NOFX are not done closing chapters yet. Following their Punk Rock Museum event, the band has announced a new documentary titled 40 Years of Fuckin Up, set to premiere March 15 in Texas. The film is directed by James Buddy Day and produced by Fat Mike, and it promises to do what NOFX have always done best: tell their story without pretending it was clean, easy, or unified.
The title alone makes the intent clear. This is not a polished legacy piece or a feel-good recap of punk milestones. It is framed as a long look at four decades of chaos, bad decisions, internal conflicts, and stubborn survival. That framing feels honest for a band that spent its entire career mocking its own success while reshaping punk rock from the inside.
One detail stands out immediately. All four members of NOFX are credited as Executive Producers, including Eric Melvin, despite his ongoing legal dispute with Fat Mike. That alone suggests the documentary will not ignore the fractures that ultimately helped bring the band to an end. If anything, it points toward a film that acknowledges how complicated and damaged the internal relationships became over time.
James Buddy Day is not a random pick behind the camera. He has documented the band closely for years, often during moments when things were far from stable. That kind of access matters here. Combined with Fat Mike’s role as producer, the documentary is positioned closer to a confession than a celebration. Expect real footage, uncomfortable conversations, and very little attempt to smooth over the uglier parts.
The timing also feels deliberate. The Punk Rock Museum exhibit preserves NOFX as history, artifacts, flyers, photos, demos. This documentary looks like the other side of that coin, the emotional cost of keeping the band alive for forty years. What it took mentally, physically, and personally to keep doing it without buses, without safety nets, and without ever pretending everyone got along.
The Texas premiere adds another layer of irony given the band’s long, messy relationship with the state, politically and culturally. It feels on-brand for NOFX to debut their final statement somewhere that has never been neutral ground for them.
For now, no wider release details have been announced. What is clear is that 40 Years of Fuckin Up is not being sold as a reunion, a victory lap, or a goodbye hug. It looks more like a final accounting. A band acknowledging what they built, what they broke, and what they barely survived.
If this really is one of the last things NOFX do together, it makes sense that it comes wrapped in honesty, tension, and unresolved baggage. That has always been the band’s real legacy anyway.
