The reason for doing this was I believe to spread out the vocals during a longer period. Today I don't remember how much we managed to record during the first session, but I imagine it was all the drums, all the rhythm guitars and some vocals. I remember listening to the finished and mastered version in the new Soundlab Studios which was built after the recording. Mieszko and I were very pleased with the result. In hindsight things could have been much better. 'Human 2.0' was partly destroyed in the mastering. But the half crappy sound gave us something to beat next time. I came up with the title during 1999 since there was so much talk about the new millennium, the Y2K bugs and so forth. It felt modern to have a 2.0 title indication the next version of something, this time a human. 'Human 2.0' was a great concept that was developed after the first 'Matrix' movie.

We all had different interpretations of what 'Human 2.0' actually meant so we didn't have an official explanation in interviews. It was up to everyone to have their own interpretation.Īfter deciding on the title we had a meeting with Robert Ahlborg to discuss the cover. On May 13, 2022, the Ito Review 2.0 on Human Capital report (the 2.0 Report) was published by the Study Group toward. Other bands had dark covers so by having a white cover we really stood out. Someone reacted funny to the cover in a forum: We discussed many ideas for the cover and Robert shot pictures of a skinny friend of his and painted the chords and holes and added the logo tattoo in Photoshop. What does everyone think of how amazingly homo-erotic the new Nasum LP cover art is? Grindcore records are supposed to have dead skeletons and war victims with blood and chainsaws and stuff like that - not Calvin Klein boy models with electronic items plugged into their nipples. I KNOW IT, PEOPLE! WAKE UP! Be warned people! If Nasum come to your town - they may attempt to make out with you! How much do you want to bet it's a Elton John or Sting CD that is being pumped into that white-skinned boy's nipple? I know it. The picture of us shot in a sofa is another funny story. Mieszko and I went to Robert's apartment and posed in his sofa. Jesper was living in another town near Stockholm and Robert moved to Stockholm to study, so the picture of Jesper was shot in Stockholm months later. Robert then patched everything together brilliantly. The image was used by many magazines instead of our promo pictures. 'Inhale/Exhale' was never released in Japan but Relapse had made a deal with Ritual Records/Howling Bull for 'Human 2.0'. We had already come up with the brilliant idea of updating the title to the Japanese release and make it 'Human 2.01'. As you all know Japanese CD's always have bonus tracks which is a way to make Japanese buyers support the domestic market instead of buying imports. Relapse added the songs from the split 7' with Warhate. The only thing we had to do was pick out the exact length of the songs as written on the backcover. The LP for 'Human 2.0' was yet again a collaboration by Relapse and Sweden's Distortion Records. It was made on white vinyl and limited run on black. The only regret with this release is that we sort of forgot to rename the album - it should obviously had been 'Human 2.02'. The picture disc ('Human 2.03'?) was made by Sweden's Vinyl Maniacs/GMR in 2005 when they released the first three albums on this format.

Late 2014 'Human 2.0' was reissued on vinyl along with the three other Nasum albums. The reissue was released in a gatefold cover and included liner notes by Anders Jakobson.

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