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NUX VOMICA

tour ruled.

About Me

Nux Vomica has been going since late 2003. We are originally from Baltimore, MD. and are now located in Portland, OR. Our 7"ep "The Uninspired" is available from www.firestarterrecords.com. Our LP/CD "A Civilized World" is out now and available from www.abortedsociety.com. Our split 7" with KAKISTOCRACY is out now and available from humdinger records. All are also available from other fine punk/hc/metal distros.

We have several upcoming releases: A 2-song 7" with Profane Existence, a split 10" with the Makai, and a split LP with WAKE UP ON FIRE with Aborted Society Records. We have also recorded what we hope to release as a double lp, 7 songs totaling over 60 minutes.

Ex members of Wake up on Fire, 2am Revolution, Ochlocracy, Apache Resistance, Control, Fallujah, Stave, Label Me Dead, Free to Die, Cognitive Dissonance, Creed, Stone Temple Pilots, Slipknot, Kid n' Play, and Sonny and Cher. And if you count our roadie, Dave Tedder, A//Political.

Current members of 57 Octaves Below, Machine Gun Congress, Deadpan Pariah, Back Alley Justice, and Rotting Sky. Tim Messing also has a solo project he likes to call "Tim Messing".
Review in Terrorizer:
Nux Vomica
"A Civilized World"
Aborted Society
The cover art signifies everything seductive and objectionable about political crust metal/punk, in a very intimate sense. This romantic view of the self as part of a hunted, outnumbered tribe of rainbow warriors, stumbling among the ruins of the promise of enlightenment and progress, broken foundations, broken hearts, looking around us in a mix of rage and disbelief coupled with the horrible realization that we aren't different. We too are infected. The lyrics prove more subtle than what may be expected, and the music backing it a formidable, passionate, crushing, and suprisingly crisp-sounding metalised crust, which occasionally dares to be melodic and even introspective. And if better days will indeed never be, there is still nobility in wishing to the contrary and giving it a sound.
(7) Avi Pitchon
Nux Vomica - A Civilized World CD Aborted Society RecordsI'm gonna be honest. Since I got this record from Aborted Society, I have listened to it almost every singel day and I have to add that I got this record a while ago. That alone proves that this is a solid record because I grow tired of a record so fast if I listen to it too much and it doesn't have that extra special that makes me go crazy. Anyway, I think where Nux Vomica got me was somewhere between my weakness for Iron Maiden, At the Gates and melancholic bands like Remains of the Day. I'm talking about melodic hardcore punk with an impending metal feel to it. I know you've read that before a thousand times in reviews and descriptions about bands but Nux Vomica has a different approach to these features which I find very refreshing and enjoyable. Ca 31 minutes of piercing guitar leads, devastating vocals, powerfull basslines and insane druming with gloomy acoustic breakdowns. This made it to my "best of 2007" releases. Do yourself a favour and check this band out. Read the lyrics while you indulge in Nux Vomica's debut full length. [Sonny Subvert]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/1/2005
Band Website: This is it dude
Band Members: Just Dave - voice/majority of lyrics/percussion/sampling/exotic old man

Tim Messing (his pants) - guitar/voice/the most talented and forgetful of us all

BASS - currently working on that...

Good Ol' Cut Practice Short, dropping his sticks, falling in holes Zack- drums/keeping us punk/sensitive crashes on broken cymbals/ slim jims, fast food trash, raw hot dogs ...worst health ever

Chris Control - guitar/voice/wrote a couple words/mountain dew stressed out and get shit done van driver/ direct quote: "As soon as I taste the mountain dew everything feels better."

Dave Tedder - Roadie/Merch Girl/Gossip Columns/Honest Opinions/Scene Cred./ greatist roadie that ever lived like that guy from Wayne's World 2
Influences: Musically: all types of metal, punk, crust, and independent rock music....especially the melodic, epic, dark, and atmospheric.Lyrically: Citizen Fish/Dick Lucas, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Dead Silence, They Might Be Giants, Smiths/Morrissey, Crass, Rudimentary Peni, Dystopia, His Hero Is Gone, NKOTB, Dixie Chicks, Britney, Whitney
Sounds Like: GUY AT THE SPORTS BAR: "like Tool? you guys sound like Tool?"CHRIS: "i dunno..fuck...i guess...sure, we sound like a punk rock Tool with screaming."GUY AT THE SPORTS BAR: "i fucking love Tool"CHRIS: "yeah, me too."
Record Label: Aborted Society, Humdinger, Firestarter
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Newest Lyrics

THE INVASION Crushing everything in sight, the invaders begin their bloody onslaughtThey scratch and scrape and cut and pick at the ground, the trees, the rocks, the streams, and every living thingPok...
Posted by NUX VOMICA on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:11:00 PST

MORE LYRICS

All The Clocks Have Different Times(humans think they can control time, but really no one knows how to describe what time actually is) The strangest thing was realizedBy a thoroughly depressed, detach...
Posted by NUX VOMICA on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 10:30:00 PST

farewell show...

Fuck, last night was awesome. I can't even begin to describe how it felt to us. People really fucking like us, and it's exhilirating, scary, and totally insane to be on a stage while all these people ...
Posted by NUX VOMICA on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 08:00:00 PST