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. 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 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; Reissued 2017, Megaforce Records)
 * Delirium Tremens (2017, Megaforce Records)
 * Morality and the Wasp (2022, Megaforce Records)
 * The Best Times Have Passed (2022, Megaforce Records)
 * Victims of the Algorithm (2022, Megaforce Records)
 * Sex Lies and DNA (2023, 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)