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

"Hello all! I hope the holidays have been good for each and everyone of you and that 2007 looks like a good year for you, it certainly does for me. 2006 has been an exciting year for me, especially compared to 2005 which more or less sucked big time. Enough about that! 2006 was the year when I released two new album, created a new band and did 18 shows. Not much perhaps, but at least it's something.

First off: KRIGSHOT. We recorded the Till Vilket Pris Som Helst album in December of 2005 and January 2006 and it was released by Communichaos Media in April, in which we also had a little release party show at Kafé 44 in Stockholm. I am quite pleased with the album. It was the first real thing I recorded on my equipment and I also mixed the album and did the cover - a real ego trip for sure.

And the show was good as well. We also did a second show at the Augustibuller festival which was sort of interesting in many ways. On my way to the festival I was apparently speeding (hm...) so the cops, of the "slaniga snutar" as we say in Krigshot, arrested me and gave me a ticket of huge proportions. As I was already late for the festival I sent a text-message to the other guys saying that I was running late because I had to drive according to the rules.

When I got to the festival I was very late and during this time a rumour had started that the entire band had gotten arrested for drug possession! Rumours! Anyway, that show went well also but since then Krigshot has lain low. There were talk about a Stockholm show but it never happened.

Right now I don't know what's in the future of the band. I'd really like to do a 7" or something just quite spontaneously but we'll see.

If you haven't heard Till Vilket Pris Som Helst I suggest you buy a copy at once! More info about Krigshot at Krigshot.com.

I also did a show with REGURGITATE during the summer. Jocke was expecting another child and couldn't leave the country to do the Grind your mother festival in Italy so I was asked to help. I did a few shows with Regurgitate in 2004 when Jocke was ill so it wasn't that surprising that I would do it again.

It was a fun trip with Rugge, Urban and Glenn, especially to get down in Europe again and meet some cool people. NAPALM DEATH was at the festival too so it was great meeting these friends again.

The biggest thing for me 2006 was of course starting a new band, getting a record deal, recording an album, releasing the album and touring in less than a year. You should know what I'm talking about because everything happened here in the blog.

It was in January that I first explained my wish for a new band and I even announced for members in the blog. I found Anders B and Oskar and in February we had our first rehearsals and then the ball was rolling. In two months the band was completed by André and Joel and through our multitrack rehearsals we were able to get a deal with Relapse Records. Two months later we had our first show with Gadget and then recorded what became our debut album "The Contaminated Void".

Everything went very fast for this band and I am so happy about this achievement during 2006. Not in my wildest dreams could I have expected something like this to happen.

The future for Coldworker - as the name of the band is - is very bright and I hope that the band will grow during this coming year.

Do buy The Contaminated Void if you haven't heard it yet, and check out www.coldworker.com for more info.

What else has happened? Well, in December I had two sessions with Regurgitate as a recording engineer putting 16 songs to disc, to be used on splits and whatever. The recording is in the mixing stage right now and I think it sounds pretty cool. I guess you'll hear samples of it in time."

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