Dallas Toler-Wade
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Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.
Dallas Toler-Wade | |
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 Toler-Wade in 2011 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | June 6, 1974 Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Genres | Death metal, thrash metal |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, guitars, drums |
| Years active | 1985–present |
| Labels | Nuclear Blast, Megaforce (MRI) |
Dallas Toler-Wade (born June 6, 1974) is an American musician, best known for his work as guitarist, vocals and music writer in the ancient Egyptian-themed technical death metal band Nile. He is currently the guitarist, lead vocalist and primary songwriter of the metal band Narcotic Wasteland.
Toler-Wade started playing the drums at seven-years old. At the age of fourteen, he started learning to play the guitar. His career started as a drummer for the Greenville, South Carolina-based technical death metal band Lecherous Nocturne. During his tenure there, he was recommended to Karl Sanders of Nile and subsequently joined the band in September 1997 as a guitarist and vocalist.[1]
Toler-Wade is credited with writing the music for many of Nile's songs during his tenure. Below is a list of songs for which he composed the music:
- "Multitude of Foes"
- "Supreme Humanism of Megalomania"
- "The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh"
- "Natural Liberation of Fear Through the Ritual Deception of Death"
- "Execration Text"
- "Wind of Horus"
- "Invocation to Seditious Heresy"
- "The Burning Pits of the Duat"
- "Lashed to the Slave Stick"
- "As He Creates So He Destroys"
- "The Essential Salts"
- "The Language of the Shadows"
- "Utterances of the Crawling Dead"
- "Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld"
- "The Eye of Ra"
- "Liber Stellae Rubeae"
- "Evil to Cast Out Evil"
- "Rape of the Black Earth"
Additionally, Toler-Wade co-wrote the music for "User Maat Re" alongside Karl Sanders.
He left the band in October 2016. Nile announced the departure in February 2017.[2]
Toler-Wade started Narcotic Wasteland as a side project in 2014, but it became his full-time project once he left Nile in 2016. Narcotic Wasteland has released two albums. The first album is self-titled and the second is titled Delirium Tremens. Both albums were released through Megaforce Records. Narcotic Wasteland is signed with the talent agency Ashley Talent International, LLC.
