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The echoes coming from the chugging guitars reminded one of a seemingly endless march of soldiers, instead of marching, however, it feels like running in panic. Clean vocalist George "Percy" Shelley sings the opening lines of the new song, "O how I love you darling/when my heart has been ripped out/by your soft words that kill/I'll never forget this one little bit!" This leads into the band chanting "This is such BULLSHIT" several times. All the while weird, atmospheres are being created by the sampling of the sounds of ocean waves, mixed with the keyboard playing of Katherine Beaufort. The song altogether, while no doubt brutal, also gives the listener a bit of an eerily pleasant instrumentation coming from the background.

"We just want to make different music," says German Hernandez, lead guitarist. "If that means we need to use sounds and influences from other groups and scenes, then so be it." Non Crux came from the ashes of popular underground bands Escapegoats and Young Arrivals. George Shelley, then only the bassist for Escapegoats, and German the band's guitarist, met Victor Croft, former singer for Young Arrivals, at a local concert earlier this year. "These guys were going crazy in the pit," says Victor, also the sampler for the band. "I asked them during one of the intermissions if they were apart of the scene, mostly out of curiosity and cause no one slams like that without being in a band, and well that's where it all happened."

Back at the concert, a pit has formed and local kids are dancing like they are having muscle spasms. "I never meant to hurt you/I'm sorry for the way/That I threw you away" goes the spoken word part for Katherine Beaufort. She speaks so elegantly and sincerely, only to have that bit torn down by the almost demonic screeching of Victor, "I gave you my life/I will take it back!" The song then shows German and John Byron's, the rhythm guitarist/cellist, skills as they go into a speedy and elegant twin guitar solo. Irwin O'Brien, the band's drummer, then goes back and forth between his crash cymbal and double bass pedal.

The song then ends on somewhat of a cliffhanger, possibly signaling it will go into the next song on the album it is planned on being a part of. "We have only just begun," says Irwin. "I think that if we start talking about the future album now, we will never enjoy the early stages of our career."

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