PipemanRadio Interviews Brandon Saller of Atreyu at Louder Than Life 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Brandon Saller of Atreyu at Louder Than Life 2025

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Louder Than Life 2025 Wrapped Up 8 Electrifying Days Of Music Performances In Louisville, With America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival (Sept 18-21) & Bourbon & Beyond A Week Prior (Sept 11-14) Bringing In A Combined, Record-Breaking Attendance Of Over 450,000 Fans  

Louder Than Life Returns September 17-20, 2026 First Headliner Revealed: My Chemical Romance Plus Many More Acts To Be Announced Early Bird Tickets Will Go On Sale This Fall At  LouderThanLifeFestival.com

Louder Than Life not only continues its reputation as America’s Loudest Rock & Metal Festival with the 2025 edition, but the 11th year of the event also marked the biggest festival in the history of DWP, and breaking rock festival records in North America. There were a number of once-in-a-lifetime moments over the course of the four days that added to the specialness of Louder Than Life.

In addition to music performances, this year’s edition of Louder Than Life featured various partner onsite activations, award-winning beverages and delectable eats from partners including Acathla Clothing, Al Capone, Angel's Envy, Basil Hayden, Beatbox Beverages, Black Shades, Blackcraft Cult, Bud Light, Cutwater Spirits, Demons Behind Me, Dimebag Hardware, Drew Estate, Eargasm, Elijah Craig, Fxck Cancer, Huber's Starlight Distillery, Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Knob Creek & Rye, KREWE, Kroger, Maker's Mark, Middle West Spirits, Milagro Tequila, Old Forester, Park Community Credit Union,  Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, Parlor Root Beer, Red Bull, Strüng, Take Me Home, The Music Experience, The Taylor Foundation, Tito's Handmade Vodka, To Write Love on Her Arms, U.S. Army, U.S. Marines, Voices for Consumer Choice and Citizens for Tobacco Rights, White Claw, and Willett Distillery.   According to Louisville Tourism, it is estimated that Bourbon & Beyond and Louder Than Life together generated nearly $43 million in local economic impact in 2025. The back-to-back festivals also drove some of the highest hotel demand of the year, with overall occupancy reaching more than 80% citywide. These preliminary estimates highlight the tremendous tourism and economic value of the festivals, which bring hundreds of thousands of visitors to Louisville and fuel spending across hotels, restaurants, bourbon attractions, and local businesses.

Louder Than Life is produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, one of the largest independent producers of destination music festivals in America.  

To learn more about Louder Than Life, please visit:
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you lunto here?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
That's sure.

Speaker 1 (00:09):
For see why rare young.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is the pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe
Man W four c Y Radio, and I'm.

Speaker 1 (00:23):
With Brandon Salar from a tray.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
You nice here at Louder than Life. I'll tell you
how much I like you and your band that one
of my favorite all time ever bands is going to
be playing out there, and I prefer to be here.

Speaker 1 (00:37):
I love that, you know, appreciate you.

Speaker 2 (00:39):
And you brought your daughter.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
I brought my seven year old. This is Ruby Darling.
Say hi, Ruby, Hi there.

Speaker 2 (00:45):
What do you think of all this? What do you
think coming to the festival? Do you like it? Yeah?
Are you? Are you excited to see dad play? This
is your first interview? Huh, Yes, you're very good at it.
You know that you might be better than your dad probably.

(01:08):
I love that. Are you gonna play music like your
dad too?

Speaker 1 (01:15):
She's a singer, she sings, you sing?

Speaker 2 (01:18):
Whoa?

Speaker 1 (01:19):
She's a good singer.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
What's your favorite song?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
This thing?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Whoa?

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Shelexpenson Boone a lot? Nice, Lex Benson Boone a Lot,
very good. She also Loki has one of the craziest
screaming voices I've ever heard of my life?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Really, do you want to do it for me?

Speaker 1 (01:36):
Going to your scream?

Speaker 2 (01:38):
All right, fine, it's okay. We know you're good. We
don't need to hear you do exactly what's going on?

Speaker 1 (01:46):
Nothing, man. We're just about to kick off a world
tour for anniversary of our album The Curse next week.
We released a new song Dad yesterday. Nice and yeah.
We're kind of just like straddling the line of new
and old at the moment.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
I love that. But I'm a libra, so I kind
of liked a little bit of this and a little
bit of that.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's working out though.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
And I brought something I don't think you've ever seen before.
It's my battle vest from the eighties.

Speaker 1 (02:09):
Legendary, all right, legendary all right?

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So I want you to look at this, okay, and
tell me if you could guess what band on there
is the one I was referring to that's playing today. Okay,
I'm not just playing today like very soon, Oh man,
who's playing? I'll give you a hint. Okay, their logo
on here that I drew is not their logo anymore.

(02:35):
You think you know what is a guess? He? I
think it's the one on the set.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't know if it's it's not Anthrax.

Speaker 2 (02:42):
It's not Anfects, but you were close. It's the same genre. Possessed. No,
but it might be up here?

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Is it Exodus?

Speaker 2 (02:52):
It might be up here? You're right? How do you
guess that? Because I look to the bottom and decide again,
and then I looked.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
At you are very does does he strike you as
an Exodus fan?

Speaker 2 (03:06):
I don't even know what that is. I love it.

Speaker 1 (03:11):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (03:12):
So they didn't even have a Slayer patch yet. So
I did this when I courted it. So I did
this myself. And then in La they thought I was
a gang Meger and that was my gang name. But
you can roll with that too for cred totally, totally.
I'll take that. Yeah, So look on here, what band

(03:32):
would you want to tour with? Look on the front too.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
I'm gonna go. I mean I'm gonna go. I'm gonna
go Misfits for one.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Nice And you know what that one says. It's not
even appropriate today. It says no posers, no posers, You're
not a poser? Huh.

Speaker 1 (03:55):
I think I'm gonna go Misfits or Exploited.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
Nice, Yeah, so funny story about Exploited.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
So I interviewed Wattie one time at Punk Rock Bowling,
right before he was about to go on stage, and
I purposely got him riled up. My last question right
before he was going on stage, is so, Waddie, what
do you think of pop punk? Oh my god. He

(04:21):
went up on stage a he started going pump punk,
not real punk, telling all the people.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah. The first time we ever went to Europe, we
did a bunch of shows with It wasn't Exploited, but
it was his other it's like his mother band he
was doing and he was so intimidating and obviously like
growing up with Unexploited. It was like oh god, and
ended up being like the nicest dude ever.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Right.

Speaker 1 (04:41):
We kept seeing him like day after day at different
festivals and he was just like he'd be like, oh,
it's up, guys, and be like, it's fucking Watty from Elited.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
I know, right, it's finny. In my early days in
the eighties of the scene, I couldn't go to punk
shows because I had long hair. Oh yeah, so it's
like funny. One year I was interviewing GBA Exploited, Discharged,
all in the same year, all like three of my
favorite punk bands. Yeah, and I remember talking dude from

(05:07):
a Discharge. I'm like, this is pretty cool because, like
I'm interviewing you now, but I wasn't allowed to go
to your shows. Oh my things have changed, right, Yeah,
I think it's much better that we're one big, happy family.
I really thought that was stupid.

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yeah, it's silly, you.

Speaker 2 (05:22):
Know, right, We're one big happy family, right, Yes, nice,
that's the way it should be exactly.

Speaker 1 (05:30):
Yes, you could choose your band. Do you think I
should tour with all?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right?

Speaker 1 (05:33):
You choose Please say Metallica. Please say Metallica. I think
it actually should be Metallica. Yeah, Daddy's band should with Metallica.
Daddy thinks that also.

Speaker 2 (05:43):
I think a tray you should be the headliner and
Metallica should be the band that plays before them. What
you think? And then like after that business Metallica, you
could present Misfits.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
And then hopefully with me then miss Metallica Misfits to
tray you. I think it's a good tour. You know what.

Speaker 2 (06:01):
Metallica would do that too, they would they love Miss
James loves Miss But I don't know they know who
we are, but they love the missmit right there you go,
see this is you're the best interview ever, right Yeah,
she's like, I know, first time. Yeah, you're better than
your dad for the first time.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
Yes, yes, I love it.

Speaker 2 (06:23):
Yeah. Basically what you're going to be going on tour?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
You said, yeah, we started a world to war next week, UK,
Europe first and then back to the States. That runs
up pretty much till the end of the year.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
How do you find the difference playing in UK and
you're compared to here.

Speaker 1 (06:38):
It's a little bit more maybe a little bit more
passion driven, Like euro crowds are are wild and they
stick with you. Yeah, it's a little bit less fleeting
and like I think, once you have a fan in
a lot of those territories, like they're there for life,
no doubt. Not to say that they're not in the States,
but it's just elevated.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
No. I understand what you're saying, because there were a
lot of bands from the eighties that I loved and
I thought they weren't didn't exist anymore till I went
to Europe and found out they've just been there for
the past thirty years. Yeah, before you turn on the
radio in Europe and it's old school radio, like you're
listening to like an eighties radio conversation. So to your point.

(07:15):
And I do the festivals there, and I love doing
the festivals there too because it's just a different vibe
and there's the audience is so into it, like it
blows my mind. The campers, Yeah, they walk for miles
with all their campaign clearly, I'm like, they're so dedicated
and don't complain at all. It blows my mind.

Speaker 1 (07:36):
Happy to be there.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
And so where is your favorite country to play in Europe?

Speaker 1 (07:42):
We love the UK, love Germany. We always have really
great shows in Germany. I mean those are probably my
top two.

Speaker 2 (07:48):
We need you at Bloodstock next year for the anniversary.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
Awesome.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
Yeah, I love that. I just got I did. I
think like forty seven interviews at Bloodstock just here.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
A lot of good bands, a lot of good bands.

Speaker 2 (08:00):
Yeah, it's a great festival. But the Danny Wimmer festivals,
if you're going to pick a US festival, they're at
a festival. Do how as an artist do you feel
that any Wimmer treats you?

Speaker 1 (08:10):
I mean, he's it's the best of the best. I
mean to be honest about what decade ago, maybe a
little longer. We're a health fest in Europe in France,
and I saw Danny and catering. He's like, what's that man?
Like what are you doing here? And he's like, I'm
just kind of just looking around, just watching.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
I heard about and there.

Speaker 1 (08:27):
Wasn't It wasn't long before his festivals in the States
really started, like taking on a whole new beast and
becoming the sort of grandeur that the euro festivals are.
And I mean he takes care of bands, he takes
like everything's comfortable, everything is like fun and he's the
best at it.

Speaker 2 (08:45):
So true and like in fifteen years of doing his festival,
sixteen years, yeah, I've never had an order to say anything.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
Bad about No, we've never had a bad experience.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
And I did hear about that when it was over there,
because I do health Festive every there. Yeah, but that's
powder in that way too, because like health I remember
our doing the one right after COVID with there are
three hundred and sixty bands, two weekends, seven days. Yeah,
and bands were telling me and people told me not
one band went on late, and every one of them
told me load in and load out was the most

(09:14):
stressfully experience. It's flawless, and Danny copies that.

Speaker 1 (09:17):
Yeah, from what I hear, even though yeah, our crew too,
it's like these easy days.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
Yeah what I mean, and that that's necessary because it's
hard enough doing the show. We're dressed.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
It's good that you have a bunch of bands and
crews that are in good moods while they're here, no doubt.
Good time, you know what a concept?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
No doubt.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:33):
And are you going to take her into the amusement
park that is now part of Louder right?

Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah, tomorrow. I'm telling I'm begging my dad to take
me because maybe if he doesn't have that much interviews
and not a long show, he'll maybe take me. If
we have time, I said, tomorrow, we'll do rides.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Oh boy, how exciting.

Speaker 1 (09:52):
That's what's up.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
You want to see what happened last weekend here? Okay,
hopefully this won't happen. I don't think it will, but
check this out. Hold on, we gotta find it here.

Speaker 1 (10:06):
Lightning. That's the first wheel that if there's weather, we
won't go on the ferrest wheel.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
Yes, they won't let us anyway. They kicked us out
with a code. Right, that's wild, right, it's wild lightning
right crazy, And somebody said it hits that thing all
the time. Like, maybe put up a lightning.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Exactly, fingers closed and see if the first who is
actually working. Yeah, you want to do that big time.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
I think we're going to be good. The weather looks
great for tomorrow.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
It's kind of gonna be a little hot, so maybe
both do it tomorrow so we'll be kind of cool.

Speaker 2 (10:38):
So we have to wait until it's not hot or
not cool. That's right. This is great, well, great personality.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
I know she's not lacking that at all.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
I think I need you to like be my media
helper because you could probably do better interview.

Speaker 1 (10:52):
You got to start your own show.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
There you go. You want to have your own show? Yes, yes,
we can make I can make that.

Speaker 1 (10:59):
We'll find time in your school schedule. Yeah, we got
to talk to people about getting your own show room.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
All right, Well, if you want to do that, you
called me anytime and we'll put her on it and
she could have her own podcast. Yeah, that's right, that's right,
that's awesome. Would you want to show with your dad
where your dad's your co hosts or would you rather
do it by yourself. I would rather do it with
anyone that wants to do with.

Speaker 1 (11:27):
Anyone that wants it.

Speaker 2 (11:28):
That's what a podcast A great attitude. I love it.

Speaker 1 (11:31):
That's awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:32):
You are a superstar. I'm glad you came here because
otherwise this interview wouldn't a bit.

Speaker 1 (11:39):
Thanks you.

Speaker 2 (11:42):
Anything else you want to tell the listeners that they
need to look out for.

Speaker 1 (11:45):
Now man, just we're taking the road where it leads us,
so find us out there.

Speaker 2 (11:49):
Nice. Yeah, Well, I'm glad you're here at loud in
Life and thanks for being once again on the Adventures
of pipe Man.

Speaker 1 (11:55):
Always going to see it. Thank you for listening to
the Adventures of Patement on w for c u I Radio.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yah.