Throttle Junkies is the debut album by the Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

-based music group Soil. The album was released on May 18, 1999 via the now defunct MIA Records. It featured tracks previously released on the band's EPs Soil

SOiL (EP)

Soil is the debut EP from the Chicago metal band Soil. According to vocalist Ryan McCombs, this release was referred to by the band as "the worm disc." The tracks "Broken Wings" and "She" would be featured again on a second EP, El Chupacabra, in 1998...

and El Chupacabra

El Chupacabra (album)

El Chupacabra is an EP by the heavy metal band Soil. The name of the EP refers to a mythical Puerto Rican beast, and literally means "goat-sucker" in Spanish...

. Not long after the album's release, MIA folded. This led to Soil's development of demos that would eventually gain them a major label deal with J Records

J Records

J Records was an American record label, owned and operated by Sony Music Entertainment, and was distributed through the RCA Music Group.-Company history:...

.

The album was re-released on August 14, 2007 with bonus tracks.

Track listing

1. "Everything" – 2:57
2. "Road to Ruin" – 2:37
3. "Damning Eden" – 3:00
4. "F-Hole" – 2:54
5. "Man I Am" – 3:48
6. "Hello Again" – 3:19
7. "Butterfly" – 3:03
8. "Growing Ways" – 4:08
9. "Stand to Fall" – 4:08
10. "Concrete Slave" – 3:42
11. "She" – 3:26
12. "Crucified" – 4:29
13. "Shining Man" – 3:51
14. "Damning Eden" (Acoustic) – 3:18
15. "Black Betty
    Black Betty
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    " [reissue bonus track]
16. "Triple 6's" [reissue bonus track]
17. "Two Cent Friend" [reissue bonus track]

Personnel

• Ryan McCombs
  Ryan McCombs
  Ryan McCombs is a heavy metal vocalist. From 1997 to 2004 he was the vocalist of the hard rock band Soil. Since 2005, however, McCombs has served as the vocalist for Drowning Pool.-1997-2004: Soil:...
  
   – Vocals
• Adam Zadel – Guitar, Backing Vocals
• Shaun Glass – Guitar
• Tim King
  Tim King
  Tim King is an American educator and non-profIt leader, and the founder and CEO of Urban Prep Academies, a network of all-male charter public high schools in Chicago...
  
   – Bass
• Tom Schofield – Drums