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Slik Toxik

Slik Toxik
SLIK TOXIK
Formed 1988, Canada

Albums:
1991 Smooth & Deadly
1991 Doin' The Nasty
1994 Irrelevant

History:
Slik Toxik was a short-lived Canadian rock band that reached a respectable level of success in their home country yet failed to make much of an impact outside of it.
  Vocalist Nicholas Walsh had played in different bands with guitarists Kevin Gale and Rob Bruce around the Toronto, Ontario area. He decided to get the two axe-slingers together and formed Slick Toxik with the rhythm section of Patric Howarth (bass) and Neal Busby (drums). The group quickly recorded a demo that landed them a contract with Capitol Records and released a four song EP called Smooth & Deadly.
  Slik Toxik's full-length debut would see the band reach their commercial peak, going gold in Canada and winning a Juno award for 'Hard Rock Album of the Year' in 1993. Their singles "White Lies/Black Truth" and "Helluvatime" (which won 'Best Video Of The Year' and 'Best Metal Video' awards at the Much Music Video Awards in 1992) got massive airplay as the group toured from coast to coast with Kim Mitchell and Yngwie Malmsteen. With a new bassist in Adam Headland, a new independent label, a darker sound and a changing musical climate, Slick Toxik's next release was doomed to fail and went completely unnoticed. The band broke-up shortly after its release.
  After a short stint in Raised On Mars, Nick Walsh resurfaced with Crash Kelly's Sean Kelly in a band called Revolver and released the album Turbulence in 2004 while Kevin Gale teamed up with Killer Dwarfs member Darrell Dwarf Millar in Automan.

Links:
The Official Revolver Page
The Official Automan Page

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