With their ‘Cruelty in the East Coast’ headline tour dates kicking off this week, frontman and visionary mastermind Hayden Oakley dropped by the studio to chat about all things Alera.

Hayden digs into the great ‘poser screamo versus post-hardcore’ debate, his decision to put the project on hiatus (and why that immediately had its own expiration date), doppelgänger band monikers, striving to make art in an algorithmic world, and their crazy new split release with Satellites Were Set Alight.

(Keep it a secret 🤫)

Follow Alera, purchase/stream ‘A Selfish Endeavour’, and grab tickets here: https://solo.to/alera 

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Theme/title music: “L​.​S​.​I​.​A.” by Angstbreaker (CC BY-SA 3.0).