Uploaded April 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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ORIGINALLY AIRED: AUG 22, 2024
We are finally joined by Twitching Tongues and God’s Hate bass player/stage mosher extraordinaire Alec Faber, who fronts the newly conceived Holy Blade alongside one of HardLore’s own.

We talk about Alec’s journey from Grand Rapids to California, how playing in Freedom and True Love introduced him to many of his now longtime friends and bandmates around the country, hosting a movie podcast with Colin, (RIP Reel Deal) developing Holy Blade via personal songwriting exercises and much more.

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00:00:00 - Start
00:00:58 - Introduction
00:17:22 - Playing In Bands
00:35:13 - Band Merch
00:41:07 - Touring Post Covid
00:45:20 - Grail Shirt
00:54:18 - Twitching Tongues in Europe
01:10:41 - Candy and Reel Deal
01:15:55 - Movie Snacks
01:21:45 - Pardon This Interuption
01:23:28 - Bits
01:44:58 - Name That Riff
01:58:28 - Birth of Holy Blade
02:15:45 - Q&A