NEX is latin and means "violent death". Back in 1991 a bunch of part-time smoking halfwits deemed this the perfect name for a band who aspired to play the fastest and most merciless Death Metal the world had ever seen.
However, they soon weren't satisfied with playing pure metal anymore, and when in 1993 a new singer and a new guitar player joined the band, the whole musical concept changed completely: from now on the band played a pretty danceable mix of Ragga, Punk, Metal, Rap and Ska and recorded a demotape called LIMP, which in 1995 hit the streets of their beautiful hometown Zürich and was followed by the first CD RUDI one year later. Both recordings received excellent reviews in Swiss and German (see the articles-section; all texts german only though) magazines and help NEX to get gigs with meanwhile nationwide known acts as Crank and Merfen Orange and the more Zürich-based Mona Lisa Overdrive, Finger and Artofex. They also managed to make acquaintance with the terrible german Bundesgrenzschutz (frontier police) as in '94 they played a small tour in the region of Stuttgart and in '98 went even further north to hit Frankfurt and its surroundings. But not even the most tremendous adventures in strange countries ever frightened NEX enough to prevent the band from always intrepidly exploring new and bizarre places; and so they ended up in such weird situations as being the background-combo to a promo-session of Snowboarding legend Sean Palmer, or twice even opener for Toni 'Swiss Beatle' Vescoli !
All happy times have to end at some point. NEX reached it in 1998, when immediately before the recordings of their second CD THE BURNING WHOLE OF THE INVISIBLE MAN, the long time bass player left the band and few months later the building the band used to rehearse in was torn down within a single month. In the following year various members of the band went abroad for study or occupational reasons, so NEX gigs got pretty rare during this period. Nonetheless the band somehow managed to establish a small, but strong cult following.
Finally, in 2000 NEX got back together, returned to play a few gigs in Switzerland and then went on to write new material and record it during the summer. Unfortunately, during the recordings enormous musical differences arose & consequently NEX split up in April 2001.
Of course, people who had been so busy making music all of their lives couldn't simply retire at this early age to hang out in swimming pools & ocaasionally show up at the Oscar Nominations. And so those members whose musical differences were small enough to still see each other without starting a fistfight got back together in Winter 2002/2003 to play a couple of gigs in der native country: the snowy mountains of Switzerland. We'll see what is to become of that...
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