SEEN AND HEARD ON A SATURDAY: VALDUR, HADOPELAGYAL, NARRAT, NOW I’VE DONE IT, VALONTUOJA, NARCOTIC WASTELAND

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Aug 232025
 

(written by Islander)

I got a late start today. When I collapsed late last night I had many ideas about what to recommend, a very long list of potentials, but only one decision. The choosing came this morning, and was painful because I knew I needed to get this thing finished before the sun got too high in the sky and therefore left some songs behind. I can put a few of them into tomorrow’s SHADES OF BLACK column.

Unlike yesterday’s head-start on this roundup I haven’t pinned a couple of big names at the top to act as a lure for all the swimming fish out there. This will be more like using a dragnet to trawl for bottom-feeders. Continue reading »

AN NCS INTERVIEW: NARCOTIC WASTELAND

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Oct 202022
 


Photo Credit – Kenji Tsunami

(Drugs, Nile, touring, addiction, serial killers, Netflix, and narcissism? No topic was off-limits when NCS’s Gonzo recently caught up with guitarist, vocalist, and founder Dallas Toler-Wade and drummer Joe Howard from South Carolina-based death metal act Narcotic Wasteland on the Denver stop of their tour with Accept.)

 

How is touring with Accept going so far?

Dallas Toler-Wade: Good, man. It’s been an opportunity for us to get in front of more people. [Accept] packs houses, I mean – we’ve had like two sold-out shows this week. The Whisky was really close, too. I think there were like ten tickets left.

 

Has this been your biggest tour as a band? Have you felt like you’ve reached that “holy shit, we’re making it” moment?

Joe Howard: A lot of people still just kind of don’t know about us yet, but that’s changing. It’s just been great to see the exposure. At most shows, I’ll know at least five or six people. But these are some big crowds.

DTW: These are definitely some of the biggest crowds we’ve had so far. We did another tour with Malevolent Creation earlier this year and those were some packed houses on that, on their 30 Years of Retribution tour, so that was fun. Continue reading »