Bo Lueders of Harm's Way Passes Away

0:00It's April 3rd, I'm Cory with the story, and this is Music News Today. Music news powered by AI. Bull the waiters, guitars for the hardcore band Harms Way and co-host of the Hard-Lore podcast, passed away at 38 years old. The band and podcast dropped the news on Instagram April 2nd, highlighting his deep compassion for friends and family, plus that electric vibe he brought everywhere, onstage or off. He came up in the Chicago area, hitting school in Rosel, where he linked with Harms Way drummer Christopher Mills. Picked up guitar at 10, got hooked on hardcore through bands like Blink 182 and NOFX, then jumped into the straight-edge crew there. Always spoke positive about the scene, saying it shaped how he moved. From there, he co-starred outfits like few in the proud, which morphed into convicted and finally Harms Way, blending power violence, punk, and metal eddies. They built a solid run of albums and EPs on labels like Organized Crime and Closed Casket,

1:00then leveled up with Death Wish Inc, Pulling International, Fans. Their latest drops, Post-Human in 2018, and Common Suffering in 2023 on Metal Blade, kept the momentum rolling. Looters also jumped in with Louisville, straight-edge band XWeapon X for a few releases around that time. The community's feeling this hard, a real pillar gone too soon in the hardcore world. Harms Way's statement calls for space as they grieve, and stresses helps out there for depression or dark thoughts, hit the 988 suicide, and crisis lifeline. We hold it down for the scene and keep his energy alive.