Toxik so nova potrjena skupina za festival Keep It True XVII. /P.G./

Kitarist Ralph Santolla (ex Obituary, ex Deicide, ...) se je pridružil ponovno obujenim thrasherjem Toxik, ki pripravljajo tretji studijski album. /P.G./

Medtem ko kanadska zasedba Lust Boys dela na novem materialu in še vedno išče vokalista, je njihov bivši frontman Jayme Black že ustanovil novo skupino z imenom The Toxiks. /B.B./

V zasedbi Mike Sanders (vokal), Josh Christian (kitara) in Brian Bonini (bas kitara) je ponovno aktivna skupina Toxik. Bobnar Tad Leger se zaradi zaposlenosti s skupino Lucertola bandu najverjetneje ne bo pridružil. /P.G./

Kanadska hard rock zasedba Famous Underground, ki jo vodi frontman Nicholas Walsh (ex-Slik Toxik), je podpisala za založbo Dust On The Tracks Records, pri kateri naj bi aprila izdala samonaslovljeni debitantski album. Prihajajoči studijski izdelek je produciral Nick Walsh, medtem ko je za miks poskrbel Darius Szczepaniak (Sum 41, The Black Crowes, Big Sugar, Sacrifice). /B.B./

Kanadski Dead Autumn so na svoji spletni strani v celoti objavili prvenec In Diseases She Waits iz leta 2006. Album je izšel v samozaložbi, sedaj pa ni več na voljo. Tracklista je sledeča:
Crimson Sky (After The Floods II)
The Blackened Ones
In Darkness
Forever It Rains
This Coldest Lake
Violent Sunset
Leviathan Swamp
The Blackened Ones II
Only Wretched
Intoxikate
/B.B./

Italijanski thraserji MadMaze bodo decembra pri Punishment 18 Records izdali prvenec z naslovom Frames Of Alienation. Naslovnico albuma bo oblikoval legendarni Ed Repka, najbolj poznan po delu za Death, Defiance, Atheist, Massacre, Megadeth, Toxik, Nuclear Assault, Vio-Lence in Municipal Waste. Tracklista je sledeča:
Walls Of Lies
Sacred Deceit
Mad Maze
Cursed Dreams
...Beyond (Instrumental)
Caught In The Net
Lord Of All That Remains
MK-Ultra
Retribution
/B.B./

Ta teden novo v On Parole trgovini: CD-ji (Anthrax, Asphyx, Atheist, Aura Noir, Behemoth, Blaze Bayley, Blind Illusion, Cult Of Luna, Death, Dismember, Electric Wizard, End Of Green, Exodus, Galhammer, Girlschool, Heathen, Hypocrisy, Iced Earth, M.O.D., Macabre, Obituary, Overkill, Paradise Lost, Peccatum, Sahg, Sear Bliss, Toxik, Vreid, W.A.S.P.), vinili (Agent Steel, Anaal Nathrakh, Burzum, Dimmu Borgir, Fear Factory, Grand Magus, Hammerfall, Hellhammer, Iced Earth, Judas Priest, Municipal Waste, Nachtmystium, Obituary, Onslaught, Possessed, Rage, Sacred Reich, Satyricon, Slayer, Venom, Voivod), merchandise (Angel Witch, Bloodbath, Carcass, Dream Theater, Dying Fetus, Electric Wizard, Hail Of Bullets, Katatonia, Keep Of Kalessin, King Diamond, Machine Head, Mastodon, Onslaught, Sarcofago, Shining, Taake, Type O Negative, Voivod) in tudi nekaj knjig. Več na www.on-parole.com. /M.P.C./

Ta teden novo v On Parole trgovini: CD-ji in/ali vinili bandov Ancestral Legacy, Artillery, Autopsy, Behemoth, Burzum, Cannibal Corpse, Crowbar, Cruachan, Cynic, Darkthrone, Dismember, Dissection, Enemy Of The Sun, Fear Factory, Grand Magus, King Diamond, Lääz Rockit, Lividity, Mayhem, Mercyful Fate, Mourning Beloveth, My Dying Bride, Nachtmystium, Nuclear Assault, Obituary, Onslaught, Seraphim, Taake, The Thorns, Thorngoth, Tiamat, Toxik, Voivod, Witchfinder General in Zyklon ter merchandise Absu, Anaal Nathrakh, Bathory, Behemoth, Burzum, Corpus Christii, Death, Deathstars, Emperor, Enslaved, Grand Magus, Ihsahn, Machine Head, Mayhem, Megadeth, Obituary, Satyricon in Watain. Več na www.on-parole.com.

Toxik bodo avgusta izdali dokumentarni DVD z naslovom Think Again. /P.G./

On Parole trgovina od danes naprej poleg novih albumov Burzuma, Rotting Christ in Shining nudi tudi CD-je in/ali vinile bandov Arcturus, At The Gates, Behemoth, Cannibal Corpse, Carpathian Forest, Cradle Of Filth, Darkthrone, Death, Dismember, Entombed, Forbidden, Gorgoroth, Graveworm, Heathen, Judas Priest, King Diamond, Manowar, Master, Opeth, Overkill, Saint Vitus, Solefald, Testament, Toxik, Ulver, Vader, W.A.S.P. in Windir. Več informacij pri vašem najljubšem metal dealerju na www.on-parole.com. /M.P.C./

Založba AFM Records bo 15. maja izdala kompilacijo z naslovom Thrash ’Til Death, na katerem bodo nasledje skupine in skladbe:
CD 1: CD 2:
Sodom - Agent Orange (live), Hobb's Angel Of Death - Jack The Ripper, Nuclear Assault - Critical Mass (live), Toxik - Heart Attack, Forte - Inhuman, Living Death - Die Young, Onslaught - Let There Be Death (live), Destroyer - Australian & Antichrist, Demolition Hammer - .44 Caliber Brain Surgery, Heathen - Hypnotized, Annihilator - Alison Hell (live), Mekong Delta - Innocent, Anthrax - Indians, Evildead - Welcome To Kuwait, Whiplash - Thrash Til' Death.
/P.G./

Pri Displeased Records bodo decembra izdali Toxik DVD Dynamo Open Air 1988. Na njem bo njihov nastop na znamenitem festivalu leta 1988 ter koncert v Dynamo clubu dva dni pred festivalom. Na voljo bo tudi box s CD in DVDjem v omejeni nakladi 2.000 izvodov. Track lista:
Dynamo Open Air festival in Eindhoven, Holland - May 23, 1988:
Heart Attack, Social Overload, Symptom of the Universe, Voices, Door to Hell, World Circus, 47 Seconds of Sanity / Count Your Blessings, False Prophets, Haunted Earth, Victims.
Dynamo club in Eindhoven, Holland – May 21, 1988:
Heart Attack, Social Overload, Symptom of the Universe, Voices, Door to Hell, World Circus, 47 Seconds of Sanity / Count Your Blessings, False Prophets, Haunted Earth, Victim of Changes, Victims, Evil Woman, Spontaneous. /M.P./

Toxik so odpovedali nastop na novembrskem Keep It True 9 festivalu. Namesto njih bodo nastopili Danci Evile. /M.P./

Ponovno združeni Toxik iščejo novega basista, ker se Brain Bonini zaradi osebnih razlogov ne more udeležiti jesenske evropske turneje. /M.P./