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Nux Vomica – Asleep in the Ashes (Aborted Society)

“Melodic death metal/Crust”? i thought Metal Archives was putting me on when I first looked up Portland-by-way-of-Baltimore’s Nux Vomica, but as soon as the first plaintive chords and hushed vocal samples on ‘Asleep in the Ashes’ gave way to the ominous tones, frenzied d-beats, and tortured screams of twelve-minute epic “Corpses With Egos,” I knew I’d stumbled across something special. Nux Vomica effortlessly combine the best bits of doom, crust, psychedelia, post-rock, black metal, and, yes, melodic death metal to create something achingly honest, and entirely their own.