Nasum Quotes

Nasum was formed by me and a guy called Rickard Alriksson back in the fall of 1992. By spring 1993 Mieszko joined us and we did our first recording which was a split 7" EP with the legendary Agathocles. We kept on doing a couple of more recordings until Rickard left us. Mieszko and I kept on as a two piece doing some more recordings for compilations and split 7"'s until we got signed by Relapse and did our first album "Inhale/exhale". Following that we found Jesper who joined us on bass and we started to do shows and tours. Since then we've done two more albums ("Human 2.0" and "Helvete") and continued to do shows and tours. 
Anders Jakobson 

The band have no political stance as a group. We all have different ideas (they are of course in the same ballpark) which we explain in our lyrics. We write about situations and problems in the world. Our lyrics are mainly directed to the listener so that he or she can get some ideas and then take it from there. We don't write "change the system!", we write "change yourself!" to put it easy. 
Anders Jakobson

We all write music and lyrics separately. The music and lyrics are equally important for us, but I guess that we spend the most time on the music because not all listeners read the lyrics. We also write our songs individually. I write my songs by myself at home and the others write their songs the same way. Of course we make some adjustments and such when we play them together but we never "jam" songs together. 
Anders Jakobson