HardLore

Today we're taking you to HC101 and sharing our favorite live videos of all time throughout hardcore history. There are hundreds of possibilities here, but we narrowed it down to a solid batch of gateway, landmark live sets in hardcore that someone sat us down at some point in our lives to share with us. These are timeless moments in the genre that influenced generations and generations of bands a...

Happy 3 year anniversary to us! We can't thank you enough for the support these past 3 beautiful years. We celebrated by sharing a few of our favorite moments from the past year, and then with a big special Q&A where we answered questions submitted by HardLore Patrons. We love you all and we're just getting started. Peace! Join the HARDLORE PATREON to ask questions on future episodes like these, a...

HardLore is finally joined by one of the most influential vocalists and artists in the history of hardcore/punk: Dwid Hellion of Integrity. This 3-hour sprawling epic starts at his childhood in Louisville, KY accidentally making harsh noise in his backyard, all the way to becoming a permanent staple of the Cleveland Hardcore Mt. Rushmore. Integrity's rise in the 90s with records like "Those Who Fe...

HardLore is finally joined by the Tyrant himself: the living legend that is TODD JONES. Now known as the vocalist/guitarist of NAILS, Todd also co-founded Terror, Sound & Fury festival, and played guitar in Carry On, Betrayed, Blacklisted and MUCH more. We took a deep dive into Todd's journey from young straight edge kid in the 805, to founding Terror after Carry On, all the way through the entire...

We're joined by one of the most influential frontmen in hardcore music history, the godfather of vegan straight edge: Karl Buechner of Earth Crisis, Path of Resistance and Freya. We were lucky enough to spend nearly three hours with Karl talking about his journey from being a young punk in Syracuse, to starting Earth Crisis and influencing countless people worldwide over the last 30+ years. An inc...

We keep assigning ourselves these impossible tasks, but alas, here we go... We picked our top 10 riffs of all time while Bo was down under in Australia with Harms Way, so it only made sense to be joined by our favorite Australian riff aficionado: Aaron Osborne of Extortion, AGLO, and the Oblivious Maximum podcast. Any band, any genre. Enjoy. Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly e...

We're ending February with a bang! Today we're doing everyone's favorite thing and answering your questions from the HardLore Discord for this beautiful 2+ hour special. ...and you finally see the results of "The Big Race." Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/HardLorePod?utm_medium=unknown&utm_s...

Today we're talking about the closing tracks (last songs) on albums that we believe to be amongst the best of the best in hardcore, metal and punk. A lost art that used to be placed with the intention of being the ultimate last statement and definitive piece of a record, but is now used as the place to dump the song that gets the least streams. We are here today to celebrate this beautiful pastime...

Our guest this week is... YOU! We figured we'd heard from plenty of musician's about their favorite hardcore records ever, why not ask the people? We hit the street at FYA Fest 2025 to talk to the heart of this community, the attendees, in order to find out what they considered all time hardcore classics. We also wanted to hear about the wildest thing they witnessed while at FYA Fest for the weeke...

HardLore is joined in-person by Jamie Muckinhaupt, AKA Jamie Pushbutton. You may not recognize him, but any fan of hardcore music as we know it today will certainly recognize his drumming. Depending on who you ask, he is as much myth as he is legend… Jamie is the original drummer of Death Threat (performing on “Last Dayz” and “Peace & Security”) and mostly notably was the drummer on Hatebreed’s gr...

HardLore is joined by our 2024 Album of the Year Award Winners for a very special in-person episode! Vocalist and Mike Ryan and drummer Paul Dove sat with us at FYA fest and told us all about their personal paths to finding hardcore music, meeting each other, touring and playing in other bands, and eventually starting Missing Link many years later, We go in depth about the making of their incredib...

Welcome everybody to the 2nd Annual HardLore Award! Celebrating the best releases of 2024 across hardcore, metal, punk and everything in between. There were hundreds of great records released in 2024, these are the chosen few decided to represent the best of the best. Filmed live at FYA Fest, enjoy! Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusi...

HardLore presents our 3rd annual recap of the festival that rings in each calendar year for hardcore music! This year emanating from Orlando, Florida. Featuring FYA Fest founder Bob Wilson and longtime stage manager and friend of the show John Scanlon to go into detail about putting the lineup together, the logistics of running the fest, and a band by band breakdown of both days. - Join the HARDLO...

A band's name is your first impression, and sometimes it's all you need to hear to know you'll be a fan... Sometimes it's the opposite, and you know it'll never be for you. Either way, a band name is the source of their identity and eventually loses all textbook meaning, remaining only as a powerful symbol of the music it represents. These are our favorites, and least favorites. - Join the HARDLOR...

God why did we do this... To ring in the new year with a BANG, HardLore proudly yet hesitantly presents our personal picks for our top 10 favorite albums of all time. This was so hard. Please bury us softly. Enjoy. - Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardlorepod - Join the HARDLORE DISCORD: ht...

For our final episode of the year, we proudly present a compilation of some of our personal favorite moments from throughout all 52 weeks of HardLore episodes this year. We've already got some big plans and episodes in the works for 2025, but for now we thank you for the ongoing support and hope you enjoy. - Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongsid...

For the very first time... HardLore and The Downbeat (Craig Reynolds) together at last. Two podcasts finally collide LIVE at a sold out event in Buffalo, New York before Better Lovers' second annual Holiday show: Blissmas. Filmed live by our good buddy Rob Menzer (New York HardLore series) and edited in record time by our main man Steven 197, enjoy this incredibly special live episode of both show...

It's HardLore Christmas time! We're ringing in with December (AKA the best time of year) with a classic Q&A special, where we answer more than 2 hours of questions from the HardLore audience. We also get into how Deadbody playing AEW happened, our thoughts on Knocked Loose playing Kimmel, and much more! Three new HardLore shirts out now, thank you: https://knotfest.com/collections/hardlore - Join...

HardLore proudly presents our 40 (20 each) picks for our favorite recorded guest vocal features of all time within the hardcore, metal and punk genres. Features are a timeless art that exists in every genre of music, where likely and unlikely artists collaborate to make something one of a kind that couldn't be achieved alone. It's a foolproof method to create new stars, or re-cement legends, and s...

This week on HardLore features special guest Leah Massey, vocalist of the United Kingdom's absolute best and brightest new band: PEST CONTROL. The crossover band inspired by classics such as Anthrax and Suicidal Tendencies also draws from some of HardLore's cult favorites like the Crumbsuckers, and Leah walks us through her journey from young emo kid, to discovering hardcore in Leeds' vibrant hard...

HardLore is finally joined by modern hardcore's most charismatic frontman, AKIL GODSEY of Baltimore's END IT. End It quickly went from local band, to nationwide hardcore festival staple, to now worldwide phenomenon all by practicing the most important thing a hardcore band can be: AUTHENTIC. 00:00:00 - Start 00:00:49 - Introduction 00:04:33 - Moral Code 00:07:34 - The Orgin of Akil 00:09:13 - Show...

A HardLore Investigative Special… In this incredibly special deep dive, we sit down with an important name in Misfits history: Tom Bejgrowicz, formerly of Caroline Records. When the band sued Danzig for nearly 20 years of back payment for performance royalties, Caroline Records stepped into the foot the bill… in exchange for owning the entire Misfits discography. Enter then lower level Caroline em...

This week we have a very special guest and VERY important musician when it comes to the DNA of our show and one of our bands in particular... We are joined by the incomparable Only Living Witness vocalist Jonah Jenkins. The short lived, but ahead of their time and impactful band existed for only 6 years, managing to release 2 iconic LPs in that time that would become cult classics and contribute t...

Happy Halloween! We're celebrating the only way we know how: Putting on costumes and talking about Hatebreed. Harm's Way just got home (literally minutes before this episode was filmed) from a month long tour with Hatebreed, Carcass and Crypta and we're gonna hear all about it. PLUS some inside info about the very fast and very intricate making of/rollout of Twitching Tongues newest Misfits tribut...

Hello welcome, it's HauntLore time... In this year's SPOOKY edition of HardLore's Haunted Spinoff, we received a very special tour of the Queen Mary, the world's most haunted ship, via The Grey Ghost Project's incredible guide, Rebecca Knight. This nearly 100 year old ship has survived multiple wars and over 1001 trips across the Atlantic... and at least 47 deaths.. Will Bo finally be a believer?...