DRAIN & HardLore Behind The Scenes: "...Is Your Friend" Tour 2026
4/16/20261 hr 39 min
A few weeks ago, Bo & I had the special privilege of traveling to Nashville to get an inside look into the making of DRAIN's "...Is Your Friend" U.S. tour with No Pressure, Haywire and Secret World, via our friends at Monster Energy.
This was our first OFFICIAL "assignment" on behalf of Monster since we started working with them officially in January, and it's a bittersweet example of what was to come of this dream partnership. We're so grateful for the memories that this has created since losing our beloved Bohan Lueders, for what has now become his penultimate HardLore episode ever.
We spent several days with the band & their crew made up entirely of hardcore musicians from bands like Rotting Out, Cosmic Joke, One Step Closer and more to give you all an inside look at their gear & production. We hope you enjoy this unique episode that was a first and last for us as a duo, where Bo’s passion unique knowledge and passion for gear was on full display.
Go see them near you soon.
Head to hardloremerch.com to grab a Bo memorial t-shirt for an amazing cause that we can't wait to tell you more about soon...
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00:01:44 - Chapter 1: DRAIN, Before The Storm
00:06:29 - Chapter 2: HardLore Hardware Highlight, Drain's Gear
00:48:25 - Chapter 3: They're The Crew, Meet Drain's Touring Crew
01:17:24 - Chapter 4: Drain & Co.'s Top 4 Hardcore Records
01:22:10 - Chapter 5: Day One of Tour in Dallas Texas
HardLore: A Knotfest Series, Fueled by Monster Energy
Edited by Steven Grise • Title sequence by Nicholas Marzluf
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First 90 secondsColin Young· Host0:00
Hello, welcome, it's Hardlore time. My name is Colin.
Bo Lueders· Host0:03
And I'm Beau And we are here in Nashville, Tennessee with Monster Energy to give you a special inside look at Drain's upcoming Is Your Friend US tour with Haywire and No Pressure.
Colin Young· Host0:16
Come on inside, let's show you.
Bo Lueders· Host0:17
[upbeat rock music] This is a big facility of sorts that's got all kinds of music in it. We've heard tale of... Should we name?
Colin Young· Host0:58
Country music.
Bo Lueders· Host0:59
Country music, some pop stars, some heavy metal, if you will.
Colin Young· Host1:03
Metallica.
Bo Lueders· Host1:04
Metallica.
Colin Young· Host1:04
The fucking lads.
Bo Lueders· Host1:06
Yeah, The Beatles were here.
Colin Young· Host1:08
Yeah. All right, we're here in, uh, room 4D because Drain is a four-dimensional band, of course. We're sick of this three-dimensional crap, you know? [laughs] Hopefully it's open.
Bo Lueders· Host1:19
It's not gonna be.
Colin Young· Host1:20
It's closed.
Bo Lueders· Host1:22
It's closed.
Colin Young· Host1:22
Give us a second.
Unknown speaker1:23
[beep] [rock music]