Toxic Holocaust - Evil Never Dies
2005 Gloom Records

Track Listing:
1 Evil Never Dies
2 War Is Hell
3 Enemy of Jesus
4 Damned to Fire
5 Exxxecutioner
6 666
7 Summon The Beast
8 Demise
9 Warfare
10 Dead To The World
11 Fallout
12 Atomic Destruktor
13 Deathmaster
14 Metal Attack
15 Created To Kill

Line-Up:
Everything:  Joel Grind

Website:  www.geocities.com/toxicholocaust

Scoot's Rating:  A-
Overall Rating:  A-

Also be sure to read:
Interview with Joel Grind by Scoots

Scoot's Review:
Crazed bullet-belt-and-high-top thrash metal from the fiery pits of Maryland.  Toxic Holocaust carries on in the grand tradition of Destruction, Kreator, Whiplash, and Bathory with songs about nuclear war, Satan, and other wholesome themes.  Joel Grind is the only member of this "band," but this doesn't sound like a wimpy Pro-Tools vanity project, the sound is fully realized and Joel packs as much of a punch as any four or five denim-and-leather clad heshers ever has.

Gloom's pressing of this CD collects Toxic Holocaust's two best releases:  the debut full length lp, Evil Never Dies (originally released on Nuclear War Now) and the Death Master 7", which was also released by Gloom and has not been available on CD until now.  Rounding out the package is a track from a vinyl-only compilation 7" ("Outbreak Of Evil", Nuclear War Now).  

Unlike many current speed/thrash bands, Joel has a knack for writing catchy songs with plenty of hooks.  Standout tracks include the seething mid-tempo "Summon The Beast" and headbanging anthem "Metal Attack".  This is the soundtrack to getting ripped on magic marker fumes and cheap domestic beer in your parents' basement in 1986.  Kills posers on contact.
Scoot's Rating:  A-