Hard Volume

{{Short description|1989 studio album by Rollins Band}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2023}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Hard Volume

| type = studio

| artist = Rollins Band

| cover = Rollins Band Hard Volume.jpg

| alt =

| released = 1989

| recorded = July–December 1988

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = Post-hardcore{{cite web | url=https://metalstorm.net/bands/album.php?album_id=105544&band_id=11187&bandname=Rollins+Band | title=Rollins Band - Hard Volume }}

| length = 71:03

| label = Texas Hotel

| producer = Theo Van Rock

| prev_title = Do It

| prev_year = 1987

| next_title = Turned On

| next_year = 1990

}}

{{Music ratings

|rev1 = AllMusic

|rev1score = {{Rating|4|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/hard-volume-mw0000311765|title=Hard Volume - Rollins Band | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic|via=www.allmusic.com}}

|rev2 = Alternative Press

|rev2score = {{Rating|5|5}} p.97-8, 4/00

|rev3 = The Austin Chronicle

|rev3score = {{rating|3|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/1999-12-10/75018/|title=Henry Rollins and Rollins Band|website=www.austinchronicle.com}}

|rev4 = The Encyclopedia of Popular Music

|rev4score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |last1=Larkin |first1=Colin |title=The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |date=2006 |publisher=MUZE |volume=7 |page=122}}

|rev5 = MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide

|rev5score = {{rating|3|5}}{{cite book |title=MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |date=1999 |publisher=Visible Ink Press |page=953}}

|rev6 = Punknews.org

|rev6score = {{rating|5|5}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.punknews.org/review/1501/rollins-band-hard-volume|title=Rollins Band - Hard Volume|website=www.punknews.org|date=December 13, 2002 }}

|rev7 = Spin Alternative Record Guide

|rev7score = 5/10{{cite book |title=Spin Alternative Record Guide |date=1995 |publisher=Vintage Books |pages=335–336}}

|rev8 = Sputnikmusic

|rev8score = 5/5{{Cite web|url=https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/75788/Rollins-Band-Hard-Volume/|title=Review: Rollins Band - Hard Volume | Sputnikmusic|website=www.sputnikmusic.com}}

}}

Hard Volume is the second studio album by American rock band Rollins Band, released in 1989.{{Cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/rollins-band-mn0000280956/biography|title=Rollins Band | Biography & History|website=AllMusic}}{{Cite web|url=http://thegreatrockbible.com/portfolio-item/henry-rollins-biography/|title=Henry ROLLINS biography|website=The Great Rock Bible|access-date=December 30, 2020|archive-date=February 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200222043023/http://thegreatrockbible.com/portfolio-item/henry-rollins-biography/|url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7ctjc6UWCm4C&dq=hard+volume+rollins+rough+guide&pg=PA884|title=The Rough Guide to Rock|first=Peter|last=Buckley|date=December 30, 2003|publisher=Rough Guides|isbn=9781843531050|via=Google Books}} It was reissued with previously unreleased tracks in 1999 through Buddah Records.{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dNQvurJWh3cC&dq=hard+volume+rollins+band+1989&pg=PA5|title=Artist News|work=CMJ New Music Report|date=November 15, 1999|publisher=CMJ Network, Inc.|via=Google Books}}

The original CD release contained a 32-minute jam on the Velvet Underground outtake "Move Right In," titled "Joy Riding with Frank." The track was recorded live in Linz, Austria, during the band's 1988 tour. The 1999 remastered edition replaced this track with six studio tracks: three from the album session at Echo Sound in Los Angeles in December 1988, and three from a demo session recorded in July 1988 at Graphic Studios in New Jersey.