The title pretty much sums it up. The upcoming China tour is canceled and the band has fallen. All members will continue with music somewhere else.

17.4.2013

Nauzea – Modern Day Plague

Less than a couple of years old NAUZEA has released their debut album at their own expense and it is no wonder because the commercial potential of the album is pretty well hidden but it does not mean that the album is bad in a musical sense. Skillful playing and to put it mildly ambitious compositions have ended on the disc and the complexity of the songs is the topmost problem.

NAUZEA seems to be adventuring between power, progressive and melodic metal seemingly aimlessly.
They could try focusing on one instead of all of them and from what one can hear from the album technique is not a limiting factor for these guys. The drummers playing is accurate and the guitarists clearly bring their own perspective to the mix. Nice melodies have a shy feel to them and main focus is on the riffs. The singers voice is not aligned with the music and it seems a tad careless. It does not have the right feel to it to be called singing and it could use more power so that the screaming would be convincing.
On the other hand screaming or growling would not work with the music so the fuzzy vocals breathe life to the songs that they would lack otherwise.

Classifying the band is only a problem when you are reviewing them and even though the band has clearly got a direction of their own it would do them no harm and increase their chance of success to clarify their style to a certain genre.
A producer with powerful vision would serve the band well and let’s hope that things roll into the direction budget wise that it becomes possible for the band.

Overall score : 7 / 10

Review by : Ismo Karo / Imperiumi / 17.4.2013

Direct link: http://www.imperiumi.net/index.php?act=albums&id=14100

The site has been updated and we are back online. Enjoy the new layout.

The site will go down tonight at 16.00.

A renewed nauzea.com will be opened after the site has been updated.

Due to circumstances out of our control Janne is unable to fulfill his position as drummer of NAUZEA for the upcoming China tour.

Toni Paananen (R.O.C.K. , MALPRACTICE , HEVEIN) will be filling in as tour drummer.

Jon and Tomas was interviewed on radio X3M yesterday. You can listen to the interview by clicking the picture below. The interview starts at 1.40:00.

We will start writing a new album next week. Recordings for the follower for our just released “Modern Day Plague” will begin at the end of 2013.

Updates of the writing process will  be posted as they come.

Remember to buy Modern Day Plague from Recordshop X if you have not done it already. WORLDWIDE DELIVERY!

We have got our first review of the album…

Nauzea – Modern Day Plague

“The album is good, the songs are catchy and the feelings are there…” promises Helsinki based Nauzea about their debut “Modern Day Plague“. Quite quickly the band has released their first album as the band has been together since August 2011.
After a short intro the songs “Where The Brave May Live Forever” and “Modern Day Plague” immediately brings to mind the likes of Bullet For My Valentine and Trivium and I have to admit…the songs are catchy and the guitar solos show the band’s sense of melody.

The calmer song “All That’s Inside Of Me” is also successful composition wise but it’s the first song that reveals Nauzeas biggest weakness. Jon Ashes vocal abilities are in fact pretty much mediocre. He handles the most vocals of the album fairly decently but given the players skillful playing the listener would like to hear the vocals reaching to the same level. Listening to the disc gives the feeling that if they would have a better singer the listener would be blown away.

“Modern Day Plague” is a quite intact and a functional album and a nearly perfect debut from a band that is only a couple of years old.
The musicians dominate their instruments and their song writing abilities are good. Some minor things like the vocalist voice needs a workout and a few compositional parts need small fine-tuning but the basics of the band are at a very good level and with that little fine-tuning one could predict greater commercial success for the band.

Overall score : 7 ½ / 10

Review by : Toni Lehtonen / Kaaoszine.fi / 24.2.2013

Direct link: http://kaaoszine.fi/nauzea-modern-day-plague/

We are returning to China to headline a one month long tour this summer with BOB MALMSTRÖM, COPROLITH and DRILLER. The tour will begin in Beijing on May 24th and also end in Beijing on June 16th. We are super excited about this tour and the fact that we get to travel with these awesome bands.

16 cities, 16 venues and 10.000 miles.

We told earlier that we will release big news next week on Wednesday but we cannot do this because we are to anxious and cannot hold it back anymore we will go public with it TOMORROW on Monday at 9.00 AM