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2020 press on black vinyl with lyric insert. Limited 700 copies

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.

Track list:
1. Mourning-Projections Of A Stained Mind 1990 compilation track
2. Slumber-Disembodied Spirits demo 1990-remix 2009
3. Zombiefication-Disembodied Spirits demo 1990-remix 2009
4. The Awakening Of-Disembodied Spirits demo 1990-remix 2009
5. Further Beyond-promo 1991
6. Snakes-promo 1991
7. Physical Excursion / Truth And Beauty-Excursions On The 2002nd Dimension demo 1989
8. Brutality-Excursions On The 2002nd Dimension demo 1989
9. The Awakening Of-rehearsal 1990
10. Watch The River Flow-rehearsal 1990
11. In Fell Tongues-rehearsal 1991
12. Mourning-live at Kafe 44
13. Slumber-Disembodied Spirits demo 1990
14. Zombiefication-Disembodied Spirits demo 1990
15. The Awakening Of-Disembodied Spirits demo 1990