Check out the official Slik Toxik Facebook page for updates here. Irrelevant (20 Something Anniversary Re-Issue) tracklist: They were a mainstay of Much Music’s Power Hour video show and supposedly the next big thing to hit the American metal market. A fine way to cap off a welcome throwback. Any of you who were fans of hard rock and melodic metal have no doubt heard of the Canadian band Slik Toxik. Slik Toxik was a band that was just a bit too late. They didn’t sound like anyone else on the scene at the time, and it was exciting to hear a band put so much into an album instead of playing it safe. Originally released in 1992 by Capitol Records/EMI Canada Director: Don Allan. Recommended for fans of melodic hard rock. It's got the hooks,the crunch and hard rock melodies.
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This EP is a melodic one that served as an introduction to the fans before their full length follow up 1992's Doin the Nasty. The space has been filled with the 1989 demo version of the band’s runaway hit from Doin’ The Nasty, ‘White Lies / Black Truth’. In a nutshell, Slik Toxik was its own band. Slik Toxik Official Official Video for the Slik Toxik song 'Helluvatime' taken from the album 'Doin' the Nasty'. Slik Toxic was a Canadian hard rock band that was around in the early 90's. This calls for a vinyl LP version, in case anyone at Perris Records is reading.ĭie-hard Slik Toxik fans should note the cover of the Sex Pistols hit ‘EMI’ has been removed from the tracklist. Repeated listens in the here and now made me realize that (a) the connection between my ears and brain wasn’t fully formed, and (b) the album is laid out – by accident or design? – in a brilliant Side A / Side B format, six songs a side. One complaint I had about Irrelevant was the track sequence, as I originally felt the album started to lag half way through.
Dark and evil, the band as a whole serves up what comes off as some kind of swamp grunge anthem at the outset, changing its face half way through to become a thundering Black Sabbath-metal monster that, quite frankly, nobody would have ever expected the Toronto prettyboys of a few years earlier to pull off. Gotta say, though, that 20 years on it’s ‘Voodoo’ that stands out as being Slik Toxik’s finest moment bar none. Less surprising was the drive towards Alice In Chains territory with ‘Dive’ and ‘Drained’ given the times, the latter being the weakest song on Irrelevant. Portrait in its final incarnation was made up of singer/guitarist Nick Walsh. The bigger shock, however, turned out to be tracks like the introspective ballad ‘Liquid Calm’, the smokey bar blues of ‘Blue Monday’, and the acoustic led south bent ‘Mother Machine’. Slik Toxik was formed out of Toronto hard rock band Portrait in 1988. On the one hand Slik Toxik went from being cock rock to a nailgun-carrying metal band, quite unexpectedly bashing people over the head with ‘Twentysomething’, ‘I Wanna Gun’, ‘Kill The Pain’, ‘Fashioned After None’ and ‘Just Fade Away’. Looking back on said review in the wake of Perris Records opting to release a 20th Anniversary edition of the record, two things are readily apparent: I knew what I was talking about even as a wide-eyed newbie to the music biz, and Slik Toxik were way ahead of their time.Īnd thanks to the internet age I’m not restricted to a tiny column in trying to explain why Irrelevant works, units sold in the past be damned.Īs stated in my original review (photo below), Irrelevant was a diverse platter that deftly avoided being a scene-sucking travesty with regards to their roots (that’s what I tried to say, at any rate). Irrelevant failed to make the same impact its predecessor had, and ultimately turned out to be Slik Toxik’s swansong. Slik Toxik - Doin' The Nasty (Full Album)Released: 1991Label: CapitolTrack Listing01. It was a darker and dirtier record compared to their official debut, Doin’ The Nasty, written and released at a time when hair metal / cock rock bands were well into taking a beating from the grunge scene takeover. Guitarist Doug Aldrich Joins Us This Week To Talk About The Upcoming Dead Daisies Release “Radiance”.Twenty years ago I wrote a review for Slik Toxik’s second full length album, Irrelevant.Author Jim Santora Guests on This Weeks Focus on Metal.The video can alsoĬontinue reading FAMOUS UNDERGROUND Release Official Video For “Bullet Train” Search for: Search Follow us on Twitter My Tweets Recent Posts Canadian hard rockers FAMOUS UNDERGROUND, the band featuring former SLIK TOXIK vocalist Nick Walsh, have released a new video for the song “Bullet Train“, taken from their international debut release.
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