Grind Finale
compilation album by Nasum
Grind Finale is a two-CD compilation album by Swedish grindcore band Nasum. It covers the band's entire career, with songs from all the 15 studio recordings between 1993 and 2004, including 21 previously unreleased songs.
The original title for the compilation was Blueprint for Extinction, but after the death of Nasum frontman Mieszko Talarczyk, the remaining band members felt that the word "extinction" made the title inappropriate. The band started to think of a play on words with "Grind" somewhere in the title, and ended up with "Grind Finale" since it would be the final major release from Nasum.
The lyrics of the song "Erased" are almost entirely derived from a frequently quoted passage in Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century.
Track listing
Disc one
Blind World – 1:18
Think – 1:20
Scarecrows – 1:36
No Time to Waste – 0:42
Total Destruction – 0:27
Between the Walls – 1:50
Left in a Dream – 0:24
Uneventful Occupation – 0:58
Reasons? – 0:18
Disforest – 0:10
Self Vilification – 0:35
Red Tape Suckers – 0:04
Re-create the System – 0:27
Rens – 0:04
Hurt – 0:24
Corpse Flesh Genitals – 0:58
Sawder – 0:47
A Look at Society – 0:44
Fucking Murder! – 0:43
Black Visions (Scarecrows II) – 1:00
Escape – 0:17
See the Shit (With Your Own Eyes) – 0:47
Restrained from the Truth – 0:31
No Chance – 0:57
My Fear – 0:37
Fur – 1:02
A Game Played by Society – 0:28
It's All About the Information – 0:20
Smile When You're Dead – 0:32
Blindfolded (By the Media) – 0:22
Erased – 0:20
Warfuck – 0:12
No Chance (Extended Noise-remix Version) – 1:51
Cut to Fit – 0:44
Forced Opinion – 0:37
Domedagen – 0:43
Left in a Dream – 0:23
Distortion & Disinformation – 1:23
Stalemate (Napalm Death cover) – 0:58
Bag – 0:46
Revolution – 0:37
What's "Life"? – 0:35
Think – 1:12
Verklighetsflykt – 0:19
Face Obliteration – 0:58
Enough! – 1:03
Dom Styr Vara Liv (Mob 47 cover) – 1:01
Industrislaven – 0:25
Löpandebandsprincipen – 0:28
Cut to Fit – 0:45
Fantasibilder – 0:52
Distortion & Disinformation – 1:24
Brinn – 0:51
Krigets Skörd – 1:09
Mer Rens – 0:17
Ditt Öde – 0:26
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