Toler-Wade started playing the drums at seven-years old. At the age of fourteen, he started learning to play the guitar. His career started as a drummer for the
Greenville, South Carolina-based technical death metal band Lecherous Nocturne. During his tenure there, he was recommended to
Karl Sanders of Nile and subsequently joined the band in September 1997 as a guitarist and vocalist. Toler-Wade is credited with writing the music for many of Nile's songs during his tenure. Below is a list of songs for which he composed the music: • "Multitude of Foes" • "Supreme Humanism of Megalomania" • "The Inevitable Degradation of Flesh" • "Natural Liberation of Fear Through the Ritual Deception of Death" • "Execration Text" • "Wind of Horus" • "Invocation to Seditious Heresy" • "The Burning Pits of the Duat" • "Lashed to the Slave Stick" • "As He Creates So He Destroys" • "The Essential Salts" • "The Language of the Shadows" • "Utterances of the Crawling Dead" • "Permitting the Noble Dead to Descend to the Underworld" • "The Eye of Ra" • "Liber Stellae Rubeae" • "Evil to Cast Out Evil" • "Rape of the Black Earth" Additionally, Toler-Wade co-wrote the music for "User Maat Re" alongside Karl Sanders. He left the band in October 2016. Nile announced the departure in February 2017. Toler-Wade started Narcotic Wasteland as a side project in 2014, but it became his full-time project once he left Nile in 2016. Narcotic Wasteland has released two albums. The first album is self-titled and the second is titled
Delirium Tremens. Both albums were released through
Megaforce Records. Narcotic Wasteland is signed with the talent agency Ashley Talent International, LLC. == Instrumentation ==