Flush It Friday: Fuck the Pigs
Not the ones with snouts, of course.
V/A – The Dogs of Hope
Iodine Recordings | August 8, 2025
Organized by Tom Bejgorwicz and Iodine Recordings, The Dogs of Hope is a compilation of 14 tracks for $14 to benefit the Randolph County Animal Shelter, a no-kill shelter “operating without public funding or county support.” The compilation opens and closes with Walter Schreifels reimagining Pink Floyd’s “Pigs on the Wing,” while a bunch of other old fogeys bring something new to the table. Snapcase has gang vocals and thrash riffs? Jeromes Dream continues their skramz resurrection tour. Orange 9mm has been dead since 1999! Taken is back, too. We also get to discover Roman Candle. Wild. For the puppers.
Cold Snap – Tradition of Disregard
Independent | July 25, 2025
If you name yourself after a Suicide File song, I’m simply forced to pay attention. You’ll definitely hear the aforementioned in these 4 songs, but I’m also getting notes of Hope Conspiracy, Horror Show, Dead Hearts, Paint It Black, and Turn it Around-era Comeback Kid. Melodic hardcore played earnestly and honestly with an unmistakable determination. Something like a tear falling on concrete. It’s delicate until it’s not. It’s a bleeding and broken heart until it’s gnashed teeth and clenched fists. Opener “Immolation” and closer “Penance” are the standouts here, but anything here can become your next anthem. Can I scream?
Native Nod – This Can’t Exist
Numero Group | September 1, 2023
Though the track list is nearly the same as the 1995 compilation Today Puberty, Tomorrow the World, the new(ish) reissue of these 8 tracks from 3 7”s released between 1992-1995 by Numero Group offers to a wider audience the brief-but-highly-influential career of New Jersey’s Native Nod. There’s something exquisitely unique (or perhaps uniquely exquisite) about a band who never played a show outside the tri-state area and only wrote a handful of songs becoming so foundational. Sure, you can buy the records on Discogs now. But back in the early aughts? These were the stuff of legend.
Unaligned – A Form Beyond
Transcending Obscurity | September 12, 2025
Featuring members of Withered Throne, Demon King, Fleshbore, Killitorous, and Nightspake, Unaligned are playing tech death that borrows from and expands upon these shared other projects. Do you prefer fret-play to foreplay? You’ll be engorged. Do you want everything to be slightly blackened and charred? How delicious. Fans of Inferi will get their fill here, though I can’t shake the feeling that the sensibilities of Hath are all over this record. It’s not as proggy as All That Was Promised, but something about Andrew Guia’s vocals keep drawing me back to that album. A Form Beyond demands your fractured attention.
Wrekmeister Harmonies – Flowers in the Spring
Thrill Jockey | February 21, 2025
The latest album from JR Robinson and Esther Shaw has become one of my favourite releases of the year. Title track “Flowers in the Spring” is somewhere between the desert-dusted drone of Earth and the shimmering guitar psychedelics of Expo 70. I can feel my whole body relax almost immediately, constricted in defense from a surfeit of plagues. “Fuck the Pigs” and “A Shepherd Stares into the Sun” are as gentle as they are poetic. Though I forgot for a time, as happens so tragically, this is a transcendent reminder that Wrekmeister Harmonies has always meant so much to me.
AND THUS WE FLUSH.
TMPin’ with Stick and TTTin’ with Roldy.
Spear premiered a new track from Graveripper that, get this, rips.
A full 5 flaming toilets from Falxifer for the new Lathe of Heaven.
Toilet Radio 581 is all things post metal with Joe n Jordan. I’ve been saving this for this weekend. I can’t wait. I love so many of these bands!
365 has a new track from Constrict that does not shy away from the brutalities of our world.
I love Minis so much. Eenzy, Hans, Silent K, and 365 serve up a round of tapas that can only entice your appetite for more.
Falxifer double dips to toss 4 flaming toilets to Wode for their forthcoming record.
Throw your GBUs into the comments. I hope you’re surviving if you can’t be thriving. Hugs and kisses.
