Human 2.0 is an album from Swedish grindcore

Grindcore

Grindcore is an extreme genre of music that started in the early- to mid-1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres – including death metal, industrial music, noise and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....

 band Nasum

Nasum

Nasum was a political Swedish band that played a mixture of grindcore and death metal. The band's name, meaning 'nose', was taken from the horror film Flesh for Frankenstein.-Biography:...

. 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 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

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, Relapse

Relapse Records

Relapse Records is an independent record label based in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. It was founded by Matthew F. Jacobson in 1990.-History:The label was started by Matthew F. Jacobson in August, 1990 in his parents' basement in Aurora, Colorado...

 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 for the Japanese release and make it "Human 2.01", with additional bonus tracks.

The album contains a number of references to popular culture. "Resistance" uses a quote from the movie The Matrix

The Matrix

The Matrix is a 1999 science fiction-action film written and directed by Larry and Andy Wachowski, starring Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Anne Moss, Joe Pantoliano, and Hugo Weaving...

: "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" uses the quote "Welcome to the desert of the real". In "Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow", the beginning quote is from the movie The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption

The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 American drama film written and directed by Frank Darabont and starring Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman....

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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