"Grind Finale" Timeline 2000-2006

2000
• Sometime during the year - The idea of a non-album collection emerges. First titel suggestion: "Recycling Rules Supreme"

2001
• February 27 - Andy Hozner of Relapse starts nagging about the collection.
• Early March - Nasum talkes to "Human 2.0" artist Robert Ahlborg about doing the artwork.
• March 28 - First draft of the musical content. Second title suggestion: "Grind Your Mind".
• April 23 - Robert withdraws from the artwork duties.
• May 1 - Changes the title to "Blueprints for Extinction", originally suggested by Andy Hozner.
• June 13 - First email conversation with Jonathan Canady regarding the artwork.
• August 30 - First email conversation with Paul Romano who has been asked to work with the artwork. Paul sends a few sketches.
• September 18 - All original DAT-tapes has been called back from different sources, stuff ready to be sent to the mastering firm Digitalfabriken.
• Early November - First suggestions for artwork from Paul Romano. Not exactly what Nasum wanted, but artwork is (against Nasum's wish) used in the "Contamination 5.0" CD.
• December 15 - First draft of the liner notes
• December 17 - Scheduled day for mastering. Doesn't happen.

2002
• August 29 - Nasum decides to postpone "Blueprints for Extinction" until 2003 to concentrate on writing, recording and releasing "Helvete".

2003
• Mid November - Mieszko starts mastering the available digital material in Soundlab Studios. Isn't finished.

2004
• Late February - Two sessions are transfered from vinyl to CD. The guy who does it takes forever to ship the CD to us.
• December 9 - Relapse art department takes over the project.
• December 15 - Jonathan Canady from Relapse's art department gives his view of the artwork status.
• Late December - A date is planed to finish the mastering in Soundlab. Doesn't happen.
• December 26 - Mieszko Talarczyk dies in the Tsunami Disaster.

2005
• Early March - Anders starts working seriously with finishing the collection. Decides to change the title to "Grind Finale". Has grand plans to include rehearsal songs and live takes and maybe a DVD.
• March 15 - Anders visits Soundlab Studios to locate all the source material in Soundlab's computer. Kills the plans for rehearsal and live stuff and the DVD.
• March 30 - Albert Mudrian is asked to write a foreword to "Grind Finale". Replies: "I would be honored to write the foreword".
• April 1 - All songs are transfered from Soundlab Studios's computer with the help of Dan Swanö.
• April 9 - Dan Swanö teaches Anders how to use Cubase to master the songs.
• May 1 - Anders sends introduction, details and linernotes to Glenn Sykes (Regurgitate) for proofreading. Recieves lots of corrections the same day.
• May 7 - New email conversation with Jonathan Canady regarding the artwork.
• May 13 - Anders submits introduction, details and linernotes, and lyrics for the booklet.
• May 16 - Masters are sent to Relapse.
• June 1 - Albert submits first draft of the foreword, entitled "Grindcore 2.0: A Nasum Eulogy".
• June 2 - Jonathan sends pictures of Tool's "Salival" boxset as a packaging suggestion for "Grind Finale".
• June 3 - Albert submits final draft of the foreword.
• June 27 - First suggestion for the front cover by Orion Landau. Needs a little more work.
• July 21 - Relapse says US release date for "Grind Finale" is October 25.
• July 25 - The front cover is finished!
• August 5 - First suggestion for the booklet by Jonathan Canady. Is OK'ed at once.
• August 25 - The artwork is finally completely done. Both Anders and Jonathan feel bad that the project is over.
• Late September/Early October - Relapse Japan translates all linernotes, comments and lyrics for "Grind Finale".
• Early October - Relapse announces a new release date as of November 11 (US) and 21 (Europe) due to "Catastrophic level of problems with the printing".
• October 20 - Printer send sample booklet to Relapse. Another fuck up, Relapse says: "They had printed the entire 80page booklet on the wrong paper stock, which is super thin, and makes the book only about half the size it should be. As a result, the spine would have been way bigger than the booklet, and the whole thing just would have looked bad, as it would have been incorrect." The whole stock needs to be reprinted and since other releases are planed, Relapse sets the new release dates as of January 24 (US) and 30 (Europe).
• November 23 - The final album is in Relapse's hands.
• November 25 - Anders gets the first copies of "Grind Finale".
• December 26 - A copy of "Grind Finale" is placed at Mieszko's grave.

2006
• January 24 - "Grind Finale" is released in the US.
• January 30 - "Grind Finale" is released in Europe.