THE HARA

The Manchester, UK trio – vocalist Josh Taylor, drummer Jack Kennedy and guitarist Zack Breen - create from a place of undistilled, unadulterated intention. They write constantly, compelled to chase the ideas forming in their heads without deadlines hanging over them, just because they love it. 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 - releasing 23 January, 2026 on Mascot Records - 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."

"One of the things we focus on with every single aspect of writing and what we want to put across is that we've written for us," Jack. "We've not written it thinking, 'Let's impress these people' or 'Let's do this because it's a more mainstream approach'. We've written everything because we want it to sound like that."

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."

Their raucous genre mash-up of alternative rock, metalcore, and emo has seen them pick up support tours with Nothing More, Escape the Fate, and Ice Nine Kills while dropping the singles ‘The System ‘, ‘Trophy’ and ‘Stay’. They’ve built a formidable live reputation, leading to them supporting pop-punk giants Sum 41. They've exploded across the festival circuit; Download, Slam Dunk, 2000 Trees, Kendal Calling, TRNSMT, Tramlines, Truck, Boomtown Fair and an incredible main stage set at both Reading and Leeds Festival, along with heroics at Rock For People and Mighty Sounds festival (Czech Republic). They will also join As December Falls on a UK tour before heading on a 10-date co-headline tour of Europe with Call Me Amour throughout Fall 2025.

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.

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.”