"When others need your time, you say it's time to go. it's Your time." (U2-Like A Song. From the album- War-1983)

It soon will be 2025's time to go. On this edition of Local Loft, the year will rock out with a grind

Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre is a four-man Chicago hardcore metal band who has been slightly inspired by a classic 1974 hardcore horror film about a mechanical grinding weapon wielding lunatic. Fronted by Macho Frost (Josh Kandich), they started rocking in 2014 to complete a school project. Their namesake title track is a pissed off, we're not gonna take it anymore threat to the man behind the leather mask. They will slash their way onto the stage at Reggie's Music Joint, Saturday night, December 27th during Holiday Of Horror, the annual post-Christmas live Chicago area music bash thrown by the masters of Horror Metal, Macabre. Josh joins me, along with a story of how a famous film Terminator inspired a diss song about a favorite toy superhero.

I'll spoil the surprise, of which original Chicagoland metal, punk, alternative rock and power pop bands and artists made the often-checked list of the best in the scene over the last 12 months. year in Review 2025.

Let the unwrapping and cheat sheeting begin. The final 2025 gift of original Chicagoland music is:

Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre-Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre

Texas Toast Chainsaw Massacre-Nobody Likes You, Booster (featuring Eddie Eskevel of Smash Potater

Macabre-Holiday of Horror

Ur Mom (2025 Best Original Chicagoland Alternative Rock Band)-In My Nature

Tyre Fyre(2025 Best Original Chicagoland Punk Band)-Feed Me (From The Totally punk Anti Government Celebration Of The People Party, Punk Rock Tacos, Cemitas Poblanas, Villa Park Local Loft Epiosde 388 7/6/25)

Four Horsemyn (2025 Best Original Chicagoland Metal Band)-Bang Bang (Local Loft Episode 395-8/24/25)

Wolfdozer-(2025 Best Original Chicagoland Metal Album-Volume 001) Down Home (Kankakee Estival Festival Local Loft Episode 399-9/20/25)

The Lunatic's Fringe-(live at A Celebration Best Original Chicagoland Live Show The Forge, Joliet 9/7/25 Local Loft Episode 397) Counterinsurgency

Colleen Wild And The Haunted-Hounded (Live at A Celebration Best Original 2025 Chicagoland Live Show, The Forge In Joliet 9/7/25 Local Loft Episode 397)

Solar-Frantically Calm (Best Original 2025 Chicagoland Rock Album-Frantically Calm and Best Original 2025 Chicagoland Rock Band)