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On June 28th, 2023, every band’s worst nightmare became reality for our good friends in Year of the Knife - they were involved in a horrific van accident while on tour, which put the band on hiatus and ultimately lead to vocalist MADISON WATKINS being in in critical condition, suffering major physical trauma, experiencing over a month of memory loss and fracturing nearly every bone in her body. Af...

HardLore presents... LETTERMOSHD! While attending the Triple B Records / Daze / Streets of Hate showcase in Brooklyn, Colin and Bo talked to the hardcore musicians (and friends!) brave enough to share their picks for their 4 favorite hardcore albums of all time. Thanks to Terror, Big Boy, King Nine, Bulldoze, Age of Apocalypse, Balisong, Hold my Own, Combust, Pain of Truth, Aaron Warman, Twitching...

Colin and Bo sit down with LDBBB Fest promoters Sam Yarmuth (Triple B Records) and Colin Feeney (Gold Theory Artists) to talk about this year's installment of the midwest United State's premiere hardcore festival, LDB Fest, this year featuring a unique twist of being co-presented by Triple B Records for the first time. HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early...

Colin and Bo recap a recent Texas tour featuring HardLore's own Twitching Tongues and God's Hate, alongside Incendiary, Violencia, Suburban Scum, Judiciary, Conservative Military Image and more! HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardlorepod HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records...

HardLore sits back down together for the first time in weeks, catching up in this 3 hour Q&A/recap of Colin's time in Japan and playing Just Another Gig festival in Tacoma, WA the next day. HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef This episode is brought to you by ATHLETIC GREENS! Try AG1 at athleticgreens.co...

Months after presenting you their picks for "soft songs" by "hard bands", Colin and Bo finally present their highly requested picks for HARD songs by soft bands... Hard and soft are as subjective as they come, but enjoy our insane rationalizations to why these songs belong in our least hardcore-oriented episode yet (sorry!) Listen to the official playlist here: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/p...

HardLore sits down with Brendan Garrone, the enigmatic frontman of INCENDIARY, contemporary Long Island legends. Occuring just minutes after their incredible set at FYA Fest 2024, we hear all about Incendiary's origins and their early goals as the most local of local bands, how Cost of Living accelerated their growth expeditiously, and what a massive undertaking it is to release 4 full length albu...

HardLore is joined by Trey Williams, drummer of the legendary death metal band Dying Fetus, whom we have officially dubbed "the hardest band to ever play music". This interview occured just hours before their incredible and highly anticipated set at this year's FYA Fest, the preeminent hardcore music festival in Florida/the whole Southeast USA. Dying Fetus has always been a band that can fit in an...

Colin and Bo are back together at HardLore HQ so they figured they'd take this week to catch you all up on what they've had going on and do a special Q&A based on the questions that you all submitted to Discord and Twitter. HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store: https://hardlorepod.com Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef This episode is brought to you by ATHLETIC GR...

HardLore is joined this week for an unbelievable and unfiltered conversation with Parris Mayhew, currently of AGGROS, but formerly the co-founder/original co-writer of legendary New York Hardcore band, the CRO-MAGS. The Cro-Mags are inarguably one of the most influential and important hardcore bands of all time, and the sheer insanity and legend of the internal twists and turns within the band its...

Colin and Bo are back from FYA Fest 2024, and for the very first time, we're joined by festival promoter Bob Wilson himself to go in depth about the lineup, presentation and everything else that goes into putting on the first big hardcore festival of the year for 10 years and running. Also for the very first time, our HardLore On the Street segment was spliced into this episode to further enhance...

HardLore is joined by LONG time friend of the show and Fleshwater singer Marisa Shirar, also known as Mirsy. Born and raised in the San Fernando Valley, we talk about Marisa's journey from being scouted by a teacher at her high school, to cutting her teeth at the Cobalt Cafe, her history with Colin and Twitching Tongues, meeting her boyfriend and now bandmate Anthony, joining Fleshwater, her exten...

Happy New Year! For our first episode of the year, we are joined by GRAMMY-WINNING producer/recording engineer Will Putney. Aside from being the master of the modern metalcore sound for other bands, he is well known for playing guitar in genre-staple Fit For An Autopsy, multi-regional supergroup END, and the spiritual successor to Every Time I Die, Better Lovers. We discuss getting his start as a...

As 2023 comes to a close, HardLore wanted to thank all of you are for making our first full calendar year an unbelievable success. We wanted to look back at a few of our personal favorite moments and episodes from this year, but we put our hearts into every single episode and hope it shows. We love you all. It is and forever will be HardLore time. See you next year. Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: http...

It's time for the first ever annual HardLore Awards, celebrating the best of hardcore music in 2023. All nominations were hand-selected by an 8-person committee and HardLore from all 13 categories that will be awarded today The categories are... ALBUM OF THE YEAR EP OF THE YEAR SINGLE OF THE YEAR HARDCORE MFS PLAYING ALTERNATIVE TYPE SHIT AOTY HARDCORE MFS PLAYING DEATH METAL TYPE SHIT AOTY MUSIC...

When hard bands go soft... Today on HardLore we explore our favorite "soft" songs played by bands that are normally much harder. Not every ballad is soft and not every soft song is a ballad. We're here to fill the gaps and educate the HardLore listeners by expanding their musical palette, because we all know that the hardest thing a band can truly do is sing about their feelings or take a sonic ri...

Colin and Bo welcome back Zuma, vocalist and guitar player of Kruelty from Tokyo, Japan. Zuma's passionate opinions on American fast food are responsible for HardLore's most watched clip of all time, so we figured it only made sense to have him break down ALL of his thoughts on what it's like to experience American Cuisine while on the road in the states with Kruelty with this comprehensive TIER L...

Happy Thanksgiving, It's finally HardLore time. The first newly recorded episode in 5 weeks! With the Harms Way "Common Suffering" tour wrapped up, Bo and Colin are home and reunite to fill each other in on everything they've missed. What is a headlining tour like in 2023? How was Flyover Fest? How much money did Colin lose? Find out in this massive 3 hour episode. Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https...

Gridiron: Fueled by football, McDonald's, and hard riffs. After releasing one of our favorite albums of 2022, Gridiron joined us live and in-person at FYA Fest 2023. Fronted by Matt Karll, longtime local PAHC figurehead and composed by Will Kaelin, the insanely talented riff-machine from Never Ending Game. Enjoy this chaotic 30-minute look into what makes Gridiron so special. We will be back to lo...

Thumbnail photo by Reid Haithcock. Colin and Bo talked to Nate Newton from Converge, Cave In, Doomriders and MUCH MORE in-person in Manchester, UK, and as stated in the intro, Nate is true legend both personally and creatively in hardcore/punk, a pioneer at juggling multiple incredible bands and expertly filling multiple rolls in all of them and we can't wait to have him back on. We talk Converge'...

While Bo is on tour with Harms Way and Colin is recovering from being possessed by the spirit of Ronald McDonald, we bring you this very special extended mini-HardLore from the vault with one of the great modern riffers of our time: The great Isaac Hale of Knocked Loose, Inclination and Weapon X. They talk bonding through the Cheescake Factory, touring with each other as strangers, being called in...

The HFL season has begun, which means this week on HardLore sees Colin and Bo each drafting a team of 10 hardcore records and competing for sonic supremacy... Tell us the winner below! Here's the rules: 1. 3 records per decade. 2. You can't pick two records by the same band. 3. No kicks to the groin. (Apologies for any noise gate/audio issues, our interface had a STUPID malfunction so you can blam...

Colin turns the tables on Bo this week and talks to 4/5 members of half of the HardLore namesake: Harms Way. Joined by Singer James Pligge, drummer Chris Mills, guitarist Nick Gauthier, and of course our very own Bo Lueders. They discuss the new album Common Suffering in depth, breaking down the writing, production, recording and release of the album, eventually talking all about the personal dyna...

In this special HardLore event episode, Colin puts his claims of thinking he can eat 200 McNuggets in one sitting to the test while he and Bo's New York plans were flooded during historic rainfall in September 2023. Can he do it? Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggef This episode is brought to you by Loop Earplugs! Try a pair of Loop Earplugs by using https://www.loopearplugs.co...

In this very special HardLore episode that's the first of its kind, Colin and Bo spent an eventful day in Manchester, United Kingdom and put it all together into one great big deluxe video presentation, featuring three chapters... Chapter I: They walked through Manchester with Jimmy Wizard, Higher Power's vocalist prior to Outbreak Fest 2023 and learned about Jimmy's entry into hardcore, Higher Po...