Flush it Friday: Indittypabitty Day
Or whatever.
Converge & Coalesce – Live at CBGBs
Independent | June 13, 2025
Released as both a tribute for Rich Hall and fundraiser for his grieving family, this set from November 1996 captures two now-legendary acts at the brimming cusp of their future greatness. For Converge’s side of things, you get half of Petitioning the Empty Sky in all its raucous, eye-popping glory. Coalesce offers up everything from their first 7” to a few tracks that would be part of the forthcoming Give Them Rope. Without playing favourites, Coalesce’s side of the split really shines. “Grain of Salt” is the standout, showcasing how unique and forward-thinking the band already was at the time.
Windchimes – Enveloping Retribution
Independent | April 4, 2025
Slammy “postdeath” from the Paris of Appalachia. You’re drawn in by Bharata Danu’s pen-on-paper album art. You notice that sick uneven, sloping band logo and the unconventional band name. The thick, sledging riffs keep you interested as the lyrics soon delight you in a world gone to shit. You gurgle along to “Civil Serpent” as all forms of civil cowardice unfurl themselves around you. You appreciate the screechy touches of black metal that introduce the doomier side of things on “Silk & Gold.” You noodle-knock in agreement to “Poverty Tourism.” You ignore the deathcore tags. You have a great time.
Goat Shaman – Monkey Palace
Independent | June 27, 2025
Is 2025 quietly a great year for stoner metal? Goat Shaman are working some kind of ancient magic that has me increasingly ensorcelled with every listen. It’s barbaric what happens when the band suddenly slows things down on “Snail Grail” and then wails you with it. It’s absurd that a song that starts with the line “Wank with the wilderness” would be 10 minutes long and worth every second. Sometimes I hear a roid-raged Clutch junked out on old Floor. Sometimes I hear the sheer heaviness of Beaten Back to Pure without the Confederate horseshit. Soulpreacher was never this loud.
MOVINGDIGGINGTEETH – S/T
Independent | July 1, 2025
You wouldn’t know it by the blitz of energy infusing this grindy, sludgy, Florida-as-Hell thrashcore, but this band is full of a bunch of old guys. I have it on good authority that these old guys were in Railsplitter some 20 years ago. They used to sell their own barbecue sauce at shows! After you listen to this EP 4 or 5 times in a row, see if you can’t wrangle up 860 Some Odd Lbs. for a fun blast of nostalgia and huge riffs. Then come back to MOVINGDIGGINGTEETH and get twisted up by “Like Vultures” and “Chain of Hands.”
Body Minus Head – An Exercise in Self-Sufficiency
No Funeral Records | May 30, 2025
I know we all agreed on “dark hardcore” as what Cursed was doing, but did we ever really like saying the words “dark hardcore?” But it fits! It’s not quite crust, and it’s not quite skramz. It retains something blunter, more primordial, so it has to be hardcore, yet it’s coated in a rime of atmosphere and bad feelings, so it has to be something else. In any case, I’m glad these Ontarians are doing it all over again. “Reset to Factory Default,” “A Form More Rigid,” and “Violence Against Everyone” in the middle of the album have me hooked.
LET’S FLUSH AND TAKE A VACATION.
TMPin’ with Stick and TTTin’ with Roldy.
An extra half toilet for the new Heaven Shall Burn from Stevo.
A Spear Premiere! New stuff from Bloodletter.
Brock somehow hasn’t melted yet, so here’s a deluge of dissonance.
Toilet Radio 568 features Joe n Jordan hittin’ the way-back machine to parking lots of the early ’80s.
A much-beleaguered Reliquary Tower is also a little fearful this week.
Stevo is wealdin’ over the latest from Weald & Woe.
There we go! GBUs in the comments. I hope you’re not toiling for a wage today.
