About
About the Site
EnterTheSoulAsylum.com is an unofficial fansite dedicated entirely to the American rock band Soul Asylum. We aim to be the most comprehensive, updated, and hospitable community for fans of Soul Asylum, old or new, and we will encourage discussion and activities related to the band wherever possible.
We started up in October 2007—exactly fifteen years since the release of Soul Asylum's double platinum-selling breakthrough album Grave Dancers Union—and there's no telling where we'll be in 2023.
About the Editors
Jakob Kallin, the webmaster of EnterTheSoulAsylum.com, is a 23-year-old student of computer science at the University of Gothenburg. He has been a passive fan of Soul Asylum ever since he first heard Runaway Train in the early '90s, and an active fan ever since he shook off his addiction to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the summer of 2006 and decided to find out more about the band that recorded the most beautiful song ever. A half-Swede with Polish blood, he currently lives in a one-room apartment in Gothenburg but occasionally visits his family in the city of Jönköping, Sweden. When he's not listening to Soul Asylum, he enjoys good movies, semi-good movies, and philosophical discussions about any topic imaginable (including semi-good movies). On the forum, Jakob uses the pseudonym Homesick.
Jim Metz, the co-administator and resident audio wizard of EnterTheSoulAsylum.com, is a 27-year-old student of geography from Northwest Suburban Chicago, Illinois. His love of Soul Asylum stems from his interest in "Weird Al" Yankovic, whose 1997 televison parody of Runaway Train led Jim to discover a new passion. (In fact, this was the focus of our first installment of Community Spotlight.) His prize achievements on the site include populating the discography database in less than a week and deciphering the lyrics to Soul Asylum's debut album Say What You Will, Clarence… Karl Sold the Truck, a task that few men (if any) have accomplished while still retaining their sanity. His interests apart from Soul Asylum, he describes it, are those of a "typical college kid": hanging out with friends, going out to the movies, audio (music)/video editing, and web surfing. Jim is also the moderator of the forum, where he is nicknamed Monolith Maniac.
Credits
There's a lot of stuff on this site that's made possible through the skilled work of others. Here's a partial listing of it:
- Information on the band's live performances made possible by the record-keeping of Todd Norman, Mike Wilson, and many other fans over the years.
- Picturesque wallpaper and wood textures by William Reynish and John Susek.
- "j.d." handwriting font by Steven J. Lundeen.
- Numerous photos of memorabilia from the Minnesota Historical Society.
Finally, none of this would be possible without the hard work of our favorite band, Soul Asylum, whose dedication over the past four decades has provided countless people from all over the world with tremendous joy. Thank you for everything!