stum started out in september 1999 as a creative project by david engdahl and daniel sidevärn. under the name industrijugend, daniel and david recorded a couple of songs that was sounding more industrial/ebm and almost the opposite of how stum sounds today. they didn't feel too comfortable with the image/sound so they made some tracks that was more 'straight from the heart'. suddenly industrijugend felt like a really stupid and misleading name and 2001 they changed it to stum ('mute' in swedish).stum recruited daniel dlimi on guitars and now he's one of the creative forces behind stum.
stum is currently in the studio creating their debute album.