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REVIEWS LIST:
VIEW 1. V.A. - "A TRIBUTE TO NASUM" (POWER-IT-UP RECORDS, 2009)
Review by Grindcorefan & Taras Bulba Below)
VIEW 2. V.A. - "A TRIBUTE TO NASUM" (POWER-IT-UP RECORDS, 2009)
Review by Gravedigger (DWZ Guest Review Writer )
VIEW 3. V.A. - "A TRIBUTE TO NASUM" (POWER-IT-UP RECORDS, 2009)
Review by Bad I'm (DWZ Guest Review Writer )
- BUY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED
COMPILATION!!!!!! MANDATORY !!!!!
PERSONALLY I THINK THAT CAN NOT OUTSHINE THE GLORY DAYS OF NASUM AND
TO BEAT THEIR SOUND - IT'S WAS PERFECT ... TAKE FOR EXAMPLE
INHALE/EXHALE OR HUMAN 2.0 OR SHIFT ... ITS NOT A COMPETITION ITS A
GRIND TRIBUTE TO THE MASTERS OF GRINDCORE. I DONT WANT TO SAY WHO
PLAYS BETTER OR WORST ITS JUST A MASSIVE BLAST OF GRIND THAT I
RECOMMEND TO HAVE EVERYBODY. - MICHAEL
"53 TRACKS IN TOTAL BUT A FEW FROM MY FAVORITE INHALE/EXHALE ALBUM
.. RRRRRR" - TARAS BULBA
Nasum (pronunciation [Na:sum]) was a political Swedish band that
played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name,
meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for
Frankenstein.
Nasum was formed in 1992 by Anders Jakobson (guitar) and Rickard
Alriksson (drums/vocals), two former members of the goregrind band
Necrony. Two weeks before their first recording they added Mieszko
Talarczyk (also with Genocide Superstars) as a guitarist. The tracks
they recorded at this time were later released on the split 7" with
Agathocles. Early on, they were featured on a four-way split MCD
with Retaliation, Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ, and Vivisection
called Grindwork after the imprint it was issued under, in 1994.
Poserslaughter records released Nasum's next offering, a 15-track
vinyl 12" (expanded to 18 tracks for the MCD version) called
Industrislaven. Later, Blurred issued World in Turmoil (another
EP-length 12" vinyl) and Nasum also contributed to Smile When Your
Dead and The Black Illusions, split releases with Psycho and
Abstain, respectively, before being signed to Relapse Records in
1997.
They released their first full-length album, Inhale/Exhale, as a
two-member band, since Alriksson had left the band and Jakobson took
over on drums. They later added a third member, Jesper Liverod, so
that they could tour with both a bassist and a guitarist, and
released the album Human 2.0 (Human 2.01 in Japan) in 2000. Shortly
after the release of their next album, 2003's Helvete ("hell" in
Swedish), Urban Skytt, also a member of the grindcore/goregrind band
Regurgitate, was added as a second guitarist, and Liverod departed
to focus on his other band, Burst, being replaced by Jon Lindqvist,
who also plays with hardcore punks Victims and the grindcore band
Sayyadina. Both Helvete and Human 2.0 showed a change in direction
away from the more traditional-grindcore-oriented sound that Nasum
had on Inhale/Exhale, and towards a cleaner, more technically
complex sound, which expanded to include doomy guitarsounds and
occasional slow breakdowns.
All of Nasum's studio albums were recorded at Soundlab in Örebro,
and by the time touring for Helvete had been completed, these albums
had earned the studio (and thus Talarczyk) a reputation for
excellence which led other grindcore and hardcore troupes (notably
Finland's Rotten Sound) to its doors.[citation needed] 2004's Shift
was released by the Swedish punk label Burning Heart, and in the
run-up to its recording Nasum toured extensively with their new
line-up. The touring continued, including a European leg to support
the release of Shift in the Autumn.
In late December 2004, lead singer/guitarist Mieszko Talarczyk was
reported missing as a result of the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake,
according to a statement by Jakobson through Nasum.com, the day
after the disaster. On 17 February 2005 it was confirmed that his
body was identified,and that he died as a result of the tsunami on
26 December. The band decided to break up.
The other members returned to the bands they had been playing in
besides Nasum (Skytt continued work with Regurgitate). Anders
Jakobson (the only remaining founding member), while in the process
of founding death metal band Coldworker, worked on the 2CD
compilation Grind Finale. This had been a work long in-progress:
there was talk of Relapse issuing a compilation of Nasum's 'Swedish'
1995-1997 material as early as 2000. In the wake of the acclaim
Nasum achieved via Helvete, the compilation again came up: it had a
title (one which ultimately became unsuitable in the wake of
Talarczyk's death), had been expanded to two CDs, and had been being
sparingly worked on in-between tours and Talarcyzk's then hectic
schedule at Soundlab. The album was finally released in 2006. In
March 2008, Relapse Records released a live-album of one of Nasum's
live shows in Osaka, Japan, called Doombringer.
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