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September 22, 2025 8 mins
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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.  

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
This is pipe Man here on the Adventures pipe Man
W four c Y Radio. And I'm here with Matt
and Joe from Dead Yes. Here at Louder than Life. Yes,
another Danny Wimmer festival the best. When's the last time
you played Louder than Life?

Speaker 1 (00:37):
Louder Than Life? The last one we did?

Speaker 3 (00:39):
What do you think twenty seventeen?

Speaker 4 (00:40):
I think eighteen and we did it.

Speaker 1 (00:42):
Twice, so I think we did it was Ozzie on
the Ye Okay, so I think it was like maybe
maybe nineteen, possibly might have been nineteen.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
It's so different, isn't it. Well, it's totally different. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Have you gone like and seen what's out there? Here's
what I love always dread come into this festival. Not
because of the festival. The festival dust was so bad
at this venue where I wouldn't be able to breathe.
After the second day, I'm coughing up rocks. Now there's
no dust out there. It's all asphalt and fake grass,

(01:17):
and I'm like, I've been here for two weeks now
because I did Bourban Beyond and I can still breathe.

Speaker 4 (01:21):
I'm very happy, Like last year.

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's always nice.

Speaker 4 (01:24):
It took like a month for me to recover.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, I like breathing.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
I think that's good for an artist too, because I
always wonder.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
I'm like, how the hell are you singing with all
that festival dust in the air? I always think about
that and then how you go to the next show
and still be able to sing? Sure it's tough, Yeah,
but how do you love Louder than Life and Danny
Wimmer festivals?

Speaker 1 (01:45):
I love them. They're so much fun. They are. We
feel blessed. We got put on them early and they
still have us now.

Speaker 4 (01:52):
It's always a celebration.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
You get to see everybody, very family feeling, you know,
there's so many people. It's just dude, it's awesome. It's
so cool that they exist because they didn't exist until
maybe ten years ago, I think, or so or I
don't know, maybe a little.

Speaker 4 (02:04):
Bit before that, but it wasn't as big before. Yeah,
like I've been doing for like sixteen years. It's great
for heavy music.

Speaker 2 (02:10):
And you know what it's great for, like a band
like you that's so good is it's a testament how good.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
You are that you're playing here again?

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like how many times do festivals like invite you pretty
much like all the time. It's because Danny loves you, right,
I mean that's about line.

Speaker 4 (02:28):
Love you Danny.

Speaker 2 (02:29):
How does Danny after all these years of doing these festivals,
how does Danny treat you as an artist compared to
other festivals in your opinion?

Speaker 4 (02:37):
Wow?

Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, you get taken care of amazingly. I mean just
the lineups are great. It's a nice room, you're stocked up.
It's pretty easy.

Speaker 4 (02:44):
Right, fun.

Speaker 2 (02:45):
That's the key word easy, because like you gotta go
out there and perform. The last thing you need is stress,
Like with load in sound check it and all I
ever hear from Mars is it's easy. It's I can
relax like I did. My soundjacket was great. Now I
can relax. How often does that happen? There's a lot

(03:05):
of festivals that that ain't the case. Sure. So what
is new and exciting for you guys coming up in
twenty twenty six and of course the end of this year.

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Well, we just dropped our brand new album Resent today.

Speaker 4 (03:17):
That's so beautiful.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yeah, I love it, which is awesome. It's a Louder
than Life review preview. Here are there songs you had
planned for Louder than Life that nobody's heard yet live.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
We're playing two new songs that know well, the album
came out now, so if you listen to it already,
but like the first time, we're ever playing these two
songs live today. Yeah, playing a couple new ones live.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
I love it. Yeah, I love it. So what is
different or has evolved with this newest album compared to
the previous ones?

Speaker 3 (03:53):
What the songwriting, the vibe, the overall feeling of everything. Honestly,
we just came with a blank canvas, a new set
of songs that to me are polarizing. There's the dark
and then there's the light. And we all had one
hundred percent creative freedom on writing these songs, which is
new to us too.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
So you create from whatever, from wherever you are. So
we're in a new place then we were three or
four years ago when we had our last record, and
then in a new place then we were when we
did our first record. So I just think we're in
a new place. There's just new experiences that have happened.
There's different things that happened to you, and we tried
to do whatever we wanted to on this record. We
wanted to just have no no rules. I think we

(04:36):
did that.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
See that I love because I'm the firm belief of
as the artist, you should be the one hundred percent
creative making the decisions. Like you're the creator, you're the artists.
So when I hear that you have one hundred percent
control the creativity, to me, that means it's probably gonna
be your best music ever. Oh yeah, I think you know,

(04:58):
because that's the true agree with you.

Speaker 1 (05:00):
I agree with you at least for us. Like you know,
you gotta do what you think is awesome for yourself first,
and then you share it with the world. That's usually
how like good art is made. It's not thinking about
how it's going to be, because then there's like a
sense of like questioning yourself. Is a sense of fear
in that actually, and I think a lot of the
best art is fearlessening in a lot of way, at
least the music and probably a lot of other forms

(05:21):
of art.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
So look at Ozsy passed away recently, but I think
he never went by the rules every just was Ozzy always.
Really Yeah, that's the longevity, that's what because when you
try to be what the listeners want or what anybody
else wants. I don't think you're going to get the
longevity either A because people can tell you're not authentic,

(05:43):
or B you just hate doing it because you're not
truly being the artist.

Speaker 4 (05:49):
Sure, yeah, that's like.

Speaker 1 (05:51):
The thing is like, if you make music that you
don't like and then nobody else likes it, then no
one likes it, Then what's the point of it being
made and put it into the world, no doubt. If
you love it, then it wins, no matter why. If
you love it and then everybody else hates it, you
still love it. If you love it and everybody else
loves it, then everybody wins. So I think that's the
way to go.

Speaker 2 (06:08):
I think, how can I ass a listener If the
band doesn't love their own music, how am I supposed
to love their music?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Absolutely?

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Sure?

Speaker 4 (06:15):
So one story, good or bad in this whole.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Musical journey that you've been on all these years, what
would you share.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
Out of all of these years?

Speaker 1 (06:27):
There's too many? I mean, there's too many.

Speaker 4 (06:28):
I know. That's why it's a hard question.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, it we're just lucky to get another shot at
making another amazing album with the amazing team. Honestly, looking back,
I don't want to think about anything negative. I don't
I don't care.

Speaker 4 (06:43):
Yeah, I'd rather just look forward, love that.

Speaker 3 (06:45):
Look out into the pit and just watch people moshing.
That's got to be my favorite thing in the world.

Speaker 1 (06:51):
Yeah, I'm with you on that. Like I think, just
always being in the present moment and then forward is great. Yeah,
you look back like like we were.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
Just talking about that.

Speaker 1 (06:58):
Where like ever people asking us, like tell us a
z any story or whatever, I don't remember them. Like
they come up organically. You come up with some stupid
thing that happened. You're like, man, I can't. That's such
a fun thing with life. You go, I forget all
the cool things that happened, and then it's fun when
it comes back up and you can think about it,
and then you forget about it again. Kill too many
brain cells with Well.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
I love that you both said that, because my other
hat is a motivational speaker. So I'm all about not
focusing on the negative, focus on the positive.

Speaker 4 (07:26):
There's always positive if you want to find it.

Speaker 2 (07:28):
Yeah, And that's what you guys are doing, and that's
what makes your band so great, your music so great,
and your live show badass. Well, thank you so We
love having you here at Loud than Life. We look
forward to a lot more. And how does everybody get
the new album?

Speaker 4 (07:44):
Now that it's dropped, it's streaming.

Speaker 1 (07:47):
Wherever you stream music, you can still buy it. I'm
sure on like Amazon and iTunes and stuff.

Speaker 2 (07:52):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
However you get music, it's probably on YouTube.

Speaker 4 (07:54):
Do you have any that they can buy like vinyl?

Speaker 3 (07:57):
We have vinyls, limited copies of vinyls, limit artwork and pressings,
and then the just the normal regular vinyl that you
could pick up at any of the shows on this
tour that we're doing, the Black Mass Tour. We have
them with us. We have CDs physical CDs along with
all of our other merch and like Joe said, you
can go literally anywhere on the internet and stream our music.

Speaker 1 (08:18):
Yeah, and our website deadband dot com like has all
the links to everything, so just go to the website.
We got a new website which we think is dope,
so check it out.

Speaker 4 (08:27):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (08:27):
Well, thanks a lot for being here and thanks for
being on the Adventures of pipe Man once again.

Speaker 3 (08:32):
Thanks brother, thank you

Speaker 1 (08:34):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man
on w for CUI Radio.
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