Bio

January 2026 THE HARA released their latest album The Fallout via Mascot Records - home to P.O.D., Dinosaur Pile-Up, Black Stone Cherry, Calva Louise and VOLA. 

THE HARA didn't write this album for the industry. Why would they, when the strange, structureless world they live in has ground them down and made them spiral into doubt? And why would they, when they prize their authenticity as much as they do?
 
The Manchester, UK trio – vocalist Josh Taylor, drummer Jack Kennedy and guitarist Zack Breen - create from a place of undistilled, unadulterated intention. Crucially, those songs all form the building blocks for their supercharged live shows, the environment where they feel like they blossom into their truest, best selves. 
 
When it came to threading the material they'd accumulated for new album The Fallout they knew they wanted to shift into a higher gear, but nothing was forced. "We're constantly trying to grow and develop," notes Zack, "but with this album, it materialized in a really natural way." 

Josh, as a lyricist, finds that he's guided by his subconscious. He sits down, he lets it speak, and once the words are down on paper, he's able to make more sense of what's been going on in the recesses of his mind. "It's never been a thing of 'This is how I'm feeling, I'm going to write about it'. It just happens," he explains. "I find it hard to communicate in everyday life, and I feel writing is my way of expressing what's going on, even if I don't understand it at the time. It's like therapy."

 
Josh details this in the confrontational album opener 'Trophy' – "Society doesn't wanna see water in my eyes/Locking up my secrets to live with the lies, they're all fuckin' lies," he roars. He continues to dig into his soul on 'Easier To Die', which grapples with the feelings of hopelessness that might leach into their view of their band's trajectory, and their general mental health.  ‘Stay’ along with ‘Violence' ft. As December Falls tells the story of a toxic relationship from a more human, realistic perspective.
 
In some ways, this struggle is inextricable from the other primary theme on The Fallout, namely THE HARA's relationship with the music industry. A fickle, shapeshifting world, it gives with one hand and takes with the other, leaving those trying to survive within it in a pattern of constantly chasing highs and watching their mental health crumble when those highs turn to soul-destroying lows. 'Kings' and 'Twist The Arrows' both put the music industry in their crosshairs. 
 
Much of their material was written in their home studio, but then they absconded to the outskirts of Hereford with co-producers Brad Mair and Pete Hutchings (Nothing But Thieves/Royal Blood), recording in multiple stints. 
 
Their raucous genre mash-up of alternative rock and metalcore has seen them pick up support tours with Sum 41, Nothing More, Escape the Fate, Ice Nine Kills, As December Falls as well as exploding across the festival circuit; Download, Slam Dunk, 2000 Trees, Kendal Calling, TRNSMT, Tramlines, Truck, Boomtown Fair, Takedown Festival, Teddy Rocks and an incredible main stage sets at both Reading and Leeds Festival, along with heroics at Rock For People and Mighty Sounds festival (Czech Republic) – as well as sold-out headline shows across Europe and the UK.

THE HARA's dauntless new chapter is the most self-assured they've ever been. Despite the pressure, toxicity and self-doubt fired at them from all angles, they've used the pressure to create diamonds. Most importantly, through all of this, they've metamorphosed into the greatest version of themselves yet.

The response to The Fallout on release saw them achieve major playlisting across Spotify, Apple, Deezer, Pandora, Amazon, Tidal as well as gaining support from BBC Radio 1 Introducing, Kerrang! Radio, Metal Hammer, Kerrang! Magazine, SXM Octane, front cover features on Black Velvet, ASBO magazine and more. 
 
Their journey has been one of finding themselves and it’s a road that’s taken them through 2023’s debut album Survival Mode and a string of EP’s to reach this moment on The Fallout. "This album is probably the purest, rawest version of us," asserts Josh. "Musically, lyrically, everything feels the most authentic we've been. This is really who we are.”

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