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The Summer 2025 HardLore Q&A Special has arrived, we answered a huge array of questions from our Patreon and Discord ranging from our thoughts on Turnstile's new album "Never Enough", the spinkick heard 'round the world, our favorite merch designs ever, how we'd rank every Metallica album ever, and MUUUUCH more. Enjoy our favorite type of episode to do! Edited by Steven Grise (@iamoneonenineseven)...

This week HardLore is celebrating modern hardcore greatness as we BREAK DOWN some of our favorite breakdowns released between 2000-2025 in the very first new list/ranking video on the new HardLore channel.  Official companion playlist: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0CXJch4lVBtPjPwPgHUeyk?si=28NrGTgzR7y2E_Qi85vnLA Apple Music - https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/hardlore-best-modern-...

WHEEL. OF. LORE-TUNE. Detroit Wheel City baby! Live from Edgemen at Tied Down fest, we were joined by Mongrel, Cosmic Joke and Cyadine for our second ever LIVE game show. All three bands are members of the HARDLORE RECORDS roster and they're battling to find out who is the smartest on the label (at meaningless HardLore-picked word trivia)  ENJ_Y.  Edited by Steven Grise (@iamoneonenineseven) • Tit...

HardLore is joined by COMBUST vocalist Andrew Vacante, the self proclaimed, but unopposed king of Staten Island hardcore fresh off of their highly acclaimed sophomore LP, "BELLY OF THE BEAST."  Andrew finally joins us for a proper full length episode, documenting his origin from middle school heavy metal hesher singing in bands, to his early days DIY screenprinting in a basement, touring extensive...

The doctor is in, please take a seat. We're joined in person by hilarious and universally beloved friend of the show, the wickedly talented vocalist/guitarist of PITY SEX: Dr. Britty Drake. We go into great detail about Britty's expulsion from high school due to a (joke) violent threat on Myspace and the extensive aftermath, her upbringing from young Christian Metalcore fan experimenting with many...

We proudly present our first ever comedian on HardLore, in person in Los Angeles: The great (almost legendary) Shapel Lacey! Lifelong hardcore punk listener, former cheerleading champion, and comedian on the rapid rise who proudly flies the flag for hardcore music every single time he hits the stage.   We learn all about Shapel's origin from being a young Mesa, AZ hardcore kid at the Nile Undergro...

After releasing their 4th EP ("Love Songs") in 6 years via Daze, Brandon joins us to talk about the origin of the band, RBS, his preference for music made after 2008, the SPLASH ZONE, the unexpected growth of Big Boy/what it means for the future of the band and much much more. We had a blast getting inside the mind of one of the most naturally charismatic frontmen in hardcore today. Enjoy. Edited...

HardLore is joined by Jem, Dennis and Josh from SPEED for a full day in Los Angeles, where we hear the story of the band while visiting multiple small businesses owned by people associated with the hardcore community. Modu Coffee, Mills Vintage/Varsity, Little Fish and Going Underground Records are the backdrop to this incredible day where we document SPEED's journey from the beginning, detailing...

The highly requested and anticipated follow-up to our original HardLore 200 Nugget Challenge event episode, this time with our very own Bo Lueders attempting this potentially dangerous, Sodium-Coma inducing endeavor in one sitting. Can he do it? (Even though he never claimed to be able to and REEEEALLLYYYY didn't want to) Thank you to Shattered Realm for the bell. Shot and edited by our main man S...

HardLore (and some special guests) crown the best 1980s hardcore band of all time in our most diabolical bracket tournament episode yet. The best of the best from some of the founding fathers and trailblazers of what we know as hardcore today... This was brutal, sorry. If you are a touring musicians or crew, check out the SIGHT FOR SOUND program by Neven Eyewear to get FREE prescription glasses an...

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...