Joe is Loudwire's Editor-In-Chief since 2024 and started as a freelancer with the site in 2013. A fan of rock and metal since residing in the womb, raised on GN'R and only the best of the hair metal ...
Since 2007, Thou have been a massive presence of heaviness. At first they were just viewed as a doom band, but as the Louisiana-based five-piece have experimented over 15 releases, they've grabbed ...
In his latest installment of his 'Mean Deviation' column, music historian Jeff Wagner tells us why he thinks Metallica is the ultimate heavy metal cover band. Wagner is the author of 'Mean Deviation: ...
The instrumental progressive-metal movement has never been as thrilling as it has been in the past year or so. Groups like Animals As Leaders and Scale the Summit have proven that vocals don't ...