Nasum - A Tribute To Nasum

A Tribute To Nasum (aka the Tribute with the long tracklist EVER) is fifty two tracks of grindcore, deathcore, and death metal bands performing numerous songs by the band Nasum. Nasum originally was formed out of Sweden in 1998 before splitting in 2004. The band's politically charged grindcore must have left quite an impression on the metal world. With only about four full length albums and a bunch of split albums and EPs, Nasum left quite a span of songs to choose for anyone who chose to do a tribute.

As long as this tribute album is by track namesake, the actual duration is very short. Many of the songs here are a minute or less, barely clocking an hour overall. There's a few familiar names on the list such as Coldworker and Leng Tch'e, but the rest are relatively unknown. It's all deathcore, grindcore so among all the blastbeats and growling, the only difference in style between each band is the tone of the vocals. Since the songs are so short each band only gets a minute or so to showcase their talents, but overall they don't really sound any different from the one heard before.

As monotonous as the album can get, each artists pays homage to these supposed grindcore Gods. Every track lives up to the brutality of the original. Fans of grindcore in general will probably get a kick out of this, but may not take away much because there are so many bands to choose from and so little play time. It is very hard to say that Ablach has more talent than Sakat or Venocide when they all sound the same and only played for about a minute. It is like listening to a concert with the fastest change overs in the history of metal kind; not fun and ultimately warranting a riot at the ticket office for some money back.

  1. Den Mörka Tide - Coldworker
  2. Digging In - Misery Index
  3. No
    Sign Of Improvemen - Leng Tch'e
  4. Just Another Hog - Deathbound
  5. Blinde
    - Total Fucking Destruction
  6. Corrosion - The Astral Project
  7. Resistance
    - Rotten Sound
  8. Shadows - Afgrund
  9. Gargoyles and
    Grotesques - Mumakil
  10. Reasons? - Japanische Kampfhorspiele
  11. Think
    - Dead Infection
  12. The Rest Is Over - Kill The Client
  13. This
    is... - Krush





  14. Låt Inte Asen Styra Ditt Li - Infanticide
  15. Disappointed -
    Rompeprop
  16. The Dream - Nashgul
  17. The Black Swarm -
    Putrescence
  18. Corrosion - Sanity's Dawn
  19. Nar Dagarna... -
    Splitter
  20. Going Nowhere - Blockheads
  21. Tested - Accion
    Mutante
  22. Cut To Fit - Embalming Theatre
  23. I Helvetet -
    Obligatorisk Tortyr
  24. Worst Case Scenario - Who's My Saviour
  25. The
    Masked Face - Mastic Scum
  26. A Welcome Breeze Of Stinking Air -
    Keitzer
  27. Fantasibilder - Depression
  28. Closer To The End -
    Collision
  29. Stealth Politics - Goregast
  30. Silent Sanguinary
    Soil - My Cold Embrace
  31. The Spiral Goes Down - Magnicide
  32. Doombringer
    - Poostew
  33. Fullmatad - Sakatat
  34. My Philosophy - Utopium
  35. The
    Idiot Parade - Rottencold
  36. Warfuck - White Eyes
  37. Detonator
    - Nyctophobic
  38. The Everlasting Dream - Infest
  39. Information
    Is Free - Black Hole of Calcutta
  40. Word To Die For - Drudgery
  41. Too
    Naked To Distort - Ablach
  42. Medley - K.S.K.
  43. A Request For
    Guidance - Masochist
  44. Sixteen - Methadone Abortion Clinic
  45. Shapeshifter
    - Expose Your Hate
  46. Fantasi Nesten - Treason Grind
  47. Ditt
    Ode - Sound Of Detestation
  48. It's Never Too Late - Horrifica
  49. Black
    Visions - Grind Crusher
  50. Disforest - Venocide
  51. Can De
    Lach - Creative Waste
  52. Rens - Bathtub Shitter

Power It Up Records
Reviewer: Colin McNamara
Apr 17, 2010
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