Artist: NIRVANA 2002
Album: RECORDINGS 89-91 (DIGI)

Release date: 2009
Media type: CD

Before there was a Swedish Death Metal scene - let alone a signature sound - Nirvana 2002 was helping to create both. Formed in the late '80s by Orvar Safstrom, who would later join Entombed, N2K was a grinding revelation that infused punk's spirit and energy into metal much more cohesively than the era's thrash crossover merchants did. The band's demos and rehearsal tapes became hot commodities on the tape trading circuit though the band split by 1991. Recordings 89-91 almost two decades overdue, has nearly everything Nirvana 2002 ever put to tape. It is not just a nostalgic time capsule from the past, but a glimpse at what the future would hold, and was definitely worth the wait.

Recommended if You Like: ENTOMBED, GRAVE, DISMEMBER, UNLEASHED, NECROPHOBIC, DEATH BREATH, AUTOPSY, POSSESSED, old DEATH ...

TRACKLIST:

1. "Mourning"
2. "Slumber"
3. "Zombiefication
4. "The Awakening Of..."
5. "Further Beyond"
6. "Snake"
7. "Physical Excursion/ Truth And Beauty"
8. "Brutality"
9. "The Awakening Of..."
10. "Watch The River Flow"
11. "In Fell Tongues"
12. "Mourning"
13. "Slumber"
14. "Zombiefication"
15. "The Awakening Of..."

Track 1: Taken from the Projections Of A Stained Mind compilation, 1990
Tracks 2-4: Disembodied Spirits demo, 1990 (2009 mix)
Tracks 5-6: Promo '91
Tracks 7-8: Excursions in the 2002nd Dimension demo, 1989
Tracks 9-10: Rehearsal, 1990
Track 11: Rehearsal, 1991
Track 12: Live at Kafи 44, Jan., 2007
Tracks 13-15: Disembodied Spirits demo, 1990 (original mix)