NuxVomica

"We have a ton of music ready to record, and we're touring Europe in November!" Nux Vomica drummer tells Noisecreep excitedly. The Portland, Ore.-based experimental melodic death/crust punk band have been keeping busy bumming out genre purists and making themselves at home in their adopted city -- and they're clearly excited for whatever's coming next...

Portland-based melodic death/crust punk genre-manglers Nux Vomica have gotten a lot of grief for their newer material. In the basement-bred, anti-everything crust punk community, changing up your sound or allowing melody to creep into your compositions raises a red flag...

Portland-via-Baltimore crust collective Nux Vomica are a strange beast. Their sound draws from a variety of genres -- elements of crust punk, melodic death metal, black metal, doom and post-rock can are swirled together carefully, artfully and, at times, with reckless abandon...