Iconic South American label Toxic Records is back in business, this time as a division of Swedish label Mechanix Records.

Adrian Ibanez of Mechanix has this to say about the deal: “When I travelled to South America in the early 90's I had the chance to buy some of the label's releases and to then turn friend to Pancho Escolar, and that friendship had endured until this day so I'm very happy and longing for the new releases and re-editions of some old classics.”

Pancho Escolar added: “I’m obviously thrilled about this cooperation, Toxic Records had been an important force within the South American scene and now we have the chance to explore other markets and to present them with our titles.”

Toxic Records was founded in 1990 (under the Gore Zone Records) by Pancho Escolar and up to the day of its demise (around 2003) it had released close to 100 titles.

The label mainly released their own produced titles but also licensed and distributed stuff from international labels. Within the labels that the label developed are Sadism, Execrator (including Alvaro Lillo of Watain), Belial, Inner Sanctvm, Dogma, Totten Korps, Massakre, Recrucide, Inquisicion, Slavery, Undercroft, among others.

In the year 2000 Toxic Records was taken under the Virus Music label, together with Negative Entertainment (at that time a division of Toxic Records) and Freenoise Records (and associated label) but the deal ended on an acrimonious split and Toxic went bankrupt and folded. Toxic Records had distribution deals in South America with BMG, EMI and Sony Music, and in Europe was distributed by the cult label Repulse Records (Madrid, Spain).