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