Regurgitated blasts from the past

Posted: April 22, 2026 14:26:08 by Anders Jakobson

Last night as I was YouTubing myself to sleep a 20 year old clip came in my feed out of nowhere. It was from my first show as a session drummer for Regurgitate. I did a total of five shows with Regurgitate back in 2004 and 2006. The first four in 2004 between March and September as Jocke (the real drummer) had some back issues that made it really difficult for him to play and the fifth and final one was when he had to be present for the birth of his second child.

Anyway, this clip - albeit being uploaded in 2006 - is actually from the first show, the Just Killers - No Fillers II festival in Stuttgart. Other bands who played this night, internet tells me, were Waco Jesus, CxMxP, F.U.B.A.R., Gored, Isacaarum, Libido Airbag and Rompeprop.

This seven minutes long clip is obviously not the entire show, but quite a few songs any way. The quality is alright considering the age and I think my performance is alright to. I realize watching this many years later that Jocke played a lot of blastbeats on the hi-hat, which is something I seldom do, so I looked kind of twisted and tense blasting that way. I also had some notes on the floor next to the hi-hat to remember the songs.

Obviously, I could have rearranged the performance of the songs to fit my personal style better, but I went with the approach of doing it as close to the recorded versions as possible. I remember picking up a few ideas from learning some other drummers way of playing grind.

Other than that - what's up with that bunny thing on the wall?!

The other three 2004 shows I did with Regurgitate were at Hovstocksfestivalen in Huskvarna, Sweden, Uppsala Blodbad in Uppsala, Sweden and finally at Morbide Festspiele VII in Bischofswerda, Germany. At that festival Behemoth also played and I coined the word "gorepunkare" to describe the general attendee to this particular fest.

My final - I guess, things can still change… - show with Regurgitate was in Cologne, Italy at a festival called Grind Your Mother (!) and at that time I had started the first blog at nasum.com and wrote a lengthy report that I have located in the vault. I have edited out some passages and some of the images.

Weekend with Regurgitate
Originally posted July 12, 2006

This past weekend I did a short trip to Italy with the Regurgitate guys and played with them at the Grind Your Mother festival in Cologne (no, not the German one!). In case you didn’t know, I have done a few shows with Regurgitate before, back in 2004. I did four shows with them as their “real” drummer Jocke was recovering from back injuries. This time Jocke couldn’t do it as he is expecting his second child any day now. Congrats in advance!


The setlist was generally speaking the same one that I learned back in 2004 apart from a few songs that were changed to some old “Carnivorous Erection” and “Effortless Regurgitation of Bright Red Blood” songs that I hadn’t played before and also two songs from their upcoming album “Sickening Bliss”.

We rehearsed three times before the trip to Italy and we were sort of prepared for this show.

We went by Ryan Air from the Skavsta airport. Once in Italy Giovanni from The Spew Records, who arranged the festival, met us. In true Italian fashion he broke a few traffic laws taking us to the venue in Cologne. The club was really cool, of the type that I wished there would be more of in Sweden and in Örebro in particular.

This was on the Friday and our show was on Saturday so this evening all we could do was enjoy the company and the music, which wasn’t too hard for me as Napalm Death was playing. After hanging around in the hot backstage area for a while Napalm Death showed up and the hug-o-rama begun. I haven’t seen these guys since August last year so as always it’s a pleasure meeting four of the nicest people in the business.


Although Shane and I had “talked” via emails a few weeks ago he had totally forgotten that I would be there so was a little bit pissed that he hadn’t brought the new Napalm Death album with him so I could hear it. I, on the other hand, played a few rough mixes from the Coldworker album for Mitch and Shane who both gave it thumbs up. Shane proved to me why he is the grind god that he is by singing along one of the most complicated blast riffs on the Coldworker album after just hearing one round… I can’t understand that guy!

Eventually Napalm Death went on stage and shredded as always. The set was very similar to last year’s. b<>Barney dedicated “The World Keeps Turning” to me (which I think is the first time ever that someone dedicates a song to me!) and of course asked the classic “Har du duschat?” question from stage. Very funny, and very tour of 2000!

At some point when I discussed riffs and songs with Mitch he said something that was the most flattering thing I have never heard in my life. He said: “I said to Shane during the recording ‘I wonder what Anders will think of the album’”. Imagine that: one of the bands that you like the most in the world values YOUR opinion that much that they discuss it in the studio?! I have never felt so proud and important at the same time. An amazing feeling!

Unfortunately they had to leave and we had to leave to the apartment we were sleeping in, which was a 30-40 minute ride away to the town of Sulzano. Our driver this time was a fucking maniac that basically risked our lives driving like a madman. I didn’t think that was funny. Round-abouts are called that because you go ROUND them, not OVER them.


In the darkness of Sulzano this night we couldn’t understand much of the location where the apartment was but in the morning it was almost like we had traveled to a little paradise. The apartment was just next to a lake in which there was a mountain island, about 600 meters high. Amazing! We went for a walk in the surroundings taking photos. Then we went back to the apartment for a few hours of just slacking and talking until Giovanni came and picked us up and drew us to Cologne and the venue again.

Back at the venue we put up the Regurgitate merch and looked at some bands like Fleshless, Machetazo and Avulsed. Machetazo really stood out with their old school grindcore. It was really cool and the guys looked bad ass on stage. I liked it!

At some point we went to eat at a restaurant. Giulio the Bastard from Crippled Bastards went along. After that it was almost time to get on stage and play some grind. A guy called Jacopo had brought a great set of cymbals for me to use. Jacopo went on and on about how it was such a honor for him to lend them to me, which was a little bit embarrassing… I mean, I was the guy who should thank him and not the other way around.


So we played our set and the crowd, albeit being quite fewer than on the Friday, seemed to like it. I fucked up one song good because I couldn’t hear the guitar and in another one I did a few mistakes that perhaps wasn’t that obvious but anyway… But it felt quite good to play outside of Sweden again and I hope to return with Coldworker soon!

Almost still drenched in sweat we had to go back to the apartment basically at once after the show so we got there, talked for a while before we went to sleep.

On Sunday we had almost the entire day off until we needed to go to the airport and ultimately back to Sweden. Our main plan this day was to go to a restaurant next to the lake that we had spotted the day before. After the meal we more or less when straight back to the apartment. It was very hot and we were really tired and after slacking and sleeping for a few hours Giovanni came again and took us to the airport. And eventually we got back to Sweden.