Smoke Up: Narcotic Wasteland to Headline Denver DeathFest on 4/20

Narcotic Wasteland started as a thrashy side project of longtime Nile guitarist Dallas Toler-Wade in 2011. In the beginning, he focused on the band only when he had downtime between touring and recording with the legendary ancient Egyptian-themed technical death-metal outfit from South Carolina. But it was obvious early on that he’d tapped into something with Narcotic Wasteland. As the group grew in scope, Toler-Wade left Nile in 2016 to focus on his new act full-time.

“I wanted to scale it up after we wrote about four songs for the project. It was something that I was going to do when Nile wasn’t busy,” he says. “It just kind of organically turned into this other thing. I just kept plugging away at it and having ideas for this particular style. The rest is history.”…