NOFX are opening the vaults and turning the camera fully on themselves. The long-running punk institution has announced a feature-length documentary titled “40 Years of Fuckin’ Up,” a no-filter chronicle of the band’s rise from reckless teenage outsiders to one of punk’s most enduring and unapologetic acts.

Revealed by frontman and founding member Fat Mike during the band’s exhibition at The Punk Rock Museum, the film is currently in post-production and promises a brutally honest portrait of life lived at full volume. By Mike’s own admission, nothing has been cleaned up or cut for comfort.

The documentary leans into the chaos: addiction, excess, humiliation, self-sabotage, and survival, all presented with the same irreverence that has defined NOFX for four decades. The recently unveiled trailer offers a glimpse into that unvarnished approach, setting the tone for a film that refuses restraint or revisionism.

Directed by James Buddy Day, “40 Years of Fuckin’ Up” brings together firsthand accounts from the band’s core lineup, Eric Melvin, Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta, and Erik Sandin, each of whom also serves as an executive producer alongside Gary Ousdahl, Cisco Adler, Jon Nadeau, and Day himself under the Pyramid Productions banner. The result is an all-access narrative built from decades of archival footage, personal testimony, and moments that were never meant to be preserved, let alone shared.

Beyond documenting the past, the film also delivers something new. Exclusive NOFX music will debut only at in-person screenings, turning each showing into a one-off event rather than a passive viewing. Sneak preview screenings are scheduled for March 15–16 at Brushy Street Commons in Austin, Texas, followed by a wider rollout in curated theaters worldwide beginning in April.

For director James Buddy Day, the experience was as intense as the material itself. Working alongside NOFX meant confronting a story that is chaotic, raw, often painful, and unmistakably human. That refusal to soften the edges is precisely what gives “40 Years of Fuckin’ Up” its weight.

This isn’t a victory lap or a nostalgia exercise, it’s a document of endurance, damage, and the cost of doing everything the hard way, for forty years straight.

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