Flush It Friday: Our Love is Loud
So fuck your hate.
Fastbreak – Whenever You’re Ready
Revelation Records | January 1, 1999
Over on No Echo, Carlos Ramirez is conducting interviews with a host of ’90s hardcore bands. Connecticut’s Fastbreak, who originally straddled the line of the last of the original youth crew bands and the very tip of the youth crew revival in the mid-1990s, released what would ultimately be their last album on the inimitable Revelation Records in 1999 with a sound much indebted to the melodic sound of heroes and contemporaries Lifetime and Saves the Day. In a weird quirk, I heard this long before I heard the demos. “Music is My Girlfriend” has been a favourite ever since.
PeelingFlesh – PF Radio
Daze Records / Vile Tapes | 2023 / 2025
On this very Friday, September 26, Toilet favourites PeelingFlesh will release their newest LP PF Radio 2 on Unique Leader. For the uninitiated, the world’s best slam band has teamed up with Daze Records to re-release three earlier records predating the band’s 2024 breakout G Code. Available for barely anything digitally and for just barely anything more on CD, these albums showcase how fun, creative, and singular the band has always been. With all due respect to John Mateer, we don’t want OU in the SEC, but we do want OKC’s PeelingFlesh destroying our raggedy car stereos all the time.
Pile – Sunshine and Balance Beams
Sooper Records | August 15, 2025
One of the greatest bands Boston ever produced returned in August with their ninth LP Sunshine and Balance Beams, and it’s gone unremarked on this site for too long. Pile’s Dripping is one of the best, most mind-bending rock records of the 21st century. Less bombastic and left-handed than some predecessors, Sunshine and Balance Beams finds the band at no loss to craft bizarrely catchy grungy post-punk that zags and zigs when it should zig and zag. Rick Maguire still sounds like no one else but himself, and I only hope I stumble my way to their upcoming Atlanta show.
Demiurgon – Miasmatic Death Chamber
Transcending Obscurity | September 26, 2025
Italy’s Demiurgon is roaringly back with their third LP. Previously described as a “monstrous crushing machine” with the ability to “cram all manner of artificial harmonics, scrapes, slides, and dives” into each track, the band is still the “perfect soundtrack to accompany [your] repressed rage.” Chthonic tentacles double-helix their way through an otherwise spike-ridden album cover, encapsulating the band’s penchant for sharp breaks, piercing wails, and an effortless, otherworldly compositional sleekness. If you weren’t already a fan, Miasmatic Death Chamber, with its hideously divine origins in the brutal tech death of Origin and Hideous Divinity, will convert you toot suite.
NEKS – Point of No Return
Independent | September 16, 2025
Gary Cioni (Crime in Stereo, Daytrader) is back with a host of fellow hardcore luminaries with a new band facing fearlessly the fascistic turn of our current moment. Taking the melodic and downtrodden grooves of Quicksand, the catalytic urgency of Snapcase, and the eternal poetry of Modern Life is War, NEKS is reviving bad-vibes revolution when we need it the most. “Yeah, this life is all we know,” Cioni opens standout “Plebeians,” but it still “gets to [us] sometimes.” Resigned yet rebellious. Clear-eyed yet still dreaming. Under no pretense yet still refusing the pressure. We’re always asking: what comes next?
THUS WE FLUSH ON HUG A VEGAN DAY!
Great stuff as always from Stick‘s TMP and Roldy‘s TTT.
Reliquary Tower says what must be said about the new Castle Rat.
Brock says what must be said about frankly I don’t know what.
Toilet Radio 582 has jokes! Joe n Jordan take on the fraught “genre” of comedy metal.
Rolderathis premiered us a great new track from Incriminating Silence.
Track Premiere: Incriminating Silence – “Curse of the Clairvoyant”
I‘m here promoting Engagement with Enragement. New album out next week.
Stevo trekked out to the borderland for this Amorphis review.
Regardless of release, Spear has always worshiped at the altar of Revocation.
And so goes another week in the Bowl. Slap your GBUs in the comments. Go Dawgs. Fuck Bama. Love love love.
