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 band who's message carried as much meaning and weight as their now-iconic metallic twist on straight edge hardcore.

We discuss Thomas' beginnings as a hardcore kid inspired by frontmen who went above and beyond to use their time on stage as a platform to do good, his bands before Foundation, how writing evolved when Hank joined the band, putting everything they had (at the time) into their one and only LP, and finally going out on their shield with their best record.

This was one of our favorite conversations in the history of the show, enjoy.

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TIMESTAMPS

00:00:00 - Start
00:00:49 - Introduction
00:01:50 - The Reason for the Season
00:08:20 - A realization of becoming a Mt Rushmore Band
00:13:03 - Harms Way x Foundation Tours
00:17:30 - Thomas Pearson, the straight edge speech guy
00:20:01 - Bands Prior To Foundation
00:24:24 - Atlanta before Foundation
00:32:47 - Atlanta Hijinks
00:39:23 - Bad Boy (hood) Stuff
00:50:53 - Pardon This Interuption
00:53:35 - Foundation Lore
00:56:07 - Hang Your Head
01:03:32 - When The Smoke Clears
01:14:45 - Being A Teacher
01:17:49 - Tours between HYH and WTSC
01:22:29 - Tour Incidents...
01:34:13 - Foundation Touring Europe
01:43:32 - Banana microphone incident
01:46:58 - Shopping Cart Incident
01:55:26 - Releasing an Iron Boots Record
02:03:01 - Colin's recent AMC incident
02:12:25 - Foundation playing a show with Millionaires and Brokencyde
02:17:35 - The Breakup of Foundation
02:24:26 - Turncoat
02:29:44 - Ghosts
02:36:02 - Eating on tour with Foundation
02:39:28 - A Speech
02:41:57 - Final Two Assignments