HardLore

Mar 12 2025 147 ep. 105 mins 254
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Hardcore + Lore = HardLore. Stories from touring life in the hardcore/punk/metal scenes are discussed within biographical conversations with notable weekly guests. Hosted by Colin Young (Twitching Tongues & God's Hate) & Bo Lueders (Harms Way).

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Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis)

Mar 12 2025 165 mins  
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

HardLore's Favorite Riffs of All Time (With Aaron Osborne)

Mar 05 2025 94 mins  
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 ev

Q&A Special (February 2025 Edition)

Feb 26 2025 130 mins  
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_m

The Best Album Closers of All Time

Feb 19 2025 87 mins  
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

HardLore on the Street at FYA Fest 2025

Feb 12 2025 42 mins  
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

Jamie Pushbutton (Hatebreed, Death Threat)

Feb 05 2025 89 mins  
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 th

MISSING LINK (Mike Ryan & Paul Dove)

Jan 29 2025 107 mins  
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 maki

The 2nd Annual HardLore Awards: Celebrating the Best Releases of 2024

Jan 22 2025 69 mins  
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,

FYA Fest 2025

Jan 15 2025 148 mins  
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.

The Best (AND WORST) Band Names of All time

Jan 08 2025 82 mins  
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.