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Can anyone offer praise or criticism on these guys?

― Shaun McCormack (shaun), Friday, 14 March 2003 22:46 (twenty-three years ago)

Praise:

Saw them live and they had a drummer and, I think, an electric bass player and I violinist. They were very fast and very good. High speed matally punky chamber orchestra-ish.

Bought a 7 inch there, it's all they need for a complete album because the songs are so short. Very different, lots of cheap copmputer midi sounds, lots of keyboards and a cover of a napalm death song and Europe's The Final Countdown. Also very good.

― mei (mei), Saturday, 15 March 2003 08:13 (twenty-three years ago)

saw the thread title and thought, "wow, that person really cannot spell nougat."

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 15 March 2003 08:23 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know anything about the band, but I think I heard something about a record coming out on Load.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:35 (twenty-three years ago)

From the Load site:

Hailing from Norway, NOXAGT have come to burn your dirty soul. Three piece in the Bass, violin, and drums format. This record is heavier than all the weight Richard Simmons lost before becoming the annoying skinny man he is. Produced by BILLY ANDERSON (SLEEP, HIGH ON FIRE, NEUROSIS), this record is a pummeling masterpiece. Songs that breathe through their mouth very loudly. Noxagt is at the forefront of the Nor-Wave movement that takes cues from the American wrecking units like LIGHTNING BOLT and PINK AND BROWN and adds a distinctly Norwegian heavy slant.

Liner Notes by STEFAN JAWORZTYN of WHITEHOUSE.

NOXAGT member Kjetil Bransdal has numerous records out on Ecstatic Peace and Corpus Hermiticum and was recently profiled in the Wire.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Saturday, 15 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Noxagt is how you spell it,

I have no idea what 'matally' means or what a 'copmputer ' might be though.

― mei (mei), Sunday, 16 March 2003 19:08 (twenty-three years ago)

when the hell was stefan jawortzyn in whitehouse, anyway?

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 17 March 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

apparently he was a member in '84 and '90 (his name appears as being involved in Live Actions around that time)

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:48 (twenty-three years ago)

ahh...i always forget those skullflower kids were hovering around the whitehouse/consumer electronics/come scene.

― your null fame (yournullfame), Monday, 17 March 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

I'm listening to my copy of Iron Point this morning and feeling better about having bought it than I did last time I had it on. I need to have something like this around when the mood strikes me. I am playing it this morning because my landlord is bringing people to look at my apartment, against my will. AGAINST MY WILL! AGAINST MY WILL!

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Sunday, 19 March 2006 15:30 (twenty years ago)

Great band. Wouldlove to see them live. 1st album is still my favourite though.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:24 (twenty years ago)

Instrumental (right? or at least instrumental-seeming) art-metal without the guitars. I liked the first album (or EP?) when it came out, at least when I was playing it; when not being played, it was difficult to remember what the hell it sounded like. It's gone now (and the followup, I'm pretty sure, wasn't as interesting), but their poster is still on my office wall.

― xhuxk, Monday, 20 March 2006 02:28 (twenty years ago)

(EP, I guess: *Turning It Down Since 2001,* Load, 2003. Their US debut CD, apparently. On the album they followed it with, they stretched out, and had trouble holding my attention.)

― xhuxk, Monday, 20 March 2006 02:35 (twenty years ago)

It's an album, Chuck. I did see a 50 track thing on slsk way back. full of very short songs. I think Gemm.com did have a few a couple of years ago but I never got it. So maybe thats actually the 1st album?

Turning It Down Since 2001 is the 1st album I heard by them anyway. I like the last album but it just wasnt as good as that one.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 20 March 2006 02:39 (twenty years ago)

>It's an album, Chuck.<

Yeah, I guess you're right; my math was off. It's an album, but it's a short one -- adding in my head and judging from AMG songlengths, *Turning It Down* runs around 29 minutes and *Iron Point* what, around 34? So okay, not that big a difference, maybe. But for whatever reason, the novelty had worn off by time that followup came out.

― xhuxk, Monday, 20 March 2006 02:50 (twenty years ago)

Iron Point has guitars. If they weren't guitars, what were they? (They weren't bazoukis!)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

I think that 50 track album was even shorted than those albums, chuck!
I'm pretty sure its self-titled. I probably have it on my drive somewhere. I'll dig it out in the morning.

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 20 March 2006 03:26 (twenty years ago)

the guitar on Iron Point is a bass guitar

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Monday, 20 March 2006 09:47 (twenty years ago)

they're pretty damn good live. but as xhuhxk it didn't feel as fresh on Iron Point anymore, Turning It Down Since 2001 is great though

― rizzx (rizzx), Monday, 20 March 2006 10:00 (twenty years ago)

They were awesome live in 2003.
Bass Drums Viola. Would like to hear/see more.

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:51 (twenty years ago)

By the time I saw them last year, the viola player had left the band and had been replaced by a baritone guitarist (the guy from Ultralyd) which changed their sound pretty dramatically (gone are all the folk elements, alas). Still pretty lumpy and rockin', tho. I'm not sure what next for Noxagt.

― myopic_void (myopic_void), Monday, 20 March 2006 16:09 (twenty years ago)

four weeks pass...

Noxagt
s/t
LOAD 069 CD
Dangerous dirge blasts out of the tail pipe of Norway’s ghost rider band Noxagt’s third and self titled record. Gone is the Nil’s Erga’s viola that led the chariot races on the last two NOXAGT records on LOAD, replaced with Anders Hana (of ULTRALYD) on spring loaded guitar. Where as the past two records flung tarballs at the idea of hard rock in the 21st century, this third record crawls from the ooze with a determined and wiry intent to bring you to your knees with stark riff power and bludgeoning rhythmic density.
This is Noxagt’s strangest turn from instrumental sludge helmeted Vikings to staple jointed snake running dunt rock doctors. Fans of past records will find a lot to wrap their brows around with this record, and new fans will take note of the wiry riffs emitting from this Norse carriage.

Past titles have picked up fans in many of the musik camps of the 21st century world village including: jean jacketed metal hordes, ripped sweater wearing art fucks, and regular bricklayers like you. Be one of the many, be one of the proud but do not miss this bus.

Anyone heard it yet?

― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 19 April 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

thirteen years pass...

https://hominidsounds.bandcamp.com/album/burning-axis

With that in mind, we are thrilled to be releasing the debut full-length LP by Noxagt-alumni in the form of new band 'Burning Axis'. Joining forces with a member of 'Golden Oriole' (and of course, featuring a member of 'No Balls'

superb is this!

― calzino, Monday, 17 June 2019 14:04 (six years ago)

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