Episodes

Happy new year, welcome back to Toilet Radio. This week: We offer our predictions for the world of metal and the world in general in 2025. Who gonna perform at the Trump inauguration? Who gonna die? Who gonna suffer crippling financial defeat? / Sumerian Records bought The Hard Times and now you get to see what happens when a fun little side hustle becomes a massive burden. / RIP to the Punk Rock MBA, you were a huge creep. / Alice In Chains, among other artists, got fat stacks of free covid cas...

On this very special Christmas edition of Toilet Radio: I get all riled up and bitter because Liquid Death managed to go viral again. Great. Attila’s rebrand attempt after an aborted tour featuring multiple sexual abusers is a deeply confusing proletarian campaign. Phil Labonte wants to privatize the mail for reasons even he doesn’t understand. BUT THEN: Me and Jordan give each other silly gifts and enjoy the spirit of the season. Pour up some cocoa and gather the family ’round the fire so that ...

This week on Toilet Radio: We know what the you weirdos like. Blood Incantation is gonna be on almost every best-of 2024 list from here to Calcutta. But what of the mainstream? What do the normies listen to? We analyzed the data and found the 22 most streamed rock and/or heavy metal songs on YouTube in the year of our lord 2024. Sure, you can always count on a crummy Bad Omens or a Disturbed song to show up on these lists. But this year we’ve got a bunch of unpleasant new surprises. Join us as w...

This week on Toilet Radio: Joe and Jordan break down our favorite songs of 2024. It was a good ass year for goth rock, rockin’ death metal, and rockin’ in general. We examine our picks and invite you to walk with us, rock with us. Also on this show: more horror stories from the ER, We found the guy behind “all-girl AI metal band” Pink Paradox due to him harassing us way too much, and we talk about some of our other favorite metal moments of the year. If you like any of the music here, stab any o...

This week on Toilet Radio: Jake E Lee isn’t afraid of anything, including the guy that shot him multiple times. Tim Lambesis was caught on video acting violent and insane towards his wife. He responds by saying that he is a victim and this is is all HER fault, actually. SHOCKING. Sick New World tried to put dozens of bands on a one day fest and pay 10 million dollars to Metallica and Linkin Park. In related news, Sick New World Fest is cancelled. The Dead Boys and Cleopatra Records attempted to ...

Rockville, Rockville, U-S-A! This week we’re combing through what is now the largest rock and metal fest in the United States – Welcome to Rockville in Daytona, Florida. They’ve got it all! Hardcore, radio rock, legacy metal, insane clowns, butt rock, and so much more. Join us as we rapid-fire judge about a million and a half bands. Also, Linkin Park is back, and you can read all about it in Dianetics. We’re talking about their world tour, new album, and all the opening bands that shredded their...

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: As I Lay Dying continues on without any non-Tim Lambesis band members and now Austrian Death Machine, somehow still around, is also left without any non-Tim members. / A study in arrested development, Alien Ant Farm and CKY are beefing! The girls are fighting! / Big anniversary celebrations for Papa Roach and The Phantom Menace remind us that it has been 25 years since childhood ended / We talk about a big tour coming to very small towns featuring nothing but red-blood...

This week on Toilet Radio: Morbid Angel dropped off their own headlining tour to be replaced with I AM MORBID. What the fuck? That’s like L.A. Guns being replaced by one of a dozen different active L.A. Guns outfits. Also on this week’s show: We got a promotional email for an AI “metal band” that was generated entirely by a greasy fucking nerd typing with one hand. We dive into Pink Paradox and it’s disgusting! Also, a fake “occult doom” AI “band” managed to fool a bunch of outfits and hapless B...

We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. This week on Toilet Radio: Election madness! Jon Schaffer managed to get a slap on the wrist for diming out all his Oathkeeper buddies so Iced Earth will surely return soon. As I Lay Dying has completely melted down and it’s all Tim Lambesis’ fault. Warped Tour* has returned and it sucks real bad man. We talk about SHELL SHOCK FEST, an ill-fated local fest that tried to use Kyle Rittenhouse as a star attraction and then immediately went to shit....

This week: Our final episode of The 2024 Halloween Spooktacular. We’re joined by returning champion Shayne Mathis to talk about Demons (1985), a movie about how much fun it is to skip school and go watch horror movies instead. For folks unfamiliar, Demons is a much-beloved Italian zombie flick that features the music of early Motley Crue, Saxon, Accept, and Billy Idol. It also features a much-beloved scene in which a guy rides a dirt bike around a movie theater chopping heads off with a sword. I...

This week we’re joined by Dave from Earsplit PR and noise-favorites Gridfailure. Dave felt we were having way too much fun with lighthearted horror romps and decided that we need to get grimy and horrifying ASAP with a modern horror classic. We’re talking about 2011’s SINISTER. Join us as we put on Ethan Hawke’s acting sweater to talk about found-footage, black metal antagonists, Boards of Canada, and Ziggy Sobotka in this genuinely evil-ass motion picture. But that’s not all, we’re also talking...

This week we’re joined by returning champion Maggie Serota to talk about 2014 action/horror cult classic The Guest. In his follow-up to 2013’s You’re Next, Adam Wingard imagines The Terminator and Halloween 3 through a lens of CW teen dramas and cocaine-infused beats. Scored by Zombi’s Steve Moore, The Guest offers a thrilling soundtrack to go along with the hyperviolence that results when a stranger comes to town and not all is as it seems. Folks, it is a good one. Join us next week as we watch...

We’re joined by Greg from Nefarious Industries to talk about Peter Jackson’s horror comedy classic, Dead Alive (or Braindead if you’re a Euro). Long before The Lord of the Rings, Peter trafficked in the grotesque and absurd to create low-budget pictures jam-packed with guts and goo. We talk about his most splatter-y early work here. But that’s not all, Greg tells us all about the mechanics of running a record label and touring with bands on $20 bucks a day. It’s a good one folks. Join us next we...

We’re kicking off the October Spooktacular, our month-long celebration of horror movies, with special guest Maddie (aka Beaver Mosh)! Maddie took some time off from interviewing cool metal bands to talk to us about one of her favorite horror movies – the OG in sci fi horror: Alien (1979). We’re talking about the movie that spawned a million sequels, spin-offs, comics, and video games. Does the Alien eat people or just kinda chew on them? Is Jonesy an android? What is the goopy white stuff drippi...

Oh god. Phil Labonte wrote an op-ed for Fox News about how society doesn’t value men. Join us as we engage with his arguments, discuss the implications of patriarchal decline, and otherwise attack the character, beliefs, and appearance of the author. We also spend a lil time talking about a smart tactical move by The Blood Brothers on their upcoming reunion tour, Power Trip* playing shows with Pantera*, and the inevitable return of Warped Tour. Folks, it’s a weird one. Want more Toilet Radio? G...

Tim Lambesis and Alex Terrible team up for an awful new song about how much incarceration sucks, the latest in diminishing returns from the reformed As I Lay Dying. We also learned that Janes Addiction returned by means of Perry Farrell having an extremely funny on-stage meltdown. Dez from Coal Chamber and Devil Driver has made powerful enemies with medical staff, drummers. Unto Others (formerly Idle Hands) got dropped from their upcoming tour with WASP and we learned that WASP has violently stu...

This week on Toilet Radio: We learn that right-wing media company Tenet Media, may be doing a little light treason with the help of Tim Pool, Phil Labonte, and the Russian government. Whoops! Also, At the Drive In’s Cedric Bixler-Zavala is going to war with Scientology and, by extension, Linkin Park’s new vocalist. Wes Eisgold of Cold Cave and American Nightmare is suing the WWE and Cody Rhodes for trademark infringement and we discuss fun new wrestling angles to cover the lawsuit. Happy 9/11. F...

On this episode of Toilet Radio: Oops! All Our Guys! We promise one hour of nothing but talking about the dopes we’ve somehow spent many hours talking about already. TO START: RFK Jr dropped out of the presidential race and it’s got Ash from Sumerian Records all itchy and chafe-y so you know he’s gotta threaten some spurious legal action over it. Dumb! Also, Ronnie Radke is pursuing his own spurious legal action against YouTube talking head Anthony Fantano in what may be the most doomed lawsuit ...

We’re enjoying the final days of Summer and there’s no better way to celebrate than by taking an audio journey to the Southern hemisphere. A couple years ago we made a trek to Japan to enjoy a wide variety of heavy metal noises. This time around we’re setting our sights on Chile. Join me and Jordan as we learn some cursory facts about the longest country and explore some ripping thrash, crushing death, and tearfully sad boi doom metal. If you really dig any of these selections let us know below ...

This week on Toilet Radio: Sometimes a man has to make a very silly decision. In this case, that man is Jeff (@Solidstapp) and the decision is to attend an all-day local music fest with more bands than paying attendees hosted in a motel conference room. Join us as Jeff regales Joe and Jordan with tales from the upstate New York DIY and not-so-DIY scene. We’re starting Facebook beef and trying to resolve it onstage in front of an apathetic crowd… on this week’s Toilet Radio. Want more Toilet Rad...

This week on Toilet Radio: Blake Judd is BACK with the most ill-advised music video we could imagine! Let’s all buy rare black metal vinyl from him! Other stories this week: Capulet Fest has the goddamn state attorney general involved now, boy is that guy boned! Wacken 2024 just wrapped up but the first slate of bands for Wacken 2025 have already been announced – let’s take a look! Marilyn Manson is continuing his comeback attempt, this time with Reba from Code Orange in his backing band – woof!...

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re talking with New England Metal & Hardcore Fest organizer Scott Lee. Join us as we pick Scott’s brain about 25 years of Killswitch, a quarter century of NEH&M fests, hardcore crews, managing Khemmis, controversy surrounding Slaughter to Prevail, and all the bands he wishes he could convince to play a single reunion show. After the interview, me and Jordan go through the lineup and discuss each band on the bill. Folks, it’s a good one. Want more Toilet Radio? Get ...

This week on Toilet Radio: We discuss mass shootings and liminal spaces before diving into the global spectacle of the Olympics. Gojira – good! Skillet – bad! Synchronized diving and willfully ignorant nationalism – fun! We also talk about the most real ass interview we’ve ever read. The bass player from Exodus tells it like it fuckin’ is RE: the entire recording music industry. We talk t-shirt sales, viral hopium, and selling off recording catalogs. Finally, a lil talk about Bill Ward maybe reu...

This week on Toilet Radio: Boy, a lot of strange things happened since we last recorded. Some kid tried to shoot Donald Trump and hijinks briefly ensued. Everyone’s moved on by now but Jack Black managed to knife his bandmate in the back over brief backlash they received for saying out loud what everyone else was already saying out loud. Meanwhile, Sticker Mule, a sticker printing company, decided to spam their customers with weepy pro-Trump messages. When their customers weren’t sufficiently re...