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.

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HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.

Shot, Mixed & Edited by ⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠
Title sequence by ⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠

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00:00:00 - Start
00:01:49 - Andrew Kline
00:09:34 - Finding Hardcore
00:19:57 - The Long, Beautiful Story of How Strife Begins
00:32:13 - xStand As Onex
00:42:20 - The Early Days of Strife
00:53:51 - Plan X Records & Guilty Party
00:56:25 - Victory Records & The Only The Strong Compilation
01:03:22 - ONE TRUTH
01:09:46 - Touring Relentlessly & Sick of it All
01:31:01 - Strife As A Career & The Birth of Today's Hardcore Economy
01:45:19 - Gearing Up for In This Defiance & Meeting Sepultura
01:56:41 - IN THIS DEFIANCE
02:01:09 - Blistered
02:15:09 - Strife Breaking Edge and Breaking Hearts
02:25:27 - In This Defiance & It's Impact on Victory
02:33:34 - Touring Killed Strife
02:40:02 - Bringing Back Strife (Angermeans)
03:03:11 - Rapid Fire: Strife Edition
03:08:17 - 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.
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HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.
Shot, edited and mixed by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠⁠⁠
Title sequence by ⁠⁠⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠⁠⁠
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00:00 - Start
02:20 - Honorable Mentions
16:57 - 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 List
30:39 - Number 6: Vinnie Stigma (Agnostic Front)
34:49 - Number 5: HardLore Jeopardy
39:00 - 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.

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HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy.
Shot, edited and mixed by ⁠⁠⁠Steven Grise⁠⁠⁠
Title sequence by ⁠⁠⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠⁠⁠
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00:00:00 - Start
00:01:51 - The Chaos Begins...
00:02:37 - Deftones vs. Ween
00:04:06 - Snapcase vs. Gallows
00:05:59 - Haywire vs. Title Fight
00:07:01 - Converge vs. Fall Out Boy
00:08:09 - Drug Church vs. Blacklisted
00:09:14 - Black Breath vs. Propaghandi
00:10:48 - Arkangel vs. Bolt Thrower
00:12:09 - The Acacia Strain vs. Poison Idea
00:13:13 - 7A7P vs. Mastodon
00:14:07 - The Cure vs. Paramore
00:16:11 - ETID vs. Meshuggah
00:19:38 - Section 8 vs. Bad Religion
00:20:41 - Power Trip vs. Neglect
00:22:22 - AFI vs. Death
00:24:26 - Lifetime vs. Jimmy Eat World
00:25:21 - Refused vs. Weird Al Yankovich
00:27:10 - Steeley Dan vs. Candlemass
00:28:15 - The Animals vs. On Broken Wings
00:30:35 - Alice In Chains vs. Eighteen Visions
00:32:16 - Alkaline Trio vs. Primus
00:34:13 - Tool vs. Poison The Well
00:36:29 - Candiria vs. Fight Everyone
00:37:24 - Skinless vs. The Rival Mob
00:39:11 - Mindsnare vs. Oasis
00:40:10 - Thrice vs. NOFX
00:41:35 - Rush vs. Hum
00:43:19 - Dillinger Escape Plan vs. Shai Hulud
00:43:26 - 1975 vs. The Smiths
00:45:19 - Mills Vintage vs. Timeless Coffee
00:47:24 - Tragedy vs. Neurosis
00:48:36 - The Beatles vs. 108
00:49:24 - Thin Lizzy vs. Botch
00:50:31 - Glassjaw vs. Nile
00:53:30 - Ween vs. Snapcase
00:54:03 - Title Fight vs. Converge
00:55:35 - Black Breath vs. Blacklisted
00:57:55 - Bolt Thrower vs. Poison Idea
01:01:13 - Mastodon vs. The Cure
01:01:25 - ETID vs. Bad Religion
01:02:32 - Neglect vs. AFI
01:03:17 - Jimmy Eat World vs. Weird Al
01:04:06 - Candlemass vs. The Animals
01:04:52 - Alice in Chains vs. Primus
01:06:12 - Tool vs. Candiria
01:07:11 - NOFX vs. Hum
01:07:27 - Dillinger Escape Plan vs. The Smiths
01:07:33 - Neurosis vs. The Beatles
01:08:39 - Glassjaw vs. Thin Lizzy
01:09:44 - Ween vs. Converge
01:10:06 - Black Breath vs. Poison Idea
01:10:30 - The Cure vs. Bad Religion
01:11:25 - AFI vs. Jimmy Eat World
01:15:12 - Candlemass vs. Alice in Chains
01:16:23 - Candiria vs. Oasis
01:18:29 - Hum vs. The Smiths
01:19:54 - Neurosis vs. Thin Lizzy
01:20:52 - Converge vs. Poison Idea
01:22:17 - The Cure vs. AFI
01:23:46 - Candlemass vs. Oasis
01:26:27 - The Smiths vs. Neurosis
01:30:45 - Converge vs. AFI
01:32:03 - Oasis vs.The Smiths
01:32:26 - 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.
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HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy

Edited by ⁠Steven Grise⁠
Title sequence by ⁠Nicholas Marzluf⁠

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00:00:00 - Start
00:02:00 - CEREMONY
00:04:52 - Rohnert Park, California
00:12:46 - Ross & Anthony's First Bands (Hammer Time)
00:17:31 - The Origin of Ceremony
00:28:39 - RUINED 7"
00:43:17 - VIOLENCE VIOLENCE
01:01:14 - Pardon This Interruption...
01:03:27 - SCARED PEOPLE EP, Signing to Bridge Nine
01:12:28 - STILL NOTHING MOVES YOU
01:23:15 - ROHNERT PARK
01:38:39 - Rohnert Park Live at the Hollywood Palladium
01:46:14 - Signing to Matador
01:50:43 - The List of Every Ceremony Show Ever
01:53:02 - ZOO
02:10:08 - THE L-SHAPED MAN
02:14:58 - Ross Goes Back To School
02:19:43 - Reception To L-Shaped Man
02:30:21 - Relapse Records & IN THE SPIRIT WORLD NOW
02:39:18 - How Ceremony Handled 2020, Almost Breaking Up
02:43:16 - TELL ME YOUR DREAM (CEREMONY'S BEST RECORD?)
02:58:01 - Misconceptions of Ceremony
03:05:00 - 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!!!
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HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy

Edited by Steven Grise
Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf

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00:00:00 - Start
00:03:27 - Discovering Hardcore & Drumming in '80s NYC
00:11:14 - Finding Straight Edge
00:18:11 - GORILLA BISCUITS
00:23:14 - SIDE BY SIDE
00:33:23 - You're Only Young Once
00:38:46 - The Spirit of 1988
00:43:51 - The Way It Is Compilation / Side By Side Reunion
00:47:17 - Pardon This Interruption...
00:50:14 - PROJECT X
00:58:24 - YOUTH OF TODAY
01:02:39 - We're Not In This Alone
01:13:58 - Youth Crew
01:19:41 - We're Not In This Alone Tour
01:27:27 - Youth of Today Breaking Up
01:28:44 - JUDGE
01:33:01 - The Earliest Version of "Metallic Hardcore"
01:38:51 - Chung King Can Suck It
01:47:16 - Bringin' It Down, There Will Be Quiet, The End of Judge
01:52:12 - Judge Covering Led Zeppelin
01:58:05 - Sammy's First Heartbreaking Edgebreak
02:03:39 - Disengage
02:07:53 - Breaking Edge & SHELTER
02:23:41 - GLASSJAW
02:32:08 - LIMP BIZKIT??? (and RIVAL SCHOOLS)
02:43:26 - The Knicks
02:45:19 - Moshing
02:47:59 - Sammy's Unexpected Influences
02:50:11 - What Recording Represents Sammy the Most?
02:55:44 - Top 4 Hardcore Records
02:59:05 - DRUM TALK