NASUM / COLDWORKER drummer Anders Jakobson has issued the following update:

"I've started a little interview series with my fellow death metal and grindcore drummers out there in my blog. It might be a little bit out of the ordinary to have an interview series at a band website but what the fuck, it's good stuff.

Well, what is this then? Well, as I've come to realize that there's a lot of drummers reading the blog and visiting the Nasum website I've decided to put a little bit of more focus on that subject. I started the 'Drums' category in this blog to talk about my drumming and now I've started this new interview series where other drummers talk about their approach to drumming. It's drum-nerd-o-rama for sure, but I think it's a pretty interesting subject. When it comes to death metal and grindcore the band has to rely on a steady drummer. A drummer in these genrers can't cut any corners as opposed to drummers doing more straight on music. Why not put the drummers in the spotlight for a change?

I don't know how many parts of this series I will do, but I know that I will speak to four drummers (all Swedish) as a start and then we'll see what happens. First off is Tobias (Tobben) Gustafsson of death metal killers VOMITORY, soon to release their new album Terrorize Brutalize Sodomize. This is a great interview, I hope you'll enjoy it!"

Q: Vomitory will soon release a new album. In your studio diary over at the Global Domination forum you wrote that you managed to record all the drums in one day LESS than expected. What do you see was the reason for this rapid recording? Did you prepare yourself more than before regarding rehearsals or was just a matter of being in a good mood?

Gustafsson: "I guess it was a combination of both. Obviously, I was in very good drumming shape when we began the recordings and we had rehearsed all the songs quite a lot before we entered the studio. There were never really any 'critical' parts in any of the songs, so overall, everything went very smooth."

Q: How much editing is involved in the drum recordings? (No editing is mentioned in the studio diary.) Do you aim to put down the song in its entirety or do you repair little mistakes and such stuff if most part of the take is great? What's your general opinion about editing?

Gustafsson: "Man, this is a very sensitive subject for drummers… I always aim to put down every song in its entirety, of course, and sometimes I manage to do so and sometimes I don’t. When I don’t, I repair the little mistakes if the rest of the take is really good. Or if the first half of a take is killer and the other half isn’t as good, we punch-in the drums from there and I make a killer second half of that track.

-- I’m not the one who, at any cost, has to put down every song flawlessly in one take. Fuck that. Have you ever seen or heard of a guitarist that puts down his guitar tracks without punch-ins, cutting, editing etc? Every guitarist does it, so why can’t drummers do it as well? Or vocalists, or bassists, or keyboard players etc…?
-- When you’re in the studio doing an album, you’re there doing an album. It’s not live, ‘cause that is something totally different. Where does one draw the line when it comes to recording? If you look at it from a very strict perspective, the whole way of recording in a studio is cheating. No band on earth sounds like they do in the studio when they play live.
-- My view on editing and computer recording has changed during the last, say, five years. When the computers made its entrance into the world of recording for real, I was really sceptical about everything about it, not to mention that one also was able to edit the drums, cut and paste as much as one liked! What the fuck was that all about!!?? But now I see everything as very helpful, time- and money-saving tools.
-- You can’t deny that the technology constantly develops, so instead of being a stubborn bullhead, I am open to the possibilities of utilizing the advantages of what today’s recording technology has to offer. That’s what they’re designed for. But of course it has to be used with certain moderation. It should definitely not cover up the fact that one can’t play for shit!"

To read the entire in-depth interview go to this location.