Anders

Jo just det.
Lite mer info. / Anders

Nope. / Anders

Good question. Well, I guess it has to do with the sizes of the files really. Avi with DivX is really good for compressing the files without losing the quality (too much). / Anders

1. En jävla massa djur och annat.
2. "Killen" (= jag) babblar om George Bush. / Anders

This page explains it all, but the design you want is not available. / Anders

I've been a fan of Meshuggah since before their first LP. I even did some distribution of their demo back in the days... Unfortunately I have not been too impressed by their latest records. I think they sound a little bit too experimental for my taste and I hope they will go back and do some proper songs on their next album. / Anders

Ja, så är det - Warhatesplitte: svart, vit, genomskinlig, cover-sjuan: gul, svart.
Dia Psalma... ja, vad ska man säga... Jag var kanske inget jättefan när det begav sig, men visst det är väl kul att de kör igen. Hörde lite inside information från deras Umeå Open-gig och det finns i alla fall inga rockstjärnedivaliteter i bandet.
Augustibullers höjdpunkt blir Mob 47 och inget annat! / Anders

Det är Mieszko som fick för sig att sjunga på skånska. Det är inte så konstigt egentligen då han bodde i Malmö när hans familj kom till Sverige, men jag antar att det egentligen är en liten blinkning till alla skånska råpunkband. / Anders

Yes, I heard the whole album, not more than once or twice yet, so I can't speak much about it. I've been playing "Vicarious" repeatedly since I got hold of that one and I think that one is a true killer. As for the album in total I must hear it many more times before really have an opinion but as a first reflection I have to agree with someone on the Relapse board who said that he wished they had rocked out more... / Anders

När det gäller CD:s så finns det bara de som finns listade på diskografisidan och de individuella sidorna. Jag har hört att det ska finnas en brasiliansk utgåva av "Inhale/Exhale" med två sekunder mellan varje låt (dvs knappast gjord från Relapses master...) men jag har inte sett den och kan inte svära på att den finns. Det är även möjligt att det finns fler bootlegs därute, men officiellt finns bara de som jag listat.
Vinylerna då... jag är lite osäker men jag tror "Inhale/Exhale" finns i gul och svart, "Human 2.0" i vit och svart, "Helvete" i grå, vit och genomskinlig och "Shift" i svart och röd plus picture discs på alla utom "Shift". Testpressar finns det säkert, jag har bara "Shift" på testpress.
Jag vet inte om det finns några Phobos-låtar på vift, men det är ju möjligt så klart. / Anders

Nasum hade ingen gemansam politisk tillhörighet. Vad vi tyckte individuellt är privat men man kan väl läsa sig till det mesta i texterna. / Anders

Det är bara att mangla, krångligare än så är det inte! Låter det schysst så är det schysst. / Anders

I use Evans G2 coated on my toms because the resonate very well with my DW drums. They last a long time and stay in tune so you don't have to care about that too much. / Anders

Det är en helt opolitisk låt baserad på boken "Desperation" av Stephen King. / Anders

Sorry, men jag tycker att ämnet är ganska irrelevant.
Det ska vara tyst på 44:an kl 22, så vi kliver väl på strax efter 21. / Anders

På G. på G? :) Japp, det har vi faktiskt. Mer info snart! / Anders

Man mår bäst av en varierad kost och vad den består av är upp till var och än. Det finns viktigare saker i livet än att fokusera på än vad folk äter och inte äter. / Anders

Du tar för givet att alla som är vegetarianer är det på samma grunder som du själv. Så är det inte. / Anders