GRIND FINALE
2xCD, 4xLP
Released by:
• Relapse Records, USA (CD - World)
• Unrest Records, Canada (LP - World)
Recording info:
• Recorded 1993-2004.
• Compiled and mastered April 2005 by Anders Jakobson.
Mp3's:
• No Time to Waste (1 MB)
• Reasons? (0,4 MB)
• Re-Create the System (0,7 MB)
• See the Shit (With Your Own Eyes) (1,1 MB)
• My Fear (0,9 MB)
• Stalemate (Napalm Death cover) (1,4 MB)
• Revolution (0,9 MB)
• Cut to Fit (1,1 MB)
• Fantasibilder (1,2 MB)
• Den Mörka Tiden (1 MB)
• Zombie Society (0,8 MB)
• Our Revolution (1,2 MB)
• Dreamland (1,4 MB)
• Låt Inte Asen Styra Ditt Liv (1,4 MB)
• Fuck the System (0,8 MB)
• Hate Division (1,4 MB)
• Bullshit Tradition (Drop Dead cover) (0,7 MB)
• Stolen Pride (1,3 MB)
• Krossa (1,9 MB)
• Understand: You are Deluded (1,6 MB)
Links:
• Lyrics
• Timeline
About the compiling and mastering...
"Grind Finale" was a work in progress for such a long time, and by the end of 2004 Mieszko and I was supposed to finish it once and for all. Unfortunately we didn't have the time to do it before Mieszko left for Thailand, and then... well, you know what happened.
In March of 2005 I started to work on compiling the collection. I asked Dan Swanö to help me with it and he came in installed some software in my computer and incouraged me to do it myself. We went to Soundlab to transfer the original sound files from their computer and basically started from scratch. Swanö held a short crash course in what to do with the stuff to first and foremost get an even sound through out the compilation. Although "Grind Finale" covers 15 recording sessions, there were more than 15 sources of the material.
Once I got a hang of what to do, the work was done without any major problems. I did a lot of mixes and listened to them in different stereos and such until I felt that I was done. Swanö then did some final adjustments increasing the output volume among other things.
About the title...
This collection has had a lot of different titles during the years. At one point, maybe the first suggestion, we wanted to call it "Recycling Rules Supreme", a political statement and also a funny title since we recycled old recordings. Then we progressed to "Grind Your Mind" which was a phrase we put on our "Human 2.0" t-shirts (paraphrasing Release's "Release Your Mind" t-shirt), that people seemed to like a lot.
When Relapse tried to get the ball rolling early 2001, employee Andy Hozner was set on the case and suggested the title "Blueprint for Extinction" as the title for the compilation. After some consideration we thought it was a great titel and went for it. But when Mieszko passed away I felt that the word "extinction" made the whole title very inappropiate and started to think of something new. I had totally forgotten about the first two suggestions and started to think of a play on words with "Grind" somewhere in there, and ended up with "Grind Finale" which was perfect since it would be the final (bigger) release from Nasum.
About the cover...
Since the compilation has had a lot of different title ideas there has been as many ideas for the cover and as many artists involved in the process. When the new and final title was decided, I decided to let Relapse's inhouse art department do it all, which was a wise decision since everything went very smoothly during the creative process.
A general idea that has been going through all the phases was to use artwork elements from the releases covered in the compilation as an inspiration, and I think Orion Landau who did the front cover got it pretty well.
About the vinylversion...
At first I was reluctant to do a vinyl version as most of the material on "Grind Finale" came from vinyl releases from the beginning, but as I was approached by Unrest Records from Canada it suddenly became more interesting. We discussed a few ways to transform the 2xCD to vinyl and to get the best result a 4xLP was my suggestion. In the end "Grind Finale" - the vinyl version became a monster of a release, bringing lots of "weight" to the project. The album was printed in 1000 copies and rapidly went out of print and remains a collectors item today.
Tracklist:
Disc one
1. Blind world
2. Think
3. Scarecrows
4. No Time to Waste
5. Total Destruction
6. Between the Walls
7. Left in a Dream
8. Uneventful Occupation
9. Reasons?
10. Disforest
11. Self Vilification
12. Red Tape Suckers
13. Re-create the System
14. Rens
15. Hurt
16. Corpse Flesh Genitals *
17. Sawder
18. A Look at Society
19. Fucking Murder!
20. Black Visions (Scarecrows II)
21. Escape
22. See the Shit (With Your Own Eyes)
23. Restrained from the Truth
24. No Chance
25. My Fear
26. Fur
27. A Game Played by Society
28. It's All About the Information
29. Smile When You're Sead
30. Blindfolded (By the Media)
31. Erased
32. Warfuck
33. No Chance (Extended Noise-remix Version) *
34. Cut to Fit
35. Forcefed Opinion
36. Domedagen
37. Left in a Dream
38. Distortion & Disinformation
39. Stalemate (Napalm Death cover)
40. Bag
41. Revolution
42. What's "Life"?
43. Think
44. Verklighetsflykt
45. Face Obliteration
46. Enough!
47. Dom Styr Våra Liv (Mob 47 cover)
48. Industrislaven
49. Löpandebandsprincipen
50. Cut to Fit
51. Fantasibilder
52. Distortion & Disinformation
53. Brinn
54. Krigets Skörd
55. Mer Rens
56. Ditt Öde
57. Ingenting Att Ha!
58. Revolution
59. Den Mörka Tiden
60. Forcefed Opinion
61. Domedagen
62. Dolt Under Ytan
63. I Helvetet
64. Skithus
65. Söndermald
66. Revolution II
67. World in Turmoil
68. The Final Confrontation (Scarecrows III)
69. The Dream
70. Zombie Society
71. Sheer Horror
72. Awake
73. En Värld Utan Hopp
74. End
75. As Time Goes By…
76. Our Revolution
77. Masqureade
78. Ripped
79. Rage
80. Law & Order?
81. Rise
82. Killed by Your Greed
83. Silent Sanguinary Soil
84. Evacuate the Earth
85. The Black Illusions
86. Disgrace
87. No Paradise for the Damned
88. A Change in Your Mind
89. Dreamland
90. Last
Disc two
1. Dis Sucks
2. The Leak
3. Eviscerated (By the Fiend)
4. Shambler
5. Lack of Ammunition
6. The Machines
7. Låt Inte Asen Styra Ditt Liv
8. Going Nowhere
9. Generation Ex
10. The Soil Bleeds Black
11. Hail the Chaos!
12. Fuck the System
13. The Spiral Goes Down
14. Shortcut to Extinction
15. Vows
16. Hate Division
17. Visions of War (Discharge cover)
18. Bullshit Tradition (Drop Dead cover)
19. Device (S.O.B. cover)
20. The Real (Refused cover)
21. Rio de San Atlanta, Manitoba (Propagandhi cover)
22. …And You Were Blind to What Lay Beyond the Horizon
23. Stolen Pride
24. Silent
25. Losing Faith
26. I Decline! *
27. Naive Ignorant Fucks! *
28. Obstacle *
29. The Political Structure is not What it Seems in the So Called Lucid View that Man has Upon Today's Society. What the Eye Sees is a Lie. *
30. A Bloodbath Displayed
31. God-slave America *
32. Supernova *
33. Shafted *
34. S.O.C.I.E.T.Y. (Home of the Dead) *
35. Tools of the Trade (Carcass cover)
36. Fear
37. Krossa
38. In Praise of Folly
39. Peace?
40. Falska tankar
41. Godmorgon, Idiotjävel
42. Understand: You are Deluded
43. Fear of the China Syndrome
44. Suicide
45. X Marks the Spot
46. The Flames of the Truth
47. Sticks and Stones
48. Dead Mirror
49. Helvete
50. A Civil Critique *
51. Damned Nation *
52. A Dead Generation *
53. Divine Intervention *
54. Fury *
55. The Unfathomable
Situation *
56. Unchallenged Hate (Napalm Death cover) *
57. DLTD
58. Gravar
59. Ingenting *
60. Until the Board Breaks *
61. Downwards *
62. Stealth Politics *
* = previously unreleased song or version
Disc one
1. Blind world
2. Think
3. Scarecrows
4. No Time to Waste
5. Total Destruction
6. Between the Walls
7. Left in a Dream
8. Uneventful Occupation
9. Reasons?
10. Disforest
11. Self Vilification
12. Red Tape Suckers
13. Re-create the System
14. Rens
15. Hurt
16. Corpse Flesh Genitals *
17. Sawder
18. A Look at Society
19. Fucking Murder!
20. Black Visions (Scarecrows II)
21. Escape
22. See the Shit (With Your Own Eyes)
23. Restrained from the Truth
24. No Chance
25. My Fear
26. Fur
27. A Game Played by Society
28. It's All About the Information
29. Smile When You're Sead
30. Blindfolded (By the Media)
31. Erased
32. Warfuck
33. No Chance (Extended Noise-remix Version) *
34. Cut to Fit
35. Forcefed Opinion
36. Domedagen
37. Left in a Dream
38. Distortion & Disinformation
39. Stalemate (Napalm Death cover)
40. Bag
41. Revolution
42. What's "Life"?
43. Think
44. Verklighetsflykt
45. Face Obliteration
46. Enough!
47. Dom Styr Våra Liv (Mob 47 cover)
48. Industrislaven
49. Löpandebandsprincipen
50. Cut to Fit
51. Fantasibilder
52. Distortion & Disinformation
53. Brinn
54. Krigets Skörd
55. Mer Rens
56. Ditt Öde
57. Ingenting Att Ha!
58. Revolution
59. Den Mörka Tiden
60. Forcefed Opinion
61. Domedagen
62. Dolt Under Ytan
63. I Helvetet
64. Skithus
65. Söndermald
66. Revolution II
67. World in Turmoil
68. The Final Confrontation (Scarecrows III)
69. The Dream
70. Zombie Society
71. Sheer Horror
72. Awake
73. En Värld Utan Hopp
74. End
75. As Time Goes By…
76. Our Revolution
77. Masqureade
78. Ripped
79. Rage
80. Law & Order?
81. Rise
82. Killed by Your Greed
83. Silent Sanguinary Soil
84. Evacuate the Earth
85. The Black Illusions
86. Disgrace
87. No Paradise for the Damned
88. A Change in Your Mind
89. Dreamland
90. Last
Disc two
1. Dis Sucks
2. The Leak
3. Eviscerated (By the Fiend)
4. Shambler
5. Lack of Ammunition
6. The Machines
7. Låt Inte Asen Styra Ditt Liv
8. Going Nowhere
9. Generation Ex
10. The Soil Bleeds Black
11. Hail the Chaos!
12. Fuck the System
13. The Spiral Goes Down
14. Shortcut to Extinction
15. Vows
16. Hate Division
17. Visions of War (Discharge cover)
18. Bullshit Tradition (Drop Dead cover)
19. Device (S.O.B. cover)
20. The Real (Refused cover)
21. Rio de San Atlanta, Manitoba (Propagandhi cover)
22. …And You Were Blind to What Lay Beyond the Horizon
23. Stolen Pride
24. Silent
25. Losing Faith
26. I Decline! *
27. Naive Ignorant Fucks! *
28. Obstacle *
29. The Political Structure is not What it Seems in the So Called Lucid View that Man has Upon Today's Society. What the Eye Sees is a Lie. *
30. A Bloodbath Displayed
31. God-slave America *
32. Supernova *
33. Shafted *
34. S.O.C.I.E.T.Y. (Home of the Dead) *
35. Tools of the Trade (Carcass cover)
36. Fear
37. Krossa
38. In Praise of Folly
39. Peace?
40. Falska tankar
41. Godmorgon, Idiotjävel
42. Understand: You are Deluded
43. Fear of the China Syndrome
44. Suicide
45. X Marks the Spot
46. The Flames of the Truth
47. Sticks and Stones
48. Dead Mirror
49. Helvete
50. A Civil Critique *
51. Damned Nation *
52. A Dead Generation *
53. Divine Intervention *
54. Fury *
55. The Unfathomable
Situation *
56. Unchallenged Hate (Napalm Death cover) *
57. DLTD
58. Gravar
59. Ingenting *
60. Until the Board Breaks *
61. Downwards *
62. Stealth Politics *
* = previously unreleased song or version
