Description
ABSOC 016
NUX VOMICA – Asleep in the Ashes 2xLP/CD
Release Date
August 2009
Pressing Info
500 on Gatefold custom splatter 2x vinyl w/ booklet
500 CDs in standard jewel cases
100 Cassettes in green shells w/ color J-Card
REVIEWS
MRR #328 October 2010
NUX VOMICA – “Asleep in the Ashes” 2xLP
The second Lp by Portland’s NUX VOMICA is an expansive, impressive effort featuring just six songs over two full albums that last more than an hour. These songs are pretty “Cradle to the Grave” style- progressively diverse within themselves, raging from mid-tempo rockin’ punk to thundering metal to snippets of GUYANA PUNCH LINE-ish bursts of scathing thrash, to sky-opening epic crust riffs and bleak ambient, psychedelic passages. The vocals are full-on gnarled scratching screech a la WORD SALAD, but with detailed, thoughtful lyrics about the environment, decay and colonialization… An always solid recording from the Jam Room sets a foundation for this commanding adventure of sound, packaged in a nicely painted gatefold sleeve with splattered vinyl. (KS)
(Aborted Society)
Dusted Magazine: Still Single Vol. 6 No. 14
Nux Vomica
Asleep in the Ashes 2xLP
(Aborted Society)
Big, lumbering, dirge-ridden metal with lots of diabolical, mournful chordery, and a shitload of changes in each of the six tracks presented here. Portland’s Nux Vomica lines up death metal with a little commercial BM counterparts and some thrash and d-beat elements to play this game where they keep switching it up in longform, plenty heavy epics. I know that the length of these songs is probably appealing to their fans, and if they could convince someone to release a beautiful gatefold sleeve and double splatter vinyl for them, I’m sure those fans exist. They get some Isis/early Pelican tribal moments going on in their instrumental “Walk Through the Ashes,” but the metal comes back and the band does not let you forget why they do what they do. Nice package, includes a booklet and very pretty colored vinyl. (http://www.abortedsociety.com)
(Doug Mosurock)
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.
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