Dallas Toler-Wade

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.

Dallas Toler-Wade
Toler-Wade in 2011
Background information
Born	(1974-06-06) June 6, 1974 (age 51) 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)

Biography

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.

Instrumentation

• Dean V
• Dean ML
• Dean Razorback
• B.C. Rich Ironbird
• Marshall JCM2000 DSL100 amplifiers
• Marshall 1960 columns
• Seymour Duncan SH-8 Invader
• Jackson Guitars King V JS32T
• Ernie Ball Strings
• SIT STRINGS custom gauge (13, 17, 26w, 36w, 46w, 70w)

Discography

Toler-Wade performing in 2007

Nile

Further information: Nile discography

• Black Seeds of Vengeance (2000, Relapse Records)
• In Their Darkened Shrines (2002, Relapse Records)
• Annihilation of the Wicked (2005, Relapse Records)
• Ithyphallic (2007, Nuclear Blast)
• Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009, Nuclear Blast)
• At the Gate of Sethu (2012, Nuclear Blast)
• What Should Not Be Unearthed (2015, Nuclear Blast)

Narcotic Wasteland

• Narcotic Wasteland (2014, Megaforce Records)
• Delirium Tremens (2017, Megaforce Records)
• Morality and the Wasp (single) (2022, Megaforce Records)
• The Best Times Have Passed (single) (2022, Megaforce Records)
• Victims of the Algorithm (single) (2022, Megaforce Records)
• Sex Lies and DNA (single) (2023, Megaforce Records)
• Barbarian (single) (2024, Megaforce Records)

Others

• Karl Sanders – Saurian Meditation (2004, Relapse Records, featuring)
• Lecherous Nocturne – Adoration of the Blade (2006, Deepsend Records)
• George Kollias – Invictus (2015, Season of Mist, featuring)