Asleep in the Ashes Reviews in Terrorizer and Razorcake!

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From Terrorizer No. 193
NUX VOMICA:
‘Asleep in the Ashes’
Aborted Society
The band now known as Nux Vomica began in bullet-ridden Baltimore before peacing out to the much greener pastures of Oregon several years later.  The suffocating social and economic problems that plague the city of its birth are reflected in the sludgy, strung out swaths of doomy crust punk that populate ‘Asleep in the Ashes’, while the progressive-minded West Coast gently makes its presence known in the album’s experimental, melodic, genre-bending.  Nux Vomica play a swirling mix of melodic death, crust, ambient, and doom that not only manages to make sense of itself, but works so beautifully and with such raw cathartic honesty that it’ll damn near bring you to your knees. Epic, cohesive, and remarkably innovative for a band that pledges to “up the fucking punx by any means necessary”, ‘Asleep…’ is an absolute gem of an album and one that deserves boatloads more attention.

[9] Kim Kelly

From Razorcake http://www.razorcake.org/site/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=21743
NUX VOMICA:
Asleep in the Ashes: CD
I thought this was an EP when I saw that there were only six songs. I was wrong on all fronts. This thing clocks in a bit over an hour or so. But surprisingly enough, it was not a labored effort. It’s a genre melting pot of epic storytelling soundscapes. You get everything from crust, black metal, punk, and rock with everything in between. Fast, slow, medium. It runs the gamut for a tonal adventure. The music is not pretty by any means, but it does take you on an adventure of sound. Production-wise, I was surprised by the brightness of the recording. I was expecting more of the dark, bottom-heavy sound. But this has a more open and widespread sound of guitar gushing from the speakers, giving the music a speck of hope. That’s not common among many contemporary bands that they may play along with. I saw the band live when they came through my town on tour recently. Hearing these songs live was eye opening. Also seeing them a few years prior showed that they are a band that definitely has come into their own. –Donofthedead (Aborted Society)

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