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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 kid, to discovering hardcore in Leeds' vibrant hardcore scene, to taking the natural next step to singing for multiple bands.
...Now she's on the cover of Kerrang, they've played Outbreak Fest multiple times, and Metal Hammer called Pest Control "The UK's most exciting new band."
We're proud to welcome Leah to the show to tell her story in this fantastic conversation.
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00:00:00 - Start
00:00:53 - Introduction
00:03:40 - Cover of Kerrang
00:09:33 - Growing up in Leeds and discovering Hardcore
00:11:30 - Expansive knowledge of Lyrics
00:13:52 - From metalcore, to emo, to hardcore
00:18:52 - Grandma Helen and her... Tank?
00:21:09 - Then and Now with Hardcore in Leeds
00:26:31 - Band Before Pest Control
00:28:04 - Haters
00:30:28 - Reality TV Shows
00:36:06 - Pest Control
00:37:57 - Created during the pandemic
00:40:50 - Putting the Demo Together
00:43:17 - Guitar influences
00:45:54 - Starting to Tour
00:48:16 - Touring in the mainland and the UK
00:50:10 - Tales from Tour
00:52:39 - Writing after the demo
00:56:14 - First LP and Outbreak Fest
00:58:58 - Playing Outbreak again
01:03:28 - Touring the United States
01:05:13 - Pardon This Interuption
01:08:04 - Bingo grand prize
01:11:44 - Being in a childrens game show
01:15:46 - Year of the Pest
01:18:10 - What does P in PMC stand for?
01:24:03 - Upcoming tour with Harms Way
01:27:07 - Smallest City Played
01:29:31 - Pub Visits
01:30:35 - Favorite Pest Control Tour Ever
01:33:30 - How Many Sams do you know
01:34:27 - Expectations and Plans for pest Control
01:36:25 - Top 4 Hardcore Records
01:38:34 - Do you Believe In Ghosts?
01:45:58 - Difference between foods
01:48:10 - Homeland food or mainland food?
01:49:22 - Food in America
01:51:01 - Pest Controls Favorite Fast Food
01:52:21 - A big pet peeve
01:54:03 - Who Do You Do?
01:57:38 - Closing Remarks
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1:58:54
Akil Godsey (End It)
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 - Start
00:00:49 - Introduction
00:04:33 - Moral Code
00:07:34 - The Orgin of Akil
00:09:13 - Shows attended when finding hardcore
00:12:09 - Connecting with the TUI Demo
00:16:20 - Picking up Dead Bodies
00:20:36 - Becoming Friends with Ray from End It
00:22:34 - End it and Flatspot
00:24:21 - Debut Record and working with flatspot
00:26:06 - First year as a Band
00:27:08 - Initial Expectations for End It
00:29:34 - Singing Oldies
00:32:06 - Thoughts on Touring
00:32:37 - Band Dynamic on Tour
00:34:26 - Are You A Hater?
00:37:14 - What Do You Hate The Most?
00:38:45 - Something That You Fuck With
00:42:33 - Balancing Fatherhood and Touring
00:44:08 - One Way Track
00:47:17 - Touring on One Way Track
00:48:16 - Unpleasant Living
00:50:01 - Lyric changes?
00:52:29 - Favorite Tour Yet
01:00:01 - Pardon This Interuption
01:04:38 - Stand Up
01:08:24 - Looking back on important moments
01:10:00 - What to expect with this new LP?
01:12:13 - Experience with Touring in Europe
01:15:50 - Do You Believe in Ghosts?
01:21:01 - The Food Spot That Unites the Band
01:24:36 - Who Do You Do?
01:26:08 - Top 4 Favorite Hardcore Records
01:28:33 - Baltimore Top 4
01:30:32 - Discord Q&A
01:30:39 - Best Otto Bar Memory
01:33:19 - The whole Toilet?
01:34:57 - Night Shift Party Weekend
01:35:15 - Akil and Stavvy Collab when
01:37:23 - Favorite Records for Long Drives
01:38:11 - Influences For the New Record
01:39:47 - What Is Your Favorite Movie
01:40:13 - Most personal rewarding accomplishment
01:42:33 - Worst Job Ever
01:44:34 - Favorite pre set song to sing
01:45:52 - First Taste of Punk rock
01:47:34 - Favorite Part about Baltimore to experience
01:48:25 - When did your tolerance for BS hit zero
01:51:19 - First thing to do once the government collapses
01:52:13 - How is tattoing coming along?
01:52:40 - Favorite Comedian at the moment?
01:53:21 - Whats up with up the bluncks?
01:53:49 - Mount Rushmoore of ska
01:55:06 - Getting Striking Distance for the release
With multiple EPs and numerous tours in the US and Europe under their belt, End It is approaching their first ever LP via day one collaborators Flatspot Records that will surely leave it's stamp on hardcore for years to come, and we were honored to be joined by Akil for this hilarious, insightful and authentic look into a modern legend in the making.
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2:01:29
12 Hits From Hell: Inside The Lost MISFITS Album
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 Misfits discography.
Enter then lower level Caroline employee Tom Bejgrowicz, who’s intimate knowledge and passion for The Misfits landed him the nearly impossible task of creating the formal releases for the Misfits’ intended debut LP “Static Age”, their legendary discography Coffin Boxset, and eventually their even more legendary lost 2nd LP, “12 Hits From Hell”… Which was cancelled right before its official release.
We were lucky enough to have Tom personally tell us the incredible story of why the band came together to stop “12 Hits” from officially releasing.. Enjoy.
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00:00:00 - Start
00:04:33 - Meeting the Misfits, and beginning to work with them
00:23:09 - Different lyrics...
00:28:18 - Is there any more unreleased Misfits material?
00:31:18 - Making Fixes
00:33:59 - What came first? Coffin Box or Static Age
00:35:18 - Booklet Layout
00:36:19 - Static Age
00:38:21 - Was this a success?
00:43:32 - Conversations with Glenn regarding Static Age
00:45:56 - 12 Hits from Hell
00:55:16 - Line up changes
01:00:23 - Pardon This Interruption..
01:04:04 - Who helped with releasing 12 Hits?
01:14:54 - Not Agreeing with liner information
01:22:41 - How long did the development of this take?
01:25:08 - Have you Spoken to Bobby?
01:40:34 - Do you feel the same?
01:46:20 - Favorite Misfits Song
01:48:40 - Are You personally proud?
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1:55:20
Jonah Jenkins (Only Living Witness)
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 time that would become cult classics and contribute to changing the landscape of hardcore music forever.
These are personal favorites for the show (and inspired the sound AND name of Twitching Tongues) and we are confident you will walk away from this episode with a new perspective on a band you love, or are new appreciation for one you're just now discovering.
Being on the forefront of integrating clean vocals and hardcore, their mark on aggressive music is present to this day.
With their debut LP "Prone Mortal Form" just passing it's 30th anniversary, it's finally getting a proper standalone re-release via Man Alive records, as well as their follow up "Innocents" on vinyl for the very first time.
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00:00:00 - Start
00:01:07 - Introduction
00:04:24 - Finding Hardcore
00:08:29 - First Instrument
00:10:18 - First Band
00:13:41 - Befriending Eric and Kevin
00:21:08 - Contemporaries
00:24:30 - Complex Man
00:28:11 - Writing Styles
00:31:50 - Signing To Century Media
00:34:02 - Creation of Prone Mortal Form
00:43:06 - Darkly
00:46:05 - December
00:46:42 - Touring on the record and Century Media's reaction
00:50:53 - Tour Stories from Leeway tour
00:53:44 - Innocents
00:59:07 - Eric's passing
01:00:06 - Century Media's impresseion of Innocents
01:01:52 - Hank Crane
01:04:28 - Reflecting back now and wishing for more
01:08:16 - Bands after Only Living Witness
01:13:43 - Band most fond of years later
01:16:47 - History of Raw Radar War
01:17:47 - Inspiration by new bands to create music
01:18:58 - Marker 33
01:21:50 - Food Guy
01:24:18 - Fast Food
01:27:27 - Top 4 Hardcore Records
01:28:59 - Singing on a 36 Crazy Fists song
01:29:47 - The Last Boston Hardcore show attended
01:32:35 - What Jonah is listening to these days
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1:35:52
Halloween HardLore: Touring With Hatebreed / Making Twitchfits Vol. 2
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/rollout of Twitching Tongues newest Misfits tribute record, Twitchfits Vol. 2.
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00:00:00 - Start
00:00:49 - Introduction
00:03:43 - Harms Way Tour Recap
00:09:49 - Boston
00:12:01 - Canada
00:14:24 - Interactions with Carcass
00:19:01 - First Time Touring With Hatebreed
00:20:29 - Tour makes it back into America
00:21:14 - Difficult Days
00:29:20 - Minneapolis
00:30:26 - Chicago
00:30:55 - Highlights
00:31:26 - Trains, man
00:32:13 - Oklahoma Onion Burger
00:34:45 - Bo's New Favorite Bev
00:36:54 - San Antonio
00:40:33 - The Calamity Starts
00:45:22 - Portland
00:45:59 - The Puke Story
00:49:36 - Harms Way 3 Year Curse
00:52:23 - Salt Lake City
00:53:26 - Things Start to Get Difficult
00:54:37 - Kansas City
00:55:47 - Getting To Play With Hatebreed
00:58:09 - Hatebreed Cues
01:05:05 - Pardon This Interuption
01:09:38 - Twitchfits
01:17:02 - The Twitchfits Gig
01:21:38 - Personal Favorite on Vol. 2
01:24:36 - Trivia for Colin
01:26:09 - Halloween
01:28:48 - Discord Q&A
01:28:54 - Favorite Lesser Known Horror Movie
01:29:35 - Favorite Halloween Activity as an Adult
01:31:29 - Worst Halloween Candy
01:32:37 - Favorite halloween Costume or memory
01:33:32 - Favorite movies to watch on Halloween
01:35:48 - Other Graves Songs
01:37:03 - Scariest Concept for a Horror Film
01:37:44 - Favorite "Wo oh" in misfits songs
01:38:55 - Top Horror Movies of 2024
01:39:25 - How Do You Cope
01:40:07 - Quad Cortex
01:42:33 - #1 Costume To Make With a Team
01:43:37 - Hatebreed Track that Never Gets Old Live
01:44:10 - Favorite Scary Movie
01:46:20 - Twitchfits Backups
01:48:19 - Favorite Bad Horror Movie
01:48:49 - Twitchfits in New Jersey?
01:48:58 - Favorite part of 60's Culture
01:49:56 - Process of Designing Twitchfits Merch
01:50:56 - Best Halloween Shenanigans Story
01:51:16 - When Did Casey Move To a 5 String?
01:51:54 - Whos winning in this fight?
01:52:57 - HW 2
01:54:50 - If You were a vampire and could turn into a bat...
01:55:21 - What would your group costume be?
01:56:08 - Worst Thing You've Eaten on Tour
01:57:08 - Singing Style for Misfits Songs
01:58:39 - Scariest Moment on Tour
01:59:17 - Favorite Costumes from Twitchfits Show
02:02:36 - Sppokiest thing to happen on tour
02:03:20 - Spookiest Things in your own House
02:03:53 - Horrorpunk
02:04:59 - How Much Did You Practice for TwitchFits 2
02:06:26 - Best Part of making a song for VHS
02:06:58 - TwitchFits Adding to Writing Influence
02:07:12 - How Tall Are You?
02:08:02 - Whos is the Colin and Bo of your bands?
02:08:29 - Thoughts on Nightmare Before Christmas
02:09:41 - Master Killer of Horror Movies
Hardcore + Lore = HardLore. Chaotic stories from touring life in the hardcore/punk/metal scenes are discussed with notable weekly guests and hosts Colin Young (God's Hate) & Bo Lueders (Harms Way).