Where is Toxik - World Circus? / By Tuno
Monday, 17 April 2006 
Toxik, formed in 1985, was an amazing band thrash-power-metal-progressive if you will band, that had an incredible style. Their debut album called “World Circus”, had an incredible mixture of chords, guitar solos, bass and incredible vocals very much in the style of Rob Halford, that resulted in a unique combination, not likely to be heard in that decade. That album incorporated ultra fast riffs, very rhythmic chord and ultra fast melodic solos. Josh Christian guitar style was simply amazing, a true shredder. I think Toxik was a band ahead of its time; you could count with your fingers metal bands that sounded like that in an 80´s decade dominated by glamm metal (Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Poison, etc).
Today you can still hear that album and it sounds fresh. A friend of mine played that album for me one time when we were drinking some beers and when I heard the first song “Heart Attack”, I was blown away, I could not believe what I was hearing, but then the title track “World Circus”, played and I simply started prying to these new gods, but I was more impressed when I heard that they were an 80´s band. If I am not mistaken, Toxik was one of the first prog power metal bands out there, and you can hear their influence in bands like Pantera “Cowboys From Hell” album.
Unfortunately, this band disbanded in 1992!!, they disappeared from the face of the earth, I been wandering where are they now?, Where are those great musicians?, are they working on other side projects? Why aren’t their records on any store now?
Today “World Circus” and their second album called “Think This”, are almost collector items, you can’t find them I any record store, in fact, I haven’t heard their second album, not even one song!. According to some reviews I read from the internet, “Think This” sounds even better than “World Circus”.
There are some rumors that Toxik may reunite again and release a new album! That would be great!!!
So if you have any information about Toxik that would like to share, about the whereabouts of their members, and even could tell us were to find some songs from “Think this” album!!, please fell free to send an e-mail to:
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Keep the metal scene alive!!!
CommentsOld as me :D
Written by zhille on 2007-01-23 18:54:08wow...must find this...it's as old as me, but, GREAT, especially the circus tune at the end of this song here...cheerz!
