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