Bo Lueders, Hurt’s Method Guitarist and HardLore Podcast Host, Dies at 38

Bo Lueders, the guitarist in hardcore band Hurt’s Method and co-host of the favored HardLore podcast, has died. The band and podcast introduced the information on Instagram yesterday (April 2), sharing assets for these dwelling with despair and writing, “He shall be remembered for his unwavering empathy and compassion for his family and friends and his magnetic, inimitable presence on and off the stage.” Lueders was 38 years outdated.

Lueders grew up within the Chicago metropolitan space, going to high school in Roselle, the place he met Hurt’s Method drummer Christopher Mills. Having discovered guitar at age 10, Lueders rapidly turned a hardcore aficionado (through Blink-182 and NOFX), fashioned a band with Mills known as Double Crossed, and located a house within the Chicago hardcore group, significantly its straight-edge contingent. “I legit by no means had a unfavorable expertise as soon as when stepping into the hardcore scene in Chicago, and that’s one thing I’ll all the time take with me and check out my greatest to emulate,” he informed No Echo final 12 months.

Lueders finally co-founded Few and the Proud, the band that may evolve into Convicted and eventually Hurt’s Method, transitioning from energy violence towards brawl-ready hardcore punk, with numerous strands of metallic thrown in from one album to the following. After a string of albums, EPs, and singles on Organized Crime Information and Closed Casket Actions, the band broke out with a pair of albums for Deathwish Inc., drawing a world fanbase that continued to develop with their newest albums up to now, 2018’s Posthuman and 2023’s Widespread Struggling, for Steel Blade. The identical 12 months because the latter, Lueders joined XweaponX for his first of three releases with the Louisville straight-edge hardcore band.

Following Lueders’ loss of life, Hurt’s Method and HardLore mentioned of their assertion, “We kindly ask for grace and privateness as we navigate this extraordinarily tough time. For these battling despair or urges to self hurt, assistance is all the time obtainable. We’re not on this alone. Suicide and Disaster Lifeline: 988.”

His HardLore co-host Colin Younger added, “This lovely factor we constructed collectively was the best honor of my life, and my solely solace is figuring out that we documented a lifetime of reminiscences, at first to share with the world, however now to look again on and protect your heat, variety soul endlessly. Say hey to Cayle and Cliff Burton for us, and be at liberty to cease by and hang-out me any time. Each track is about you now. Let’s do all of it once more within the subsequent life.”