# 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.

## 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.
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.
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
### Nile

* 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)