Oh if only this had been released a few years before then maybe Slik Toxik would've been up there with some of the best; Love/Hate, Kik Tracee etc - mind you, it's not as if those talented chaps got the recognition they deserved either but 'Doin...' was a fine debut record if you have a craving for groove-based sleaze metal. These Canadian's had so much talent; from the cool, sassy vocal sneer of Nick Walsh and that oomphy guitar twang and it wasn't just the usual formulaic sleaze n' roll but sure; there was that element of Guns n' Roses but boy there were times when this album smoked; 'White Lies/Black Truth', 'Sweet Asylum', 'Cherry Bomb' - the list goes on and on and yet it was an album that failed at putting Canada on the map. Of course, from here it was a case of grunge suffocation - Slik Toxik just not knowing where they stood in the scheme of things, but for ballsy sleaze metal you just couldn't go wrong with this punch to the face.
8/10
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