The Toxhards Return With A Funk Song About Depression “ALLIGATOR CROCODILE”

Filmed at their most recent sold-out Denver show, the music video for “ALLIGATOR CROCODILE” opens with the band tearing through the venue before the whole room becomes a collective fever dream. Gloriously unhinged and sing-along ready, this new video encapsulates The Toxhards live experience, a rare moment where a room full of strangers walk out as lifelong friends. Fans can watch the brand new video HERE.

With the kind of disarming honesty that make The Toxhards so hard to look away from, Alan Powers pulls the curtain on how “ALLIGATOR CROCODILE” came to light:

““ALLIGATOR CROCODILE” is a danceable suicide note.

During a nasty battle with depression during our fall tour of 2025, I had this overwhelming feeling of phoniness; that every happy fan I met at our shows would actually hate me if they got to truly know me, that all my friends were just around me as a result of a sunk-cost fallacy. These feelings stemmed from unresolved traumatic events from several years ago. I wrote these confessions into a small notebook while on tour, and they somehow became the backbone of the song’s lyrics.

Coming off the ambitious concept album that was Your Neighborhood, we wanted to write something fun and upbeat, and this song went through a lot of iterations before we settled on the dancy, dare I say FUNKY (suburban, butter-and-salt-less funk?) Talking-Heads-inspired groove throughout the song. It’s an insane amalgamation of this joy we felt making the song, married with the most vulnerable lyrics I’ve ever written.”

Armed with songs about hog gods, suburbia-induced panic, and love stories that fray at the edges, The Toxhards are continuing their Get Destructive Tour like a thirty-seven stop live wire experiment in how far they can push a rock show before it morphs into a full-blown cathartic meltdown with a mosh pit. Each night promises a slightly different strain of chaos, where the band will be swapping instruments, derailing songs into choreographed (and unchoreographed) bits, and crowd interaction that blurs the line between show and shared hallucination. Fans can purchase tickets on Friday HERE.

What started as a casual hobby project among college friends has since grown into one of alternative rock’s most distinctive cult followings. The Toxhards built their audience in the modern way, a breakout TikTok moment behind their single, “How Lucky Am I?” that snowballed into a string of increasingly unhinged fan favorites. First, “Doombop”, a genre-blending blast of existential noise that cemented the band’s reputation for delightful chaos. Then, “Ængus, The Prize-Winning Hog”, a song about a hog deity that somehow racked up over 7 million views across social media and even caught the attention of Hopeless Records, who signed the band in 2023.

Last year saw the release of their debut full-length concept album, “Your Neighborhood”, a record that follows a young man’s spiral through heartbreak, grief, isolation, and a brush with death that forces an uncomfortable reckoning. Earning widespread praise from Knotfest and The Needle Drop for the band’s songwriting ambition, melodic instincts, and insane live presence, “Your Neighborhood” made it clear that The Toxhards are a band with something for everyone and everything for someone.

Stay tuned for more news from The Toxhards soon.