Joel Grind‘s Toxic Holocaust is back with a brain damaging new track from its new album, Chemistry of Consciousness
Toxic Holocaust‘s An Overdose of Death is a thrash-metal, punk-rock, face-peeling, metal-lover’s dream.
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Details emerge about new albums from Isis, Tortoise, Akron/Family, and Stinking Lizaveta; Zu announces some dates for a world tour (a pair of which are with Mike Patton); Dark Meat will go on tour with its 17 members; the Scion Rock Fest hosts a spate of crushing metal bands in Atlanta on February 28.
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Halloween is nearly here, and may we recommend a celebration that involves seeing GWAR and getting covered in fake blood? If that doesn’t float your gory boat, check out Ravish Momin’s Trio Tarana, the Graveface Records Day of the Dead showcase, or Italian noise-punk trio Zü.
When Joel Grind started Toxic Holocaust in Baltimore in 1999, he hadn’t counted on becoming an anomaly: a one-man speed-metal band. Jamie Ludwig catches up with Grind after the release of his third album, An Overdose of Death, by Relapse Records on September 2.