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 s…

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 b…

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 s…

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 e…

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,…

This week on Toilet Radio we tackle artificial intelligence in heavy metal. In the past we’ve discussed odious little AI projects like Frostbite Orckings and ShredderZ which were, all credit due, absolutely odious. This time we delve further into a dozen or so other fake AI metal “bands” to get a taste for what some of the most Cheeto-stained peopl…

This week on Toilet Radio we watched Underground Inc., a documentary about the forgotten edges of the 90s alternative rock boom. Post-Nevermind, there was an explosion in major label dollars thrown at freaks with guitars hoping for similar success stories. This 2019 documentary helps explore that era with the help of Steve Albini, Sean from White Z…

This week on Toilet Radio: The Sword is back ! / We discuss the drama and intrigue of a three-day-long disaster in Connecticut called Capulet Fest. Join us as we hear how every thing that could go wrong did including: cancelling a whole day with one hour’s notice, making bands pay three grand to buy on, and a flat out refusal to book a single good …

This week on Toilet Radio: Gen X Correspondent Ian steps in to talk to legendary rock n’ roller Carmine Appice about his incredible path to Rock God, his star-studded new record with Cactus, and the future of music with AI. But that’s not all. You’ll also get Joe and Jordan talking about Metallica’s absurd collaboration with pre-teen money printing…

We’re back with your regularly scheduled Toilet. This week we’re talking about the new, revitalized Mayhem Festival and its utterly dire lineup. Mortiis is hitting the road and I plan to crowdkill everyone in the room. Hunt the Dinosaur’s vocalist took a selfie with a porcine lil murderer and we get to make fun of both for a few minutes. Ronnie Rad…

Here is the second and final part of our 500 episode celebration. On this one, me, Jordo, and Breno are fielding even more of your questions and voicemails. If you left us a voicemail, it’s probably on this episode at some point or another. We talk about some of our favorite memories over the years of doing the show, favorite riffs, favorite beefs,…

We did it. On this most celebratory episode of Toilet Radio we’re joined by Brenocide for a jam-packed two-part episode filled with listener questions, voicemails, and silly suggestions. We’re talking about Breno’s new metal project, getting medicated, getting away with murder, the concept of “metal brotherhood”, avoiding insincere lefty political …

This week on Toilet Radio: Attila is starting their own doomed-to-fail podcast – we’ll check in again in 3 weeks, losers. / Bad Omens are playing Burnout Extreme / Scott Stapp is having a Moment which will culminate in his greatest role yet – Frank Sinatra in the Dennis Quaid Ronald Regan biopic / Ticketmaster is getting grilled by the Justice Depa…

This week on Toilet Radio: The Blood Brothers are back and I couldn’t be more stoked / We take a look at the complete lineup for what is *reported* to be the final Furnace Fest and pick it up pick it up pick it up for Christ / Marilyn Manson is trying for a comeback with the help of Nuclear Blast. We discuss why it’s a doomed plan and why fandom cu…

This week on Toilet Radio: It’s festival season! We’re looking at the big U.S. tours throughout the Midwest to the South and exploring the small-text bands are starting to creep up across these lineups. We all know the crowd is there to see your Disturbeds, your Panteras, and your what-have-yous. But what about the little guys? We take a listen to …

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: We got an offer to go out and attend a festival in Ukraine featuring White Ward. Nice! The festival is a fundraiser for Azov Battalion. Not so nice! / Summer Slaughter is BACK and the worst it has ever been! We investigate this, and more of Ash from Sumerian’s impotent rage RE: vaccines. It is 2024! / Guitar Center has a …

Is this a bad idea? We’re playing Fantasy Labelball, the game of hostile takeovers and vicious capitalism, with everyone’s favorite Internet Metal Nerd label: 20 Buck Spin. We’ve kicked in the front door at 20BS HQ and we’re subjecting every band on the roster with our cruel trials to determine who stays, who goes, and who gets a funky new gimmick …

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: We’re talking about amateur hour bar patrons, fake IDs, and a forgotten 1988 home VHS release from BMG: How To Break Into Heavy Metal (Without Getting Screwed). Join us as we hear from Anthrax, White Lion, Doro, Grim Reaper, Lizzie Borden, Helloween, LA Guns, Flotsam and Jetsam, and a whole bunch of industry guys about th…

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: The Norwegian tourist trap that used to be known as Helvete burned down lol / Blake Judd vs Jef Whitehead: FIGHT / Australian NSBM band Drowning the Light wrote a few dozen paragraphs on Facebook about the unimpeachable apolitical nature of sweet lady black metal so you know we gotta do a dramatic reading / Trapt bravely …

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re honing in on a style of 90’s-esque rock n’ roll that we’ve termed Nü Alternative. Though loosely categorized themselves as “grunge”, “shoegaze”, “post-hardcore” and a variety of other subgenres, we propose that all of these bands could fall under our umbrella of turn-of-the-century-big-ass-riff-ass-rock. We’re talki…

This week on Toilet Radio: Solar eclipse! Meyers Briggs! A Gen-X listener sends us an email about the heavy metal discovery habits of the youths! DJ Ashba, a 51-year old Las Vegas street magician, tried to threaten us with legal action via email! Chris Barnes quit smoking weed! Billy Corgan and Fred Durst are teaming up with Bill Maher to make awfu…

This week on Toilet Radio: Tommy Vext is teaming up with the guy that got fired from Thy Art is Murder on a ChatGPT-penned track that absolutely honks. We explore. Joe found a Billboard top modern rock tracks chart from 2002 that sent him into a downward spiral. We spend a good portion of the show talking about music in the Before Internet times, t…

This week on Toilet Radio: Making fun of teenage hardcore kids, people going feral at the Municipal Waste tour, Evil Dead (?) are back (?) and they’re still upset about masks (?), Aaron Lewis dazzles with exquisite wordplay, let’s all enjoy fine vintage wines from the Mustaine family estate, and Blue Ridge Rock Fest rides again (this is a threat). …

This week on Toilet Radio: The Summer Tour of the year was just announced. We can’t wait to get down with Slaughter to Prevail, Marilyn Manson, and Five Finger Death Punch. / Metallica has a fake charity they use to trade money with other fake charities / We need a moratorium on biopics for dead musicians from the 70s. / Blabbermouth and the Jamey …

Deathcore. It is a genre of music that still exists. A staggeringly small number of bands have even found some success with it. Surely there must be something to it, right? On this week’s episode of Toilet Radio, we take a look at a handful of these bands to do a close reading of the lyrics beneath all the hurgling and gurgling. We explore the lyri…