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…

SLAAAAAYER is back because of fucking course they were gonna come back. St Vitus, beloved NYC venue, got shut down over the complaints of one extremely angry pussy. Let’s host an Empire Records-esque fundraiser to get it back open again. Patrick Mameli of Pestilence defends his extremely stupid decision to use AI generated album artwork for the ban…

This week on Toilet Radio we took our time absorbing the arcane and esoteric knowledge contained within Bardo Methodology interviews. Hails my brethren, for did we learn much of the limitless wisdom of the cosmos contained within the multitudinous verbiage of these titans of hessian heavy metal. Forsooth, the simple lemmings of this world could nev…

This week on Toilet Radio: Zoomers pine for the days of ringtone rap – did you know why ringtones are no longer as popular? Joe explains how the government actually shut that shit down. / Super Bowl but WHERE METALLICA BUHHH / Kanye’s Lords of Chaos era sucks / Meeting unironic Nickleback fans / Kerry “Burger” King’s new solo music sounds exactly l…

Nuclear Blast is getting into the Metaverse with an NFT scam courtesy a predatory children’s game/monetization tool called The Sandbox. / Thanks to a crypto industry news service, we get to meet the team behind Megadeth’s years-long push to make some money, somewhere from crypto, web3, NFTs and whatever else can generate a few bucks from nothing – …

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re wrapping up loose threads on our quest to get to the bottom of insidious global conspiracies. We started this last week but we had no idea just how deep the rabbit hole would go. This time around we spend a good chunk of time hearing out Son of Liberty, Jon Schaffer’s ramblings about a conspiracy to create the Feder…

Last month Eenzy caught up with Atlanta-based chaotic hardcore luminaries Apostle for a heartfelt hobnob after a show. The band gets into how they adapted to losing a member and becoming a trio, how they support each other creatively and emotionally in the band, and they land some solid burns at the expense of jazz and black metal (genres famous fo…

This week on Toilet Radio: We explore some common conspiracy theories in metal. No, we’re not talking about the Silencer guy replacing his hands with hooves again. Instead, we’re looking at common conspiracy theory fodder that bands use for song inspiration. We’ve got all your favorite wild and wacky conspiracy types here: 9/11 truthers, Illuminati…

This week on Toilet Radio: A final Kottak Attack! Machine Gun Kelly has the worst signature guitar of all time and it somehow caused Sanguisugabogg and Ronnie Radke to send each other death threats. Fronz of Attila has released a brand of gum meant for giving you an ultra manly man chad jaw. Finally, a magical warehouse that sends you literally any…

This week on Toilet Radio we watched 1989 Christian documentary Hell’s Bells: The Dangers of Rock N’ Roll. Jordan and I sat down and watched all three hours of this thing so we could bring you the choicest nugs of a film that, quite honestly, has a firmer grasp on obscure kvlt heavy metal history than your average Metal Archives dipshit. Hosted by …

This week on Toilet Radio: We’re prematurely celebrating 10 years of Toilet / Blue Ridge Rock Fest patrons may or may not ever get a refund on their tix, depending on how the insurance companies feel about acts of god vs employee walkouts. / The government gave KoRn millions of dollars and that’s fuckin’ tight. / Slipknot is falling apart / Greg Gi…

On this, the last regular show of the year we’re talking about some of our favorite moments of the prior 365 days and a few stories we missed. Topics include: fondly remembering Joe Lynn Turner’s theories and PHIL LABONTE getting shut down on Tinder, various right wing media people getting quietly written out of existence, and Jason Newsted decidin…

This week on Toilet Radio: It’s a very special holiday edition as we give each other very nice presents. Hear the joy in our voices as we open up strange UPS boxes to be delighted with bizarre junk foods and exotic ephemera. BUT THAT’S NOT ALL. We’re also talking about THE SHREDDERZ latest single, a Christmas song, that now has a grand total of 37 …

Do you, like me, often feel lost? Disconnected from the mainstream reality? Has the world of mainstream rock and heavy metal left you behind, clutching your stupid goregrind FLACs? This episode is for you. Jordan and I dug through the Billboard data to find the 20 most popular rock and heavy metal songs of the year 2023. Join us as we listen to eac…

We’re winding down the year on Toilet Radio. This week we’re playing you our favorite jammy jams of the fiscal year ending 2k23. That’s right, we’re talking about music that we actually like. Quelle horreur. To make up for this error in judgement, next week we’re playing you the top 20 most streamed “rock” and/or “metal” songs of the year as decide…

This week on Toilet Radio: We explore some of the most excruciating “metal” covers of Christmas songs we could find. We’ve got AI Ozzy screaming about snowmen, Tarja (ex-Nightwish) doing some evil Disney princess shit with Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer, a ton of extremely crappy All I Want for Christmas is You covers thanks to Ripper Owens and the…

This week on Toilet Radio: We receive some terribly sad news about our friend Justin Davisson aka Jushin Thunder Lager aka Tree of Whoa aka Chapel of Ghoulies. You may remember him from some contribution pieces, his presence in the comments, or the two episodes of Toilet Radio I recorded with him. He was always a positive, sweet presence around her…

THIS WEEK ON TOILET RADIO: We’re talking about Damien Rugna’s latest film, When Evil Lurks. Oh, and Municipal Waste, as a concept, is old enough to drink which is fucked up. But mostly we’re talking about Sharon Osbourne’s terrible, racist disco song from the 70s, fleecing Ozzfest participants with pay-to-play schemes, and the bizarre contention th…