HardLore

This week we’re joined by Andrew Kline, co-founder and guitarist of one of California hardcore’s most important bands: STRIFE.We dive into the many fateful encounters that had to happen for the band to start in the beginning of the 90s to usher in a new era and new generation of straight edge hardcore. Strife, along with Earth Crisis and Snapcase were eventually considered the original “Victory Records Trinity” and set the standard for what a hardcore band could do worldwide in the mid to late 90s.We break down their entire discography, including their breakout debut One Truth and their decade-defining masterpiece In This Defiance — all the way up until their breakup and eventual return (and misunderstood statement about no longer being straight edge) in the 2000s.An incredibly insightful and fascinating window into what is now an underrated band, but one that has seen what the top of the mountain of hardcore music has to offer.Check out HardLore's very own ⁠PLAN X RECORDS!⁠ A brand new home for straight edge hardcore. Debut release announced on Edge Day. ____________HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.Shot, Mixed & Edited by ⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠Title sequence by ⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠ • Join the ⁠⁠HARDLORE PATREON⁠⁠ to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episode.• Join the ⁠⁠HARDLORE DISCORD⁠⁠.• Get 10% off ⁠⁠GUILTY PARTY⁠⁠ site-wide with code HARDLORE and grab some of our favorite clothing brands of all time.______________00:00:00 - Start00:01:49 - Andrew Kline00:09:34 - Finding Hardcore00:19:57 - The Long, Beautiful Story of How Strife Begins00:32:13 - xStand As Onex00:42:20 - The Early Days of Strife00:53:51 - Plan X Records & Guilty Party00:56:25 - Victory Records & The Only The Strong Compilation01:03:22 - ONE TRUTH01:09:46 - Touring Relentlessly & Sick of it All01:31:01 - Strife As A Career & The Birth of Today's Hardcore Economy01:45:19 - Gearing Up for In This Defiance & Meeting Sepultura01:56:41 - IN THIS DEFIANCE02:01:09 - Blistered02:15:09 - Strife Breaking Edge and Breaking Hearts02:25:27 - In This Defiance & It's Impact on Victory02:33:34 - Touring Killed Strife02:40:02 - Bringing Back Strife (Angermeans)03:03:11 - Rapid Fire: Strife Edition03:08:17 - Top 4 Hardcore Records

Hello welcome! Decided to take a minute this week to reflect on the last 4 and a half years of the show and do a little deep dive into what are, in my opinion, our top 10 most important episodes. "Important" meaning episodes that we talked about often that felt like game changers in different ways: Creative growth, audience growth, and personal growth.I'm sure many will feel different and have their own picks, but these are the ones that I believe Bo and I would both would have picked. Hope you enjoy this unique solo deep dive before we post back to back to back episodes of pure HEAT coming up.__________HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.Shot, edited and mixed by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠⁠⁠ Title sequence by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠⁠⁠ • Join the ⁠⁠⁠⁠HARDLORE PATREON⁠⁠⁠⁠ to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes• Join the ⁠⁠⁠⁠HARDLORE DISCORD⁠⁠⁠⁠ __________00:00 - Start02:20 - Honorable Mentions16:57 - Number 10: HauntLore Salem (With Kurt Ballou)19:53 - Number 9: Justice Tripp (Trapped Under Ice/Angel Du$t)23:09 - Number 8: Bryan Garris (Knocked Loose)26:16 - Number 7: Fast Food Tier List30:39 - Number 6: Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front)34:49 - Number 5: HardLore Jeopardy39:00 - Number 4: Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed)41:07 - Number 3: Parris Mayhew (Cro-Mags)46:21 - Number 2: Davey Havok (AFI)51:57 - Number 1...

Let the chaos begin... In March of this year, Bo and I had an idea to let the viewers decide on our next bracket episode (since you're never happy with the bands we pick) and this was the result. The top 64 bands, as voted by YOU! Every matchup was random in our first ever truly unpredictable live tournament challenge.I'm joined by Joey Chiaramonte from Koyo, alongside Alec Faber & Taylor Young from Twitching Tongues/God's Hate to determine a winner in real time in our first ever in-person bracket episode.__________HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.Shot, edited and mixed by ⁠⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠⁠ Title sequence by ⁠⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠⁠ • Join the ⁠⁠⁠HARDLORE PATREON⁠⁠⁠ to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes• Join the ⁠⁠⁠HARDLORE DISCORD⁠⁠⁠ • Get 15% off ⁠⁠TIMELESS COFFEE⁠⁠ site-wide and grab a bag of my favorite beans and the best vegan cookies I’ve ever had• Get 10% off ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MILLS VINTAGE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ site-wide with code HARDLORE._________00:00:00 - Start00:01:51 - The Chaos Begins...00:02:37 - Deftones vs. Ween00:04:06 - Snapcase vs. Gallows00:05:59 - Haywire vs. Title Fight00:07:01 - Converge vs. Fall Out Boy00:08:09 - Drug Church vs. Blacklisted00:09:14 - Black Breath vs. Propaghandi00:10:48 - Arkangel vs. Bolt Thrower00:12:09 - The Acacia Strain vs. Poison Idea00:13:13 - 7A7P vs. Mastodon00:14:07 - The Cure vs. Paramore00:16:11 - ETID vs. Meshuggah00:19:38 - Section 8 vs. Bad Religion00:20:41 - Power Trip vs. Neglect00:22:22 - AFI vs. Death00:24:26 - Lifetime vs. Jimmy Eat World00:25:21 - Refused vs. Weird Al Yankovich00:27:10 - Steeley Dan vs. Candlemass00:28:15 - The Animals vs. On Broken Wings00:30:35 - Alice In Chains vs. Eighteen Visions00:32:16 - Alkaline Trio vs. Primus00:34:13 - Tool vs. Poison The Well00:36:29 - Candiria vs. Fight Everyone00:37:24 - Skinless vs. The Rival Mob00:39:11 - Mindsnare vs. Oasis00:40:10 - Thrice vs. NOFX00:41:35 - Rush vs. Hum00:43:19 - Dillinger Escape Plan vs. Shai Hulud00:43:26 - 1975 vs. The Smiths00:45:19 - Mills Vintage vs. Timeless Coffee00:47:24 - Tragedy vs. Neurosis00:48:36 - The Beatles vs. 10800:49:24 - Thin Lizzy vs. Botch00:50:31 - Glassjaw vs. Nile00:53:30 - Ween vs. Snapcase00:54:03 - Title Fight vs. Converge00:55:35 - Black Breath vs. Blacklisted00:57:55 - Bolt Thrower vs. Poison Idea01:01:13 - Mastodon vs. The Cure01:01:25 - ETID vs. Bad Religion01:02:32 - Neglect vs. AFI01:03:17 - Jimmy Eat World vs. Weird Al01:04:06 - Candlemass vs. The Animals01:04:52 - Alice in Chains vs. Primus01:06:12 - Tool vs. Candiria01:07:11 - NOFX vs. Hum01:07:27 - Dillinger Escape Plan vs. The Smiths01:07:33 - Neurosis vs. The Beatles01:08:39 - Glassjaw vs. Thin Lizzy01:09:44 - Ween vs. Converge01:10:06 - Black Breath vs. Poison Idea01:10:30 - The Cure vs. Bad Religion01:11:25 - AFI vs. Jimmy Eat World01:15:12 - Candlemass vs. Alice in Chains01:16:23 - Candiria vs. Oasis01:18:29 - Hum vs. The Smiths01:19:54 - Neurosis vs. Thin Lizzy01:20:52 - Converge vs. Poison Idea01:22:17 - The Cure vs. AFI01:23:46 - Candlemass vs. Oasis01:26:27 - The Smiths vs. Neurosis01:30:45 - Converge vs. AFI01:32:03 - Oasis vs.The Smiths01:32:26 - FINALS

This week we're joined by vocalist Ross Farrar & guitarist Anthony Anzaldo of the great CEREMONY...From childhood friends to lifelong bandmates, we learn all about their individual introductions to punk and hardcore music and how that eventually lead to the fateful formation of now legendary bay area hardcore band, Ceremony.From the aggressive hardcore origins of their demo, first 7", and first 2 LPs, to their first big evolution and breakout Rohnert Park, all the way to their newest (and possibly best) album Tell Me Your Dream, we discuss everything in between, and the many "Gauntlets" in between that got us here.A thoroughly fun, fascinating inside look at what is truly one of the defining underground bands of the last 20+ years. Enjoy this monumental 3 hour chat.___________ HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster EnergyEdited by ⁠Steven Grise⁠ Title sequence by ⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠• Join the ⁠HARDLORE PATREON⁠ to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes!• Join the ⁠HARDLORE DISCORD⁠! • HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records ⁠store• Get your passes & tickets to AFTERSHOCK FEST to see the craziest lineup to maybe ever hit Sacramento!• ​Get 10% off ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠MILLS VINTAGE⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ site-wide with code HARDLORE.____________00:00:00 - Start00:02:00 - CEREMONY00:04:52 - Rohnert Park, California00:12:46 - Ross & Anthony's First Bands (Hammer Time)00:17:31 - The Origin of Ceremony00:28:39 - RUINED 7"00:43:17 - VIOLENCE VIOLENCE01:01:14 - Pardon This Interruption...01:03:27 - SCARED PEOPLE EP, Signing to Bridge Nine01:12:28 - STILL NOTHING MOVES YOU01:23:15 - ROHNERT PARK01:38:39 - Rohnert Park Live at the Hollywood Palladium01:46:14 - Signing to Matador01:50:43 - The List of Every Ceremony Show Ever01:53:02 - ZOO02:10:08 - THE L-SHAPED MAN02:14:58 - Ross Goes Back To School02:19:43 - Reception To L-Shaped Man02:30:21 - Relapse Records & IN THE SPIRIT WORLD NOW02:39:18 - How Ceremony Handled 2020, Almost Breaking Up02:43:16 - TELL ME YOUR DREAM (CEREMONY'S BEST RECORD?)02:58:01 - Misconceptions of Ceremony03:05:00 - Top 4 Hardcore Records

This is easily one of the best conversations to ever happen on this show.We stopped by Trust Records HQ for this incredible chat the great Sammy Siegler, one of hardcore's most prolific drummers to ever grace the throne.We dive into Sammy's origin as the Godfather of Open Handed Lefty drummers in hardcore, his brief stint in Gorilla Biscuits, joining Side By Side at 11-12 years old, the Project X 7", joining Youth of Today as a longtime fan of the band, ALL things Judge, Chung King and Bringin' It Down and his later work in CIV, Rival Schools, Glassjaw and somehow Limp Bizkit of all things.We're appropriately joined by my main man Mike Cesario of Twitching Tongues, Disgrace, Pity Sex, Forced Order and more to round out this mini panel of unique drummers.Thanks to Sammy for joining us and sharing so much lore about so many great bands and records. Enjoy!!!__________HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster EnergyEdited by Steven Grise Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf• Join the HARDLORE PATREON to watch every single weekly episode early and ad-free, alongside exclusive monthly episodes!• Join the HARDLORE DISCORD! • HardLore Official Website/HardLore Records store• Get 15% off the custom drum kit of your dreams with SJC DRUMS!• Visit TRUST RECORDS to pick up reissues and merch from countless legendary hardcore bands00:00:00 - Start00:03:27 - Discovering Hardcore & Drumming in '80s NYC00:11:14 - Finding Straight Edge00:18:11 - GORILLA BISCUITS00:23:14 - SIDE BY SIDE00:33:23 - You're Only Young Once00:38:46 - The Spirit of 198800:43:51 - The Way It Is Compilation / Side By Side Reunion00:47:17 - Pardon This Interruption...00:50:14 - PROJECT X00:58:24 - YOUTH OF TODAY01:02:39 - We're Not In This Alone01:13:58 - Youth Crew01:19:41 - We're Not In This Alone Tour01:27:27 - Youth of Today Breaking Up01:28:44 - JUDGE01:33:01 - The Earliest Version of "Metallic Hardcore"01:38:51 - Chung King Can Suck It01:47:16 - Bringin' It Down, There Will Be Quiet, The End of Judge01:52:12 - Judge Covering Led Zeppelin01:58:05 - Sammy's First Heartbreaking Edgebreak02:03:39 - Disengage02:07:53 - Breaking Edge & SHELTER02:23:41 - GLASSJAW02:32:08 - LIMP BIZKIT??? (and RIVAL SCHOOLS)02:43:26 - The Knicks02:45:19 - Moshing02:47:59 - Sammy's Unexpected Influences02:50:11 - What Recording Represents Sammy the Most?02:55:44 - Top 4 Hardcore Records02:59:05 - DRUM TALK