Black metal | Metal | Speed metal | Thrash
85%
Toxic Holocaust—An Overdose of Death… (2008)
Details
Recorded 11 to 20 May 2008 by Jack Endino at the Soundhouse, Seattle, WA. Released on Relapse Records.
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Band
- Joel Grind—Vocals, guitar and bass
- Donny Paycheck—Drums
Tracks
- Wild dogs
- Nuke the cross
- Endless armageddon
- Future shock
- War game
- In the name of science
- March from hell
- Gravelord
- War is hell
- The lord of the wasteland
- Feedback, blood, and distortion
- Death from above
- City of a million graves
Review
And the award for metal band logo that looks most like some kind of geometric shape jigsaw goes to… Toxic Holocaust, multi-instrumentalist Joel Grind’s speed/thrash/black metal outfit.
This is one of those albums that when I heard the first song my heart sank a little. Opening track “Wild dogs” isn’t entirely representative of the whole album. It has a bit of a raw, punk feel which contorts about halfway through into a fairly palatable early thrash-style riff.
But the rest of the album improves greatly. It has quite an old school thrash vibe to it, in the same way that Evile does. The more the album progressed the more I really began to get into it… riff after riff, twist after twist, classic 80s-style thrash with modern production.
Conclusion
If anything, in opinion this album could have done with a little editing, fewer tracks perhaps, to deliver a more consistent and focused album. As it is, it’s a pretty decent thrash album.
Review score: 85%