Toxik (New York thrash metal Josh Christian) World Circus LP 1987 NEAR MINT
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Toxik
World Circus
Roadracer Records RR_9572 LP 1987 (USA)
New York City's Toxik were a "band" in name only, since it was really guitar-masturbating wünderkind Josh Christian composing most all of their songs and the endless flurry of bumblebee notes scattered all over their breathless 1988 debut, World Circus. Sure enough, album opener "Heart Attack" propels thrash metal of such a frenzied nature at singer Mike Sanders that he truly seems to be experiencing a massive coronary while trying to enunciate all of those lyrics in his improbably high vocal range. Luckily, his life is spared so that he can carry on shrieking his way through another nine heart-palpitating tracks, although some listeners may find themselves wishing that weren't the case. For what it's worth, standout offerings like "Social Overload," "False Prophets," and the title track contain revealing traces of Toxik's roots in more melodic and deliberately paced classic '80s metal. This notion, in conjunction with their sociopolitical messages, tends to leave the quartet stranded somewhere between Queensrÿche and Joey Belladonna-fronted Anthrax -- not a bad place to get stranded, come to think of it. But Toxik unfortunately lacked the higher caliber of songwriting imagination that made similarly hybrid outfits of the period, such as Hades and Watchtower, slightly more tolerable, and, in the end, most of World Circus simply flashes by in a hopelessly messy blur. Toxik's next album, Think This, saw Sanders replaced by the slightly less strident Charles Sabin, but there was no fixing Christian's songwriting or desperate need to overplay, resulting in an arguably even more convoluted and overwrought recording.
Tracklist
A1 Heart Attack 3:47
A2 Social Overload 3:24
A3 Pain And Misery 3:15
A4 Voices 3:25
A5 Door To Hell 3:49
B1 World Circus 4:59
B2 47 Seconds Of Sanity / Count Your Blessings 4:57
B3 False Prophets 2:20
B4 Haunted Earth 3:27
B5 Victims 3:56
Recorded At – Morrisound Studios
Mastered At – Fullersound
Distributed By – MCA Distributing Corporation
Artwork By [Design By] – Jeff Faville
Artwork By [Front Cover Illustration] – Ed Repka
Artwork By [Toxik Logo By] – Joe Vittorini
Bass – Brian Bonini
Drums – Tad Leger
Engineer – Judd Packer, Tom Morris
Guitar – Josh Christian
Mastered By – Mike Fuller
Photography [Back Cover] – Monica Dee
Producer – Tom Morris
Vocals – Mike Sanders
Includes printed inner sleeve with lyrics & credits.
Vinyl is NEAR MINT in a printed paper lyric shet inner sleeve, in a picture sleeve in EXCELLENT condition
Note About Shipping To The U.S.
We are located in Canada, but have registered ourselves on eBay.com instead of eBay.ca because it gives us significantly better global exposure. The problem with this is that eBay wants us to charge shipping appropriate to US, where media mail and other options make for fairly reasonable delivery costs. We tried it for a while but ended up losing money on shipping or having to cancel the orders because we couldn't afford to ship for those rates. To manage this we have set the US shipping to run a calculator based on an American location (we chose Plattsburgh as fairly close) and charging according to UPS pricing. This avoids the cancellation issue, but appears to the buyer to be a prohibitive shipping cost and misrepresents the shipping as being only expedited. If you give us your postal code we will see if we can offer a more reasonable option, but generally we can get a single LP by air to most places in the continental US for $11, a few bucks less for ground.
Thanks for shopping Sir Helmitt,
Jeff Green, e-sales
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