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Unearthed poster: Nasum at The Shrine
Posted: January 12, 2026 10:56:23 by Anders Jakobson
A few years ago, I saw this poster on Instagram or something and wrote to the guy who posted it and asked for a copy of the image. Although we exchanged some emails I never got anything more than a low-resolution image. Until now, when I got the actual poster in the mail.
Historically speaking, this was the fourth Nasum show in Stockholm of a total of eight (suburbs included). It was held at The Shrine, October 25, 2002. The venue was this round building near Slussen in Stockholm, and it had had a number of different names during the years, most well-known was Kolingsborg. Now, Kolingsborg is very famous in Swedish metal lore as Messiah Marcolin of Candlemass reportedly once doom danced through the stage floor. Might be an urban legend, who really knows? Kolingsborg is also very famous in Swedish film history as the stand-in for the club "G" in the classic youth movie "G - Som i Gemenskap".
As you can see, the bill was a real smorgasbord of different bands all with punk as the common denominator. The mummified Henry Fiats Open Sore headlined, crust legends Skitsystem opened and hardcorerockers Nine played before us. An interesting mix for sure.
I have two very clear memories from this evening. One is that we premiered a brand new song before it was recorded. I think that's the only time that happened during the entire Nasum history. We – which at this point in time were Mieszko, Jesper and I – were working on what would become the "Helvete" album, and for some reason we chose to play one song live. It didn't have a name or any lyrics, and ultimately the song became the title track, which only ended up on the Japanese CD (still without any lyrics).
The other memory is from backstage. I was wearing my Hellnation t-shirt for the show, the one where they ripped off the classic Motörhead snaggletooth design with "Kentucky" at the bottom. That led to a discussion with the Nine guys as they were booked as the support act for a number of Motörhead shows after this show. "Maybe we should do a t-shirt like that", someone said (probably Benis). I don't know why that moment got stuck in my mind since then, but it really did!
Thanks to Robin Zander for sending the poster and unlocking some memories from nearly 25 years ago!
(Click the poster for a larger image)
Inhaled/Exhaled/Revived - new Nasum release
Posted: September 9, 2025 16:59:00 by Anders Jakobson
ANNOUNCING "INHALED/EXHALED/REVIVED" - AVAILABLE ON STREAMING NOW, PHYSICAL RECORD IN OCTOBER!
There is a brand new Nasum release available on streaming now and for pre-order of the physical release. It's a delayed 25th anniversary edition of "Inhale/Exhale", but it's not just another reissue, it's a stand-alone release with remastered songs, remixed songs and unreleased songs.
This is a project that has been going on for years. Many years. Back in January of 2022 I got hold of two of the three master reels for "Inhale/Exhale" and knew there were unreleased songs on them. I envisioned an anniversary edition as the 25th jubilee was coming up in May 2023, but it took some time to figure out how to make use of the reels and what to do with them. By the end of the year, I shipped the reels to Sveriges Ljudmigreringscentrum who were able to bake the tapes and do a high resolution digital transfer. Thankfully, there were no issues with the tapes, and I suddenly had the entire “Inhale/Exhale” recording in separate tracks. Not the entire recording though, as the middle reel containing a large chunk of the album was missing, but I had a lot of songs and two outtakes that never was mixed back in 1998.
As I didn’t have a complete set of songs, I couldn’t do a remix of the entire album but I could do some selected tracks and in December of 2022 I posted on the Nasum Facebook page asking fans to list their favorite tracks from the album. I got some kind of list from that, excluded the songs from the missing master reel, and added a few I wanted to have their and ended up with a selection of 18 songs including the two unreleased outtakes “Truth Fed Through a Tube” and “Need Some…”.
At some point, I had started a conversation with Relapse about doing something with this stuff and we quickly realized that a release in time for the 25th anniversary was impossible. I had an idea of letting several different people remixing the songs just to see what would happen, but it was cut down to just having one guy doing the remix, and after thinking about a few interesting persons I ended up handing the files to my old friend Dan Swanö. After all, the Fostex E-16 tape recorder that was used during the recording was his old machine so it made sense in many ways that Dan would be the one who would do this.
In what felt like just a few hours after he got the files, Dan sent me a test remix and I was blown away of what he was able to pull out from the old recordings. “Inhale/Exhale” had a pretty distinct sound and I thought that it was impossible to do something that felt new and up to date without re-sampling or re-amping the instruments. But Dan had a few tricks up his sleeve, and I could without hesitation ask him to go forth and remix everything.
I also sent the files for the song “Inhale/Exhale” to Henrik and Johan from Seven Trees, a local electronic band with a history as long as Nasum’s. Henrik was the one who gave me the gasmask couple image back in the 90’s and I had for a very long time envisioned an electronic, industrial remix of the song and Seven Trees provided that. The two different remixes of “Inhale/Exhale” bookends the second LP in the physical release of “Inhaled/Exhaled/Revieved”.
Dan Swanö also provided a remastering of the entire album including the four cover songs from the original LP and another unreleased song called “Dark Thoughts” that was mixed by Mieszko back in 1998 but excluded from the album. I had it on my advanced tape and that’s the source used as the song was on that missing master reel.
One more thing about remixing the songs… I know that some will say “that’s not what Mieszko would have wanted”, but I would say that it’s exactly what he would have wanted. Had he been alive and still working, he would gladly have given “Inhale/Exhale” another shot. Dan’s remix is done with respect and care.
All the remastering and remixing were completed during 2023. During the same time I started talking to an artist that’s been my friend for many years about doing the artwork. I had a strong wish that this should be treated as a separate release from “Inhale/Exhale” (and decided on the title “Inhaled/Exhaled/Revived” somewhere along the way) and therefor it needed new artwork. My thought was “What if 25 years have passed for the couple getting married in gasmasks? Where are they now? What kind of life do they have today?”
The artist started working but when I asked for updates I got only excuses and no images and then some more excuses and then… nothing. I got no replies to my emails and by now several years have passed and I still haven’t heard anything. It’s really weird and this project lost a lot of time on that. Perhaps as much as six months.
So, in August of 2024 I posted a vague request on the Nasum Facebook page looking for an artist for “a possible collaboration”. I got a whole bunch of portfolios and samples, most of them were really good, and did a first selection which later was cut down to a short list of two people. These two people got all the info and were asked to provide a concept in a few weeks. Interestingly, both came up with similar ideas based on my “what if” scenario and I ended up picking Shindy Rehaal who drew and painted the front cover for the album. The layout was later done in-house by Relapse.
The physical release is available for pre-order now to be released October 24. It’s a 2xLP in a few different color variations and a single CD. Both released have liner notes by myself, fellow Relapse artist Matt Harvey and writer Dom Lawson. The digital streaming version is out now on your service of choice.
As I said, this project has been going on for many years and a lot of people have been involved in it. Thanks to all of you!
And also, the other three albums in the catalog will be reissued in nice colored vinyl October 24 as well. Check them out
PRE-ORDER LINKS:
Relapse.com
Bandcamp.com
Unearthed footage: Nasum vs New Zealand
Posted: April 26, 2024 11:04:01 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
I recently got a YouTube link sent to me with ten minutes from the Nasum show in New Zealand. The footage was discovered on an old external hard-drive and then edited and uploaded to YouTube. It’s not the greatest footage but it’s a fun reminder of the 2012 farewell tour.
When I think of it, it’s amazing that playing grindcore has taken me and my friends all around the world. Who would have thought back in 1992 when Rickard and I started Nasum out of boredom that 30 years later I would spend less than 24 hours in a country literally on the other side of the world?
Going to New Zealand isn’t the easiest thing in the world. It isn’t next door to anything, not even Australia which mapwise seems close. In reality it’s quite a flight even from Australia but we figured that it was doable on the very weird part of the farewell tour that took us to four continents in two weeks. We had about a week in Australia doing five shows and then a quick stop in Auckland, New Zealand before doing a few days in Japan. That said, we didn’t bother to apply for any work visas for New Zealand in advance and we figured that we would just smoothly enter the country just like that.
Little did we know that airport/customs guys would object. If memory serves me right, some of us just went through the customs without any problem but then someone got questioned and all of us were called back. We quickly came up with a white lie that we had a layover on our way from Australia to Japan. When they asked what our band was called, we couldn’t really say the truth because it would be very easy to find out that Nasum would play in New Zealand the same day with just a simple web search. Jon came up with the solution and said that we were called Acursed, which is/was one of his older bands who are basically invisible on the Internet.
It all worked fine in the end and we entered New Zealand to “not” play grindcore… I also remember another detail from the customs and that was that Jesper was forced to throw away some Kangaroo jerky he had bought as a gift for his father. You can’t bring food to New Zealand!
Being a film buff, New Zealand has been on my radar since I saw a copy of a copy of a copy of “Bad Taste” on VHS back in the early 90’s I guess and later on refined in the many hours of extra material on the “Lord of the Rings” movies. It is for sure a place I would like to spend more time in than less than 24 hours where most of the time was spent in a venue that frankly looked like any other venue in the world. However, I truly enjoyed the van rides from the airport and into Auckland. It was really nice scenery even though it wasn’t any of the epic and interesting landscapes that the country has to offer.
I remember that we were really well treated at the venue. There was a band hostess that had made some tasty cupcakes for the backstage room. That has never happened before or after, I can say for sure. I don’t remember much of the show but my old notes indicates that it was a good one. In the footage I can tell that Jon wasn’t his usual self this night. During or just after the soundcheck he got a cold and was mostly spending time curled up in a fetal position on the floor of the backstage area saying stuff like “Anders – I have AIDS!” to exaggerate his man-cold. So he’s a little bit reserved on stage.
The songs in the clip are: ”Scoop”, “Bullshit”, “Relics”, “Shadows”, “Corrosion” and the intro of “Multinational Murderers Network”. Thanks to Andy Young who uploaded his friends footage to YouTube.
Note: Of course I wrote about Nasum vs NZ in the tour blog back in 2012. Here’s the entry. Share this blog post
Inhale/Exhale 25 years old!
Posted: May 26, 2023 10:06:00 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
Today, May 26 2023, it's exactly 25 years since "Inhale/Exhale" was released and ultimately became Nasum's big break. Up until then we didn't really feel that we had a following, although we obviously sold a few records and t-shirts and answered interviews (per regular mail, of course!). But it really was when "Inhale/Exhale" had been out for a while and Relapse sent us xerox copies of reviews in magazines and such that we really understood that people listen to our stuff. And they like it!
So, "Inhale/Exhale" was the stepping stone for Nasum as a real band, I would say.
It feels like yesterday when the album celebrated 20 years. Time really flies... Anyway, five years ago was the start of The Rare Nasum project when a rehearsal for "Inhale/Exhale" got released at Bandcamp. So why not celebrate in style and release another rehearsal for "Inhale/Exhale" today?
That's right - check out Bandcamp for a new 14 track album with rehearsal songs, and read some liner notes here.
In all honesty, this is a slightly week 25th celebration and I assure you that "Inhale/Exhale" will be celebrated in style, just not right now...
Nasum 30 years old! Big celebration!
Posted: October 7, 2022 10:49:56 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
Let's say that Nasum is 30 years old today. No, it's not the proper "birthday" of the band, that was probably during the summer some time, but let's say we celebrate today. And let's say Nasum brings the gifts. What do you get?
Well, two brand new OLD rehearsal albums from the vault. Last year I went through all my tapes looking for things from the past and I found a lot, but not all. I've been sitting on the "Earliest Recorded Nasum Reheasals 1992" for quite a while as I was hoping to find some more stuff that I know exist, but I never found it. Then we have the "Smile When You're Dead/Grindwork Rehearsal 1994" with a creatively charged trio version of Nasum.
Great stuff from the vault, but not with the greatest sound of course... I've priced the albums low, the early stuff extra low, so feel free to visit https://therarenasum.bandcamp.com/ for these two albums and many more.
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And celebrate the 30 years of Nasum any which way you want!
Minidiscs, Mieszko tapes and masterreels
Posted: February 8, 2022 18:00:32 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
There has been some exiting things going on with the vault related stuff lately. I posted a few video messages on the Nasum Facebook page, but I figured I needed to put it down in print as well.
To begin with, last Friday the 8th album in The Rare Nasum project was published on Bandcamp. I let the members of the Nasum Facebook page vote between a "Domedagen" rehearsal and a "Frankensteined" live show from November/December 2000, and the latter"won" the vote this time. That means that the "Domedagen" rehearsal will be next release, coming this March.
The live show was glued together from four different shows out of eight recorded on seven Minidiscs that I found in my archives while looking for other stuff. You can read lengthy notes about the show and the sources here.
In the first of the two video messages I explained that I have reached the end of the cassette project, where unfortunately not all things that I had hoped to find had been discovered. Some might not exist at all, while others do exist, so the definite end is floating at the moment. Are there more tapes somewhere? I don't know.
I also explained that from the start of the project I have gotten requests from people wanting to buy original tapes. I am not going to sell any of my tapes since they have such a big personal value. But there are some tapes that I am willing to sell. I inherited a box of tapes from Mieszko and my memories of Mieszko aren't connected to his tapes so I figured that they could be cool and unique collector's items for the fans. There are like 4-5 tapes that I am planing to sell, among others Mieszko's master copies of the "Domedagen" demo and his compilation "Corpse Flesh Genitals". At the moment, those who are interested in buying these should write me at nasum@nasum.com and I will add you to the list until I figure out how to proceed. There will probably be some kind of auction for the stuff. I don't know yet, but if you are interested - write me!
And then, the huge thing, that came out of nowhere... A few weeks ago I met with Mathias Färm who used to run Soundlab Studios together with Mieszko back in the day, and still does these days on his own, and he gave me a bunch of master tapes that he discovered when they moved the studio a few years ago. There were five ADAT tapes that has "Human 2.0" and then five 1/2" reels with stuff connected to me! One of the tapes has, according to a paper inside, the 16 track recording of "Industrislaven", and two tapes has the recording of "Inhale/Exhale" which is REALLY exciting. Unfortunately, "Inhale/Exhale" was recorded on three reels and I have number 1 and 3... But then there's one mystery tape that is marked only "Nasum" and that can be the missing second reel, or it can be either the "Regressive Hostility" recording of the Warhate-split stuff recorded between the albums.
I don't know, but if it is the second "Inhale/Exhale" reel, I would be extremely excited. The goal with the cassette project was to find the four unreleased songs from the album and I found only one. During the project I came to the conclusion that they probably never were mixed properly and therefor never put on a cassette. But I know now that at least two more are on the reels I got (since we wrote the reel content in the Soundlab guestbook) and hopefully all four are there.
I need to bake (!) and transfer these tapes digitally and I have some options how to proceed with that, but it will cost some money, so if you want to help me to fund the work, support The Rare Nasum or donate in some other way. All proceeds from the Mieszko tapes will obviously also cover this upcoming cost. Once the reels are available digitally there are exiting stuff to be done!
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America! Fuck yeah!
Posted: December 1, 2021 15:02:07 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
There has been two additions to the Vault, both related to the US tour of 1999. The other week I wrote some notes to a YouTube clip of the first Nasum show in the US, at Milwaukee Metalfest. This clip has been online for ages, so it's not new-new but the notes are brand new.
Today I have released another album in The Rare Nasum project over at Bandcamp which is a soundboard recording from New York roughly a week after the Milwaukee show. For this release I have written A LOT of words speaking about the entire tour and the New York show in particular. It was at the legendary CBGB's after all.
That said, it might be interesting for the die-hard Nasum fan to compare the shows. What happens to the music, the performance and the whole thing during a tour? Quite a lot if you ask me.
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The ongoing cassette project
Posted: November 22, 2021 19:38:57 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
In case you don't follow Nasum on Facebook, you might have missed an ongoing cassette project that has been going on for the last couple of months. I have been posting a few messages and videos about this on Facebook. In short: I have loads of cassettes from back when, some marked, most of them unmarked, that I have been wanting to explore for quite some time. I know there are some gold on them, but I haven't had the time to do a serious take on this lengthy project. Until now.
For the last couple of years, I have been publishing some odd recordings from Nasum over at Bandcamp as The Rare Nasum project. It started with an "Inhale/Exhale" rehearsal and some of you have been kind enough to pay for the music. I have earmarked all the money that has come my way through this to be able to take a week of from work to go through all the tapes.
This happened the last week of September. The plan was to go through all the tapes, identify and hopefully find the good stuff, digitalize it and go from there. I had also planed to go through a few boxes of documents, but I only had time to do the first part of the tape project. It takes a lot of time to do this!
But I am close to the end. I have found some good stuff and started the digitalization process, but there are still lots of tapes left to explore. And there are a few things I KNOW I have recorded but haven't found yet, some stuff that I need to find before I can finish some other parts.
I uploaded the first release from this ongoing project the other week. It was a rehearsal with the original three piece preparing for the "Industrislaven" recording. It was a fun find.
Some other stuff that has been found and that will be released eventually are this:
• The earliest known recorded Nasum rehearsal. It has Rickard and I playing three of the songs from "Blind World" and some cover stuff. It’s rough but very cool. I am hoping to find some more early stuff to add to this "album" as it's a little bit too short at this time. I have some acoustic riffs from the second recording ("Really Fast vol 9") that might fit and there is an unrecorded song called "Maze" that Mieszko and I recorded a rehearsal of just playing the guitars that I hope to find. That would be real gold!
• A rehearsal for the "Smile When You're Dead"/"Grindwork" session. Again with the original three piece. This one has been digitalized but I have yet to write some notes about it.
• A rehearsal for the "World In Turmoil"/"The Black Illusions" session. Actually, a FEW rehearsals... I have 42 recorded songs and that is way too many to release, so this session will go through some serious editing before it's ready for a release.
• More "Inhale/Exhale" rehearsals. Again, it's a bunch of sessions and too many songs, so more editing to do.
• More "Helvete" rehearsals... Copy + paste from above. Needs heavy editing and the sound is so so...
There are more to explore, but this stuff is most likely to appear as The Rare Nasum releases soon.
But what is next? Well, I can tell you right now: A soundboard recording from Nasum's show at CBGB's in New York, August 1999. This was actually found on a DAT that I had to send away for transfer but it's interesting, to say the least. The sound is a bit on the rough side but it works and after some editing I have about 30 minutes of Nasum live for you all. I have a lot to say about this evening in The Great Apple so I have some writing to do before it can be released. But be patient - it's coming soon!
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I am still looking for those four excluded songs from "Inhale/Exhale" but I am sort of losing hope. I might not have them after all. Perhaps they were never mixed? I have found ONE of the songs so that will be released in some way soon, but I guess I will wait until I KNOW that the other three are nowhere to be found.
In this project I have of course found a lot of other interesting stuff that doesn't bear the monicker Nasum. I have found demos and recordings from friends and local bands that I have been digitalizing and distributed to the people involved. I have found several rehearsals and similar stuff from related bands such as Necrony, Krigshot and Bloodshed. I have also found more obscure things like Carbuncle, a grind/noise project who did an improvised session when the Necrony 7" EP was recorded (basically it's Necrony + Dan Swanö) and Stalemate, a grindcore project I had with two members of Altar in the early 90's.
You should not expect any of the stuff mentioned being released in any form (with the exception of Necrony, perhaps). This stuff is mainly for me. I am still looking for a project called Illuminate which was Mieszko and I doing some "hardcore stuff" that could pass for some of the odd Nasum songs. I hope I will find that when I go through the last tapes.
Anyway, the gist of it all is that quite a lot of stuff will be added to The Rare Nasum in time and you should keep an eye on Facebook for more video messages along the line. You don't need to have a Facebook account to see the Nasum page.
Shift: Drums & Scratch in the vault
Posted: June 21, 2021 09:05:43 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
The other week I found a box of CD-R's and DVD-R's with some different stuff on them. One actually had some scribblings on it and I realised that it was a "work in progress" CD from the recording of "Shift", with the drums and a scratch guitar.
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As I started to listen to it I discovered not only one or two but THREE unifinished songs from the session, which made this a perfect addition to The Rare Nasum project. Of the 33 songs recorded for the session, I picked out a total of 10 including the three unifinished songs and made a digital album at Bandcamp.
Accompanying notes are available for your reading pleasure here at nasum.com.
I have loads of interesting stuff boxed up and every little dollar or EURO from each purchase of The Rare Nasum stuff is put aside and will sponsor a THOROUGH vault excavation after the summer. So loads of stuff will be added, most of it totally for free.
The vault has been updated
Posted: June 3, 2021 13:46:27 by ANDERS JAKOBSON
In case you have missed it, The Nasum Vault is where I collect different things from the years, be it exclusive audio recordings, videoclips, artwork or some written stuff.
Today the vault has been updated with some of the latter. I begun when I searched for something else over at Archive.org where snapshots of webpages are collected in the Wayback Machine. Some how I checked out the earliest snapshots of nasum.com and found some stuff that I had forgotten we had there.
To start, I found a tour diary from 2000 when we toured Europe for seven weeks with Napalm Death. That was from the time of the "Human 2.0" album and I also found a bunch of reviews that were fun to read. With those in place I had some "Human 2.0" related material and decided to add the liner notes from the 2014 LP reissue to the vault.
As I continued going forward in time in the Wayback Machine I found another tour diary, this time from 2003 when we did a shorter thing in Finland with Rotten Sound. That was quite a fun read.
This might not be as exciting as a rehearsal with unreleased stuff but it still fun stuff from the past that I wanted to add in the vault. With that said, I can tease that I plan to do a focused and thorough excavtion of the vault this coming fall. That might bring the really exciting stuff to light...
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ABOUT THE VAULT
Nasum might not be a performing band anymore or existing in the normal sense, but the legacy remains under the sharp supervision of the founding member Anders Jakobson. THE NASUM VAULT is the "umbrella" for a number of projects collecting information and items from the Nasum history.
The first project was The Vault Blog, introduced in 2014 as a place to share "interesting, semi-interesting or uninteresting things" from the Nasum Vault - stories, images and what ever. The second project was The Rare Nasum, audio goodies published on Bandcamp - rehearsals and live shows. Side by side with these two projects, there is The Official Nasum YouTube Channel where video oddities are posted.
This page is the collective portal for The Nasum Vault, grouped in the three different time periods of the band. This page will be updated when new stuff is added, and you can always help the Vault to grow by supporting The Rare Nasum - see more info at the bottom of the page.
Last updated: February, 2021.
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