Saturated in catharsis and vibrancy, The Hara’s new album, The Fallout, is due on 23rd January 2026, via Mascot Records, and features the band unapologetically wearing their heart on their sleeves.
Ahead of that they’ve issue an official video for their live-wire new single ‘Easier To Die’ and will be joining As December Falls on a UK tour in October and November 2025, before heading on a 10-date co-headline tour of Europe with Call Me Amour in November.
New single ‘Easier to Die’ is about losing hope in the pursuit of success and getting consumed by negative thoughts. It grapples with the feelings of hopelessness that might leach into their view of their band’s trajectory, and their general mental health. “We definitely feel like that quite a bit, trying to break through in music,” said vocalist Josh Taylor.
Previous singles dropped are confrontational album opener ‘Trophy’, ‘Stay’ co-written with close friend Kid Brunswick – and the high-octane The System’.
The Manchester, UK trio – featuring vocalist Josh Taylor, drummer Jack Kennedy and guitarist Zack Breen – develop from a place of undistilled, unadulterated intention and the songs all form the building blocks for their live shows, the environment where they feel like they blossom. For the album recording they absconded to the outskirts of Hereford with co-producers Brad Mair and Pete Hutchings (Nothing But Thieves, Royal Blood).
Their raucous genre mash-up of alternative rock, metalcore, and emo has already seen them grab the live circuit by the scruff of the neck and pick up support slots with pop-punk giants Sum 41, Nothing More, Escape the Fate and Ice Nine Kills while exploding on the festival circuit.
Tayor, 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. 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.”
This struggle is inextricable from the other primary theme on The Fallout, and that’s the band’s relationship with the music industry. 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 – the band are not just surviving, but thriving despite this.
When they were working, they were determined to evolve. “We all listen to heavy music, and it was something we wanted to get into and play with more,” Kennedy explained. “We wanted to not only express the energy and how heavy all this sort of stuff is and how clever it can all be, but our musical ability as well.”
“This album is probably the purest, rawest version of us,” Taylor asserted. “Musically, lyrically, everything feels the most authentic we’ve been. This is really who we are.”
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