HardLore

No need to have a nervous breakdown, we've finally got the legendary KEITH MORRIS on HardLore, one of the founding fathers of hardcore music. In part 1 of this incredible 4+ hour two-part special, we start at the beginning with Keith's introduction to music (he's a big fan) and deep dive into starting Panic (eventually known as BLACK FLAG) with Greg Ginn, what early punk rock was like in the South Bay and greater LA area in the late 70s, how Black Flag finally became Black Flag, recruiting the rest of the band, the incomparable artistic contributions of the great Raymond Pettibon, recording NERVOUS BREAKDOWN (and re-recording most of it with Circle Jerks), why and how he ultimately left the band, and so much more... Thanks to my incredible co-host Anthony Anzaldo of Ceremony for the fantastic assist and great questions/insight as always. Next week we pick up right where we leave off, with the beginning of the Circle Jerks... Grab a copy of Circle Jerks - Revenge of Nervous Breakdown, their first recording in 30 years, while you still can: https://linktr.ee/circlejerks _________ 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 - Start 00:01:47 - Keith Morris 00:08:46 - Keith Loves Music 00:19:53 - Meeting Greg Ginn (Keith Loves Music Cont.) 00:30:40 - Panic Forming (Black Flag) and the MANY Early Members 00:43:46 - Becoming a REAL Band (Chuck The Duke) 00:46:59 - Robo, Cocaine & Punk Developing in Real Time 00:58:29 - Black Flag Becoming Black Flag 01:05:05 - Nervous Breakdown 01:09:35 - Keith Leaving Black Flag 01:12:12 - The Public's Response to Nervous Breakdown 01:27:44 - The Black Flag Bars 01:31:55 - SST & It's Residual Effects 01:36:17 - Keith Leaving Black Flag 01:39:59 - Circle Jerks Re-Recording Nervous Breakdown 01:46:40 - Why Depression, Nervous Breakdown, Fix Me & Revenge? 01:49:20 - Henry Rollins Black Flag 01:53:14 - Everything Went Black, The Germs, Darby Crash 01:57:03 - Have Keith & Greg Reconnected?

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 Grise⁠⁠ Title 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 - 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. __________ 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 - 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. __________ 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 - 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. ___________ HardLore: A Knotfest Series, fueled by Monster Energy Edited 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 - 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