Episodes

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re continuing our Genre series in which we spend an hour discussing one subgenre that makes up the kaleidoscope we know as heavy metal. This week it’s all about HARDCORE. What is hardcore? How did this genre full of suburban knuckleheads bloom from the comparatively cosmopolitan world of 70s punk rock? How in the world did this small teenage scene go from 80s squalor to following Krishna in the 90s, get hip hop focused in the 2000s, and become mostly metal all along...

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re launching a new series in which we discuss one subgenre in heavy metal at a time. This series is about taking a single genre and discussing all the things we like about it. It’s a wildly different approach for us. We’re talking about the history and highlights of DEATH METAL in this very first edition. Where did it come from? Where did it go? Where did it come from, Death Metal, Joe? We’re talking about thrash origins to a Floridian bloom, UK proliferation, and S...

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Worlds be colliding. Ronnie Radke and Marilyn Manson have joined forced for a groundbreaking collaboration, “God is a Weapon”. We are listening to the new song in full… in 7-second chunks so we don’t violate Spotify’s strict copyright protections. But that’s not all. We’re also talking about how Sumerian Records have launched a comic book publishing company. Join us as we explore new graphic novels about The Used, the Offspring, and Underoath. Black Flag is back! This...

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: Kings of Thrash, Dave Ellefson’s new band, just now released a terrible song about the COVID pandemic. It is currently 2025 if you were confused. Creed is getting mixed up with Indy car racing for reasons we straight up cannot ascertain. Ash Avildsen of Sumerian Records spent his mother’s day weekend having a full-force meltdown online because his right wing friends don’t want to watch his biopic about Mildred Burke. Trivium and Bullet for my Valentine are BEEFING and ...

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re at the Pizza Hut. We’re at the Taco Bell. We’re at the combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell. Join us as we get way deep into the weeds of Taco Bell’s “Feed the Beat” marketing campaign. For years now, the ubiquitous fast food taco chain has been giving little bands a pile of $5 gift cards in exchange for their cultural cache. Is it cynical? You bet! Also on this episode: Matt Barlow is 100% going to re-join Iced Earth, Rob Halford is double-booked on the night of Ozzy...

This week on Toilet Radio: Summer Slaughter sold by Ash Avildsen, Jamey Jasta proud new owner of a lemon. Related: We look at Ash’s new women’s wrestling movie and are awed by new heights in nepotism. An original Possessed guitarist (not the guy you know) got shot by the cops in a lawn care dispute. We get more depressing information on Ozzy’s upcoming final performance. Propagandhi and Hideous Divinity are backing out on US tours for very valid reasons. Finally, we have a mostly pleasant conver...

This week on Toilet Radio, Joe and Jordo watch the first part of Sam Dunn’s impressive 2011 documentary series Metal Evolution. We begin with “Pre-Metal” and talk about the primordial ooze from which blast beats and tremolo picking emerged. We’re reviewing medieval chord progressions, Black Sabbath ripping off classical composers, jazz, Howlin’ Wolf, the big money hustlas at Sun Studios, the origins of distortion and much, much more. But that’s not all: We’re also talking about discontinued ener...

This week Jordo sits down with an old friend. We’re joined by Breno to talk about You Will Never Know Me, his new album as Black Band Shirt. The two talk about taking time off from work to deal with mental health stuff, Silent Hill 2, trying to promote music in a crumbling online ecosystem, songwriting, recording, playing live, and trying to determine whether you’re making music for yourself or for someone who may or may not exist. Folks, it’s a good one. Music featured on this show: Black Band...

This week on Toilet Radio: We finally got un update from a former As I Lay Dying band member about what exactly caused every non-Tim Lambesis member to leave the band all of a sudden. Turns out it’s because Tim is a piece of shit. Dragged Into Sunlight dropped Meth from their upcoming US tour because they are artists with principles. Or really, really strange people. One of the two. Creed are gearing up for another cruise with 90s cast-offs and we can’t wait to go. Metallica has a new documentar...

This week on Toilet Radio: Financial instruments? Fuck that! We’re talking about musical instruments! And how they will soon become very, very unaffordable thanks to the current cratering of the United States economy due to the single dumbest self-inflicted wound since the satanic invention of capitalism. Brian from Shadows Fall describes how he’s already seeing costs go up and describes the misery that will soon follow. We take it to the logical conclusion and discuss how the entire concept of ...

This week on Toilet Radio: Perry Farrell is BACK! In plastic form! Yngwie Malmsteen is ready to sell you a bunch of gummy multivitamins to help you shred real good and fast. Meanwhile, Matt Heafy is ready to sell you a bag of cough drops to help you do some yells. Some small town Australian mayor took a photo with Ronnie Radke and now it’s THE WHOLE WORLD vs Ronnie Radke yet again. In hardcore news: Zulu and Gel are just… a huge goddamn mess, man. Some funko-like company is selling action figure...

This week on Toilet Radio: Matt Pinfield is out of a coma and it sounds like he might fully recover after a very serious stroke? Vinnie Paul’s posthumous cook book is coming out soon and you better believe we preordered the deluxe edition. Disturbed did some damage to the legacy of Chicago sports while fucking around with fire. Robb Flynn is selling booze in a shotgun-shaped container, related, Robb Flynn is in his mid-50s. One of the guys in SCOUR decided to re-litigate a ten-year old incident ...

This week on Toilet Radio: Brent is leaving Mastodon and we got more questions than answers about where the band goes from here. Where is Phil Towle when we need him? We read a lengthy interview with John Dolmayan of System of a Down and decide that he is, actually, The Perfect Conservative. Jeffrey Nothing of Mushroomhead has been diagnosed with cancer and is now pursuing alternative medicine for treatment. We gotta talk about this. Finally, Michale Graves, former Misfits vocalist, has been BLA...

Talk about a band you don’t want to meet in a dark alley… This is quite belated post for an interview I did last year with local chaotic-blackened-poweremoviolencecore band Low Before the Breeze. For dumb personal reasons you don’t care about, I didn’t have a chance to edit this interview until recently, and when I did I realized the mic shut off about halfway through. I thought about just leaving it unreleased, but this is an innovative band that’s at the heart of a burgeoning emoviolence rena...

This week on Toilet Radio: Jordan sits down with Chelsea Murphy of atmospheric black metal act Dawn of Ouroboros. Join as the two talk about David Lynch, recording music for Doom, musicianship, and the band’s excellent new release, Bioluminescence. But before all that, we’re talking about more ER horror stories, Tool deserving their horrible fans, and a washed-up 80s hair metal guy losing his fiancee while aboard and 80’s hair metal cruise. Music featured on this show: Dawn of Ouroboros – Slipp...

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: Iron Savior is boycotting the Untied States, first by cancelling a scheduled appearance at Prog Power USA. We talk about the BEEF between the UK Church and Plague of Angels. THEOLOGY! Belushi Speed Ball, known for dumb publicity stunts, has another dumb publicity stunt. Bobby Liebling and Pentagram had a moment of vitality this week, hope they savor it when they go right back into the dustbin of mediocrity next week. We talk about David Draiman’s desire to collaborate ...

This week on Toilet Radio: Machine Gun Kelly made guitar cool again. Apparently Fieldy hasn’t been in KoRn for 6 years and we Ask Questions about the evangelical hold on all of these guys. Oceano is mercifully breaking up and to commemorate the event they’re stealing art from artists and acting stupid about it. SOD is getting back together for a reunion show, minus the fat nazi that originally fronted the band. Sleep Token have a new novelty thing, great. Finally, we look at the latest lineup fo...

This week on Toilet Radio: Zheani, an Australian musical artist(?) rented a shit-caked bus from the guy from Ill Niño and now she’s alleging fraud! Let’s investigate. Furnace Fest is BACK, this time with the Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza. Zany! We take a look at prices for the upcoming final Ozzy/Black Sabbath performance and compare it to recent rich guy only fests. The bassist from Killswitch Engage has caught one of the hardest strays of all time and now has to explain that the artwork on...

This week on Toilet Radio: Matt Pinfield suffered a huge stroke, let’s talk about stroke prevention and care. Ozzy is gearing up for one last ride with Black Sabbath, let’s talk about the end of several eras. You all took our advice and absolutely flooded Nevermore* with audition tapes, thanks guys. Destruction is going all in on AI with the backing of Napalm Records. Kane Roberts has gravely disappointed me by doing an inane sexy vampire/fuck robot AI “metal” project, and The Sword are back, ag...

This week on Toilet Radio: Munky from KoRn has his own AI-generated fragrance thanks to something called Reference Times. Good lord. Jered Threatin is BACK and he may or may not be dying. Let’s take a look at the latest stunt from Threatin on his path to superstardom. Ol’ Nergie is back with “THE SHIT OV GOD”, Behemoth’s latest attempt to shock someone, anyone. Finally, Grand Belial’s Key and some other hoople heads attempted to play a secret show in Detroit and got their shit shut down. Score o...

This week on Toilet Radio: We sat down to watch a little-known 2004 documentary on Christian heavy metal, Why Should The Devil Have All The Good Music. We went in blind and we were pleasantly surprised by the scope of voices, hard-hitting questions, and nuanced responses offered in this documentary. In addition to Zao, Demon Hunter, and other well known Christian bands, you hear from Pansy Division, Steve Albini, and a host of lapsed as well as true believers. We even hear from son of disgraced ...

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re going through the most excellent lineup of this year’s Hell’s Heroes, a celebration of old school heavy metal going down in Houston this spring. We’re also getting into the audacious response Steffen Kummerer of Obscura had for former members accusing him of stealing riffs without credit. New vid dropped of Tim Lambesis abusing his dog and his ex-wife accusing him of domestic abuse; he is who we’ve always said he is. A blast from the past: Upon a Burning Body and...

This week on Toilet Radio: Insect Warfare is BACK (in the worst way possible). Ronnie Radke and Alex Terrible are using the abject misery of the LA fires as inspiration for the worst song you’ve ever heard. Obscura ripped off a former member by using his music on their new album without credit, receipts included. Whoops! Also on this show: Jordan interviews Justin Foley of Killswitch Engage to talk about the possibility of going jazz odyssey on the new album, getting together to write new music ...

This week on Toilet Radio: This week: Chris Kael of Five Finger Death Punch tries his hand at standup / Karl Sanders had his faith in humanity restored by pickle ball / Patrick Mameli of Pestilence has been quietly simmering with rage about light pushback he received for using AI album art and now he’s gonna make it your problem / Nevermore* is coming back and Jeff Loomis failed to loop a few folks in about that. Let’s all send our Warrel Dane replacement audition tapes in right now / The new Al...