Orvar Säfström was session vocalist of Entombed for the Crawl 12" and performed live with them for a whole tour.

Nirvana 2002 monicker came from two earlier names of the project: The first was Prophet 2002, then changed to Nirvana. A little bit later the band from Seattle called Nirvana released its 1st 7"EP on SubPop, so they added the previous suffix 2002: this was long before most people had heard of Nirvana and Kurt Cobain.

They appeared in the legendary CBR compilation Projections of a Stained Mind with the track "Mourning".
In 1992 the band had some offers for an album by Deaf and Necrosis Records, but then they took different ways and split-up; In 2001 a CD with all their material was close to being released by Relapse, but nothing happened.

On 26 jan 2007 they played their 1st gig ever in the release party of the Swedish Death Metal book. Erik couldn't be there and he's been replaced by the old friend of the band Robert Eriksson of The Hellacopters.

Relapse Records finally release the collection of the old recordings in November 2009.
In 2010 Erik Wallin from Merciless (Swe) joined the band as second guitar for some live shows.