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 a…

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 thi…

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…

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,…

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 we…

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…

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 f…

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://patreo…

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 s…

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…

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: h…

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 metho…

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 ki…

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 - Start00:00:49 - Introduction00:04:33 - Moral Cod…

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 Misfit…

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 tim…

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/ro…

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 …

Your favorite, our favorite, everybody's favorite... Please enjoy this newest Q&A special where we answered questions submitted by the HardLore Discord.Welcome FIRESTARTER to HardLore Records, and stream the new single "Tear Stained Youth", featuring Mark Porter from Floorpunch.Don't miss out on the next one, join the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://disc…

The long awaited full length HardLore episode with the frontman of, in our opinion, the greatest and most consistent hardcore band ever: SCOTT VOGEL of TERROR.In an episode that lives up to every bit of anticipation and excitement that we had, we find out all about Scott's upbringing from childhood to find hardcore, how his early bands started, (an…

We officially welcome the fall/winter seasons (the best time of year) with an official tribute to our favorite COLD WEATHER albums of all time. Hardcore, metal, industrial, electronic, you name it...Some things are just best served cold.Listen to the official companion playlist for this episode HERE: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3w6sZh4B2NCPPw…

This week's HardLore features special guest and co-founder of the greatest hardcore band in modern history: Sam Trapkin of Trapped Under Ice.We discuss Sam finding hardcore music AFTER joining TUI, growing up in and around Baltimore, moshing hard, his lifelong connection with Hatebreed, TUI's stretch of world domination as a tour band, tidbits thro…

We take a small break from music to have our very own Professor Bo Lueders take time out of his busy schedule to answer some in-depth historical questions. He is right about 30% of the time, let's see if this week he can hit 40%.HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly …

Yes you read that title correctly. We ranked every rock band ever (with a few exceptions) in order. It took us 3 hours and damn near killed us, but we did it. Who is the GOAT? Who is amazing/great? Who sucks?Find out now!HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes…

One of the most consistently requested guest since the beginning of HardLore: THOMAS PEARSON, vocalist of Atlanta's FOUNDATION finally joins us for an epic 3-hour episode documenting Foundation's beginning, ending, and everything in between.Since their breakup in 2016, Atlanta's FOUNDATION has become a mythical band to new fans of hardcore music, a…

Colin and Bo list their favorite opening tracks in hardcore music. Whether it’s for an LP, an EP or a split, the first song on a record sets the tone for what you can expect from a band and often times can end up defining their entire career. They are the ultimate statement piece for what you’re about to hear, so we’ve paid tribute to some of the g…

We are finally joined by Twitching Tongues and God’s Hate bass player/stage mosher extraordinaire Alec Faber, who fronts the newly conceived Holy Blade alongside one of HardLore’s own.We talk about Alec’s journey from Grand Rapids to California, how playing in Freedom and True Love introduced him to many of his now longtime friends and bandmates ar…

We are joined live at HardLore HQ by Braxton Marcellous, the charismatic, multi-talented guitar player of generational standouts ZULU. Braxton is not only wildly magnetic and unforgettable as a stage performer, but truly one of the all time greats one on one.ZULU is a band full of hardcore lifers proudly carrying the torch, and are an amazing examp…

The long awaited day has arrived... HardLore conducts a live tournament bracket to determine the hardest HARDCORE band of all time in a stacked tournament of bands hand-picked by us, in brackets set completely randomly... We swear.We stuck to MUSICAL HARDNESS as our main criteria, but there are a few examples when separating the art and the artist …

...And we're back! HardLore returns for our first proper long form sit-down episode in over a month with an episode 2.5 hour recap of Bo's recent European excursion with Harms Way, as well as over an hour of answering your questions.HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive mont…

HardLore was joined for our first ever interview with a filmmaker by GREEN ROOM writer and director Jeremy Saulnier, who many don't know is a Virginia/DC hardcore OG.As the now cult classic film approaches its historic 10th anniversary, we moderated a Q&A at a sold out screening of the 2015 punk horror phenomenon at Brain Dead Studios.So much of th…

HardLore is joined by Sound & Fury co-promoters Martín Stewart (Terror, God’s Hate) and Madison Woodward (Fury) to recap this year’s incredible iteration of the USA’s biggest hardcore festival. HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes: https://patreon.com/hardl…

Welcome to the first ever HardLore Family Feud!We celebrated the beginning of Sound & Fury week 2024 with a live, sold out show at Brain Dead Studios in Los Angeles. Team Twitching Tongues (Taylor Young, Alec Faber & Mike Cesario) went head to head against team Sound & Fury (Martin Stewart & Madison Woodward) with special guest Anthony Anzaldo from…

HardLore is honored to be joined by the Godfather of hardcore himself: Vinnie Stigma from Agnostic Front.A true pioneer of the genre and a living legend, Vinnie took us around his neighborhood in New York City, including the world famous former home of the legendary venue CBGBs. We learned all about his early days as a punk rocker, making the jump …

Part 2 of our very special New York HardLore series features special guest Tom Sheehan of Indecision/Most Precious Blood. We're in Sunset Park Brooklyn, Tom's childhood stomping grounds (and birthplace of Merauder) at what was formerly known as the Crazy Country Club, the venue where Tom earned his stripes as a young hardcore kid and played his fir…

Fresh off of separate tours supporting two of hardcore's flagship bands, Drain and Kublai Khan - Colin and Bo reconvene to recap the events of the first time both of them have been on tour concurently since the inception of HardLore.Harms Way was part of Kublai Khan's second leg of their recent U.S. tour alongside Pain of Truth, and Twitching Tongu…

Colin and Bo chat with Tied Down Fest founders Jimmy Lawson and Curtis Dalton, Detroit hardcore kids that grew up booking shows, playing in bands, & printing merch who would eventually to bring a 2,000+ attendee hardcore festival to their beloved hometown. The 2024 edition of the festival featured Have Heart, Youth of Today, Drain, Terror and HardL…

HardLore proudly presents the first part of our three-part series shot in a single day all about New York Hardcore, all three of which feature special guest co-host: King Nine vocalist Dan Seely.Part one features Mike Dijan, an absolutely all-time great hardcore guitar player and song writer. We visited his hometown neighborhood in Astoria Queens a…

While HardLore was at LDBBB Fest, we tried something new and challenged some people outside, including a few members of bands and previous guests, to name the bands behind the opening FIRST SECOND of some iconic hardcore songs.How many can you guess right on your first go?HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode ear…

HardLore welcomes back one of the very first guests, Brody King of God's Hate and All Elite Wrestling to deliver his personal, experienced ranking of American Fast Food through the eyes of a professional wrestler who travels more than any band.Even though food is the main topic, we still found a way to fill this episode with personal lore and share…

HardLore Presents our official tournament bracket to determine the heaviest band OF ALL TIME.We methodically argued to find one winner amongst the following bands:Obituary, Slayer, Napalm Death, Bolt Thrower, Sleep, Crowbar, All Out War, Neurosis, Metallica, Black Sabbath, Suffocation, Suffocation, Cannibal Corpse, Conan, Dying Fetus, Disembodied, …

Colin and Bo celebrate their momentous 100th episode with a massive HardLore Q&A, answering questions sent by the viewers.We can't thank you enough for the past 100 episodes, we wouldn't have made it past the few handful without your support. Here's to a million more.HardLore is now on Patreon! Join now to watch every single weekly episode early an…

This week in a very special episode, we are joined by SeeYouSpaceCowboy... vocalist Connie Sgarbossa live and in-person at HardLore HQ, for a highly anticipated instant classic episode of HardLore. We discuss Connie's path from Che Cafe volunteer to spinkicking screamo pioneer, the personal experience of her transition, her early bands and SeeYouSp…

Colin and Bo chat with Spencer Hazard, guitar player and founder of Full of Hell.15 years and 31 records in, Spencer shares his and the band's story about how a small town Maryland band grinded (no pun intended) to the top of their field in extreme music.An amazing insight into carving your own path in music, making art your own way and the belief …

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 los…

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…

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! Jo…

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/hard…

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.comJoin the HARDLORE DISCORD: https://discord.gg/jA9rppggefThis episode is brought to you b…

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 pla…