Nirvana 2002 - Biography
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Biography
In the fall of 1988 two guys named Orvar and Erik decided to form a Death Metal band: they really never wanted a typical Death Metal name, so the project was called Prophet 2002, the name of an old analog synthesizer.
1989: Even though no studio recording was available yet their rehearsal tapes gained easily a lot of interest. After a few time they changed the name to because Orvar was interested in metaphysical philosophy, parapsychology and stuff like that at the time, and they released a porta-demo called "Truth & Beauty". A little bit later they heard that an American band with the same name released an official 7"EP for Subpop, so they recovered the previous suffix 2002 to avoid confusion: If they had known how famous that band from Seattle would have became then, surely they would have taken a totally different name! The 2 songs have been spreaded also as "Excursions in the 2002nd Dimension" with a songtitle changed and the addition of the strange "Krishna Extrema" outro.
1990: The line-up was completed with Lars on bass and they entered in the famous Sunlight Studios to record "Mourning": the recording was made using the same Entombed's "Left Hand Path" equipment and assisted by Nicke and Uffe. After a while they recorded their first professional demo tape in their hometown studio: "Disembodied Spirits", then released by CBR Records.
One song, "The Awakening Of?" was previously released in a 4-way Split 7"EP for Opinionate! Records. The demo was suddenly a cult in the underground!
1991: "Mourning" appeared in the legendary "Projections of a Stained Mind" compilation by CBR: this song was supposed to be released also as a single for CBR so 2 additional tracks were recorded at Sunlight on February, but nothing came of it, so the planned B-sides were released as the "Promo '91". In August Orvar returned alone to Sunlight Studio to record different vocals for 'Mourning' and 'Snake', still confident to release them for CBR: This was the absolute last breath of the band. Sadly these alternate versions are now lost.
They decided to never play live, so there is no concert material, only some straight rehearsal tapes.
1992: The band had offers for an album by Deaf and Necrosis Records, but they simply took different ways: Eric got really into jazz and started studying music seriously; He's now teaching drums and percussion at the FIH Music Univeristy in Reykjavik, Iceland. Lars lost interest in music and begun to work.
Orvar moved to the US and stayed away for a few years; He's now working on the Swedish tv.
2001: Orvar was approached by Relapse Records that wanted to release all the band stuff on CD but nothing happened.
2006: Erik gave all his tapes to Uffe Cederlund that plans to release a compilation CD with all the band's material on Threeman Recordings.
2007: The band played their first gig ever at Kafè 44 for the release party of the book Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth (Insision, Dellamorte). Sadly Erik couldn't be there so his place behind the drums has been taken by Robert Eriksson of The Hellacopters, an old friend of the band.
2008: Since Uffe left Threeman Recordings, the rest of the staff in the label have completely lost any interest in making the CD.
In July the guys reunited for 3 days to be together, have fun and play the old songs after years: Hey, it was only a private thing, there is NO official reunion!
Good news: Relapse Records contacted Orvar again!
2009: The contract with Relapse Records is signed: Finally the long waited official 2002 compilation is released on 11 November 2009!
It features everything recorded by the band except: the alternate versions of "Mourning" and "Snake" with different vocals, now lost (Help us) and the live versions of "Slumber" and "The Awakening Of..." played at Kafè 44 (you can see the videos on the bottom left of this page) because of the bad sound.
2010: To celebrate the cd release they've been invited to the mighty Maryland Deathfest to finally play live with the original line-up. Erik Wallin from Merciless joined the band as second guitar and a previous live at Debaser Slussen, Stockholm has been a killer european warm-up!
1989: Even though no studio recording was available yet their rehearsal tapes gained easily a lot of interest. After a few time they changed the name to because Orvar was interested in metaphysical philosophy, parapsychology and stuff like that at the time, and they released a porta-demo called "Truth & Beauty". A little bit later they heard that an American band with the same name released an official 7"EP for Subpop, so they recovered the previous suffix 2002 to avoid confusion: If they had known how famous that band from Seattle would have became then, surely they would have taken a totally different name! The 2 songs have been spreaded also as "Excursions in the 2002nd Dimension" with a songtitle changed and the addition of the strange "Krishna Extrema" outro.
1990: The line-up was completed with Lars on bass and they entered in the famous Sunlight Studios to record "Mourning": the recording was made using the same Entombed's "Left Hand Path" equipment and assisted by Nicke and Uffe. After a while they recorded their first professional demo tape in their hometown studio: "Disembodied Spirits", then released by CBR Records.
One song, "The Awakening Of?" was previously released in a 4-way Split 7"EP for Opinionate! Records. The demo was suddenly a cult in the underground!
1991: "Mourning" appeared in the legendary "Projections of a Stained Mind" compilation by CBR: this song was supposed to be released also as a single for CBR so 2 additional tracks were recorded at Sunlight on February, but nothing came of it, so the planned B-sides were released as the "Promo '91". In August Orvar returned alone to Sunlight Studio to record different vocals for 'Mourning' and 'Snake', still confident to release them for CBR: This was the absolute last breath of the band. Sadly these alternate versions are now lost.
They decided to never play live, so there is no concert material, only some straight rehearsal tapes.
1992: The band had offers for an album by Deaf and Necrosis Records, but they simply took different ways: Eric got really into jazz and started studying music seriously; He's now teaching drums and percussion at the FIH Music Univeristy in Reykjavik, Iceland. Lars lost interest in music and begun to work.
Orvar moved to the US and stayed away for a few years; He's now working on the Swedish tv.
2001: Orvar was approached by Relapse Records that wanted to release all the band stuff on CD but nothing happened.
2006: Erik gave all his tapes to Uffe Cederlund that plans to release a compilation CD with all the band's material on Threeman Recordings.
2007: The band played their first gig ever at Kafè 44 for the release party of the book Swedish Death Metal by Daniel Ekeroth (Insision, Dellamorte). Sadly Erik couldn't be there so his place behind the drums has been taken by Robert Eriksson of The Hellacopters, an old friend of the band.
2008: Since Uffe left Threeman Recordings, the rest of the staff in the label have completely lost any interest in making the CD.
In July the guys reunited for 3 days to be together, have fun and play the old songs after years: Hey, it was only a private thing, there is NO official reunion!
Good news: Relapse Records contacted Orvar again!
2009: The contract with Relapse Records is signed: Finally the long waited official 2002 compilation is released on 11 November 2009!
It features everything recorded by the band except: the alternate versions of "Mourning" and "Snake" with different vocals, now lost (Help us) and the live versions of "Slumber" and "The Awakening Of..." played at Kafè 44 (you can see the videos on the bottom left of this page) because of the bad sound.
2010: To celebrate the cd release they've been invited to the mighty Maryland Deathfest to finally play live with the original line-up. Erik Wallin from Merciless joined the band as second guitar and a previous live at Debaser Slussen, Stockholm has been a killer european warm-up!