NOMA FORMED IN 2000 FROM SCRAPS OF THREE OTHER COLDWATER, MICHIGAN BANDS: RAT SCUM CANCER FUCK, INFRACTION, AND DROPSY. THEY WANTED TO BE KIND OF LIKE SYSTEM OF A DOWN WHEN THEY STARTED, BUT WHEN KEVIN AND LEVI BOTH DISCOVERED REAL MUSIC LIKE CONVERGE, DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, AND TODAY IS THE DAY, THEY QUICKLY REALIZED HOW LAME THEIR TASTES WERE, AND KEVIN WROTE SOME BETTER SONGS. LEVI BAILEY (VOCALS), ERIK DEGROOT (BASS), KEVIN USHER (GUITAR), AND MATT BUDD (DRUMS), MADE UP THE FIRST LINEUP. IAN WALLING, AND THEN BRANDEN MINNEAR, WOULD REPLACE MATT BUDD OVER THE COURSE OF THE BAND'S EXISTENCE.

NOMA'S LIVE SHOWS WERE ALL ABOUT LOTS OF MOVEMENT, CHAOS, AND MAKING THE AUDIENCE FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE. TIRED OF SEEING BANDS THAT "JUST STOOD THERE", NOMA DECIDED TO INSTEAD ASSAULT THE AUDIENCE WITH THEIR NOISE, SPIT, AND VOMIT. LICKGOLDENSKY, WHO NOMA HAD THE PLEASURE OF OPENING FOR ONE NIGHT AT THE ELBOW ROOM, WAS A STRONG INFLUENCE, MAINLY BECAUSE OF THE STORIES LEVI AND KEVIN WOULD READ ABOUT ALEXANDER'S ONSTAGE ANTICS.

NOWADAYS, IN TODAY'S BLOWN-OUT, OVEREXPOSED, OVERSATURATED MUSICAL CLIMATE, ANY ASSHOLE WITH A GUITAR CAN START A "METAL BAND" AND THROW HIMSELF AROUND WHILE SOME OTHER JACKASS SCREAMS/GROWLS/READS POETRY, SO THE PHYSICAL THEATRICS AND EAR-SPLITTING NOISE THAT NOMA WAS KNOWN FOR MIGHT SEEM LIKE OLD NEWS. IN THEIR PRIME, THOUGH, NOMA WAS A SLOPPY, ANGRY, BEAUTIFUL THING TO SEE IN TWENTY-MINUTE BURSTS...OR SOMETHING...WHO THE FUCK CARES? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU READING THIS SHIT?

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