Human 2.0

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Human 2.0
Human 2.0 cover
Studio album by Nasum
Released April 18, 2000
Recorded 2 - 17 October and 14 November - 6 December 1999
Genre Grindcore
Length 38:18
Label Relapse Records
Professional reviews
Nasum chronology
Inhale/Exhale
(1998)		 Human 2.0
(2000)		 Helvete
(2003)

Human 2.0 is an Album from a Swedish Grindcore band Nasum.

The band came up with the title during 1999 as a reference to some of the panic over issues such as the Y2K bug. The album was developed after the first "Matrix" movie.

For the album, the band decided that they wanted the cover to be white in order to stand out from the many dark album covers that other bands used.

Although the album Inhale/Exhale was never released in Japan, Relapse had made a deal with Ritual Records/Howling Bull for "Human 2.0". The band had already come up with the idea of updating the title to the Japanese release and make it "Human 2.01", with additional bonus tracks.

The album contains a number of references to popular culture. For example, the song "Resistance" uses a quote from the movie The Matrix: "I hate this place. This zoo. This prison. This reality, whatever you want to call it, I can't stand it any longer." The song "Sometimes Dead is Better" also uses the quote "Welcome to the desert of the real. Also, in the song "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow", the beginning quote is from the movie The Shawshank Redemption.

[edit] Track listing

  1. "Mass Hypnosis" – 1:03
  2. "A Welcome Breeze of Stinking Air" – 1:40
  3. "Fatal Search" – 0:27
  4. "Shadows" – 2:24
  5. "Corrosion" – 2:07
  6. "Multinational Murderers Network" – 2:18
  7. "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow" – 0:41
  8. "The Black Swarm" – 1:22
  9. "Sixteen" – 1:51
  10. "Alarm" – 2:12
  11. "Detonator" – 1:37
  12. "Gargoyles and Grotesques" – 1:01
  13. "När Dagarna..." – 0:59 (When the Days...)
  14. "Resistance" – 2:32
  15. "The Idiot Parade" – 1:33
  16. "Den Svarta Fanan" – 0:59 (The Black Banner)
  17. "We're Nothing But Pawns" – 0:49
  18. "Defragmentation" – 1:42
  19. "Sick System" – 0:18
  20. "The Professional League" – 2:38
  21. "Old and Tired?" – 1:12
  22. "Words to Die For" – 2:03
  23. "Riot" – 0:39
  24. "The Meaningless Trial" – 1:02
  25. "Sometimes Dead Is Better" – 2:57