Death Metal from the dark depths of the Philippines (Quezon City)

Marc Barbasa: Vocals
Jon Ramirez: Guitars
Joey Magillano: Bass Guitar
Hans Borres: Drums

The band started in the year 2012, when former band mates from the band Tomb (1999-2002) Redford, Jon and Hans decided to form a new band, Released a demo in 2013, followed by an e.p. in 2014 called "Pulutan"..In the midst of 2014 bassist/vocals Redford Labriette decided to quit the band due to his conflicts in schedule,The band added Marc Barbasa (formerly of the defunct death metal band Amocrass) to do the vocal duties, without a bass player, the band still continues to play live gigs, but the hunt for a bass player is stil on, Later that year Joey Magillano was added to the fold and on March 2015 The 4 song e.p. "Kinain ng Buhay" was released, A much stronger and solid line up was exhumed.

Biography

Started summer of 2009 jervish alcos(gtr/vox) got tired of waiting for his highschool bandmates to get reunited and decided to form an old-school ripping thrash metal band, inspired by the classic 80’s german thrash(Kreator, Sodom, Destruction) jervish start recruiting members for the band until he finds Vic jarlego(Negatron/Pathogen) on drums and Jelo Aranguren(infestor) on guitars and Rugene Marcial on bass together they started rehearsing 3 compositions which will be included in their first demo entitled “Radiation Devastation” featuring a bonus track “Chernobyl”(Effluvium cover).Supporting the release of “Radiation Devastation” the band started playing live gigs in mostly in manila with the help of copperhead productions
2010 was a great year for the band because their songs got included in some local compilations like Impyerno sa Lupa(Lifespan Records) and War Blood(Dethrone Records) until they received a bad news that jelo will leave the band to focus on some serious responsibilities, luckily jervish highschool bandmate lex Garcia(guitars) is ready to fill in for the vacant spot.

On November of 2010 the band heads to the studio again to record their follow up to “radiation devastation” which is “Apocalypse Agenda” a 5-song E.P. which contains 4 new thrash attack tracks and a re-recorded version of “holocaust in heaven”.

Apocalypse agenda Cassette tape version out now on hellhouse666(thailand)
Genre:	thrash metal

Members	current line-up:
jervish alcos - guitar/vocals
arius exconde - guitars
george diestro - bass
vic "victilator" jarlego - drums

past/stupid/gay/not metal enough members:
lex garcia - guitars
rugune marcial - bass

past/pervert member:
jelo aranguren - guitars

Hometown	san pablo city,laguna

Record Label	indie

Influences	Kreator, Sodom, Destruction, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, early Metallica, early Sepultura, Exodus, Hirax, Agent Steel, Dark Angel, Voivod, Death Angel, Venom, Sadus, Iron Maiden, Rush, Thin Lizzy, Chuck Schuldiner(R.I.P.) and a lot of old school thrash ripping bands!!!

Current Location	san pablo city, laguna

Toxemia is an old school oriented savage, dirty and rotten Death Metal and the Truest form of Underground band from the Philippines...Alcohol and Marijuana and some drugs induced, been active for over a decade in the world-wide D.I.Y. demo trading circuit and also involve into zine writing.

Hordes of Alcohol Formed 2003 in the depths of Naic, Chodi on Drums and Ron Tai-Tax on vocals and Patrick on bass former AFM bassist and Corix on guitar. released a demo called Sealed With Blood

2004 - Chodi(drummer) became the most wanted drug dealer in their place. Ian Hunter fill in the drum duty, former Insanity frontman.

2005 - Ian decided to leave the band to focus his career. Vic Jarlego from Pathogen drummer fill in the duty and added Erwin Javier also from Pathogen on lead guitar.
released a demo called Death To Us All and Let This Rotting World Empty on Cdr 2005 under Mort Humain Production, at this time, they sounded more influence on Death Metal and Grindcore in the old way and had released some various split and compilation local and abroad.

2006 – Corix went to the desert hell Saudi Arabia for two years and the band became inactive until 2008. On mid 2008 the band became active again, doing some live performances...though in their hiatus, they still have received some offer for some DIY releases like split and compilation.

2009 -2010 due to time conflict and distance of Vic and Erwin's place, they became inactive again.
2011 - They have talked and discussed to fill in Kenneth Sanglay former Barricade of Corpse drummer and Cryster Talicol from some various rock/metal bands on lead guitar and recorded 6 tracks for the EP.
Kenneth was actually been part of the band since 2008 doing session drummer on live performances.

Over the years their sound evolved into a much more death metal direction.

2012 - Cavite's Beast EP was released, and later Promo 2012 was distributed independently for the full length.

2013 - This year was the most hyper active year of Toxemia, played a lot of underground gigs and had released a split with Pathogen called "Welcome To The Alcoholocaustic South-The Unholy Alliance" and was released by No Tomorrow Production and Human Discount Records both from Italy on Pro-CDr and was also re-release by Mandarangan Recordings(US) on Cassette Tape format and later the debut full length was recorded called "Planetary Devastation" and was released under Metal Porn Production (Malaysia) on pro Cassette Tape format.

Line up changes of the band strikes back, Patrick is now focusing on his career abroad, Ron their vocalist is currently working abroad also, from 5 guys down to 3 piece now. Corix is now filling up the duty on vocals/guitar.

2014 – The year opens for the band with a good vibe, with lots of releases on hold, the split with the Bangladesh thrash fuckin’ militants Enmachined was released on cassette tape format by HellHouse666 Production (Thailand) called Thrashed to Death, and later the Discography album 2003-2014 as part of their celebration of their Decade of Existence was also released on Pro-Cdr format by Morthumain Production and Despised Records, and later their Planetary Devastation album was forge into Pro-Cd by The Third Inferno(US).

2015 opens for the great year of the band, they just recently released a live compilation album on Cassette Tape and CDr called “Underground Aeons” under MortHumain Production and followed the release of their second album called “Ancient Demon” under The Third Inferno(US).

DETHRONE RECORDS 
Record Label from The Philippines
[Death, Thrash, Black, Heavy Metal and Grindcore]

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RELEASES:
[DR 007] [DR 007] Perpetual Holocaust (Chile) - Demo 2016 A.B. / Live In Studio P150 / $4
[DR 006] Comatose (Phi) - Thy Mighty Conquest P150 / $4 
[DR 005] Legion (Phi) / Necrodios (Phi) - Canticle of Desolation P150 / $4 
[DR 004] Mass Hypnosia (Phi) / Sadistor (Phi) - Merciless Metal Destructors P150 / $4 
[DR 003] Rabies (Phi) - Survive The Slaughter P100 / $3 
[DR 002] Genital Grinder (Phi) - Damn Good P150 / $4 
[DR 001] Pathogen (Phi) - Barbaric Desolation P150 / $4

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