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September 22, 2025 8 mins
PipemanRadio Interviews Fox Lake 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:
Website: https://louderthanlifefestival.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/louderthanlifefestival
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLFest
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louderthanlifefest
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louderthanlifefestival
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hi, you lnto here.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
That's shirt Wow, crazy you. This is the pipe Man
here on the Adventures pipe Man W four c Y Radio,
and I'm here with.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
This is Zach, Nathan and Brandon where.

Speaker 4 (00:30):
That was a good way to do it. I liked it. Okay, First,
I want to just go off your shirt.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
I just saw them the other day here at Lower
in Life and May were fucking killer.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (00:40):
These are some of our probably our best friends in bands.
We toured with them. And the drummer Connor, he is
kind of like a little bit of our fourth member.
He writes and records our music and has since we
were a band. So love everybody in that band.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
Yeah, very cool. And then I'm gonna go your hat.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
And I have a question for you because I'm from
New York in New Jersey, okay, and I go all
over the world and everybody wears Yankee hats.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
So are you actually a Yankee fan or are you just.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Anyway?

Speaker 6 (01:12):
Let's move on to the next one's what else the
follow up question that you got for me?

Speaker 2 (01:15):
As long as you're not a Mets fan? Okay, So
you're here at Louder in Life. How badass is that?

Speaker 1 (01:23):
It's the coolest thing in the world.

Speaker 6 (01:24):
We've done a handful of these a couple of years ago,
and every time we pull up, it's just the most
exciting getting to see all the buses, all the semis,
getting to see bands walking around, like physically bumping into
heroes of yours at catering, and it's just the coolest
thing in the world.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
And then every time you've been here, it's gotten bigger
and bigger, right, you know.

Speaker 3 (01:42):
Yeah, I think this is like the biggest here, right,
Like this is the breaking.

Speaker 2 (01:46):
Yes, two days ago was announced, like two days in
it was announced the biggest rock festival in the United States.

Speaker 3 (01:55):
That's so cool. Yeah, we're honored to be here for sure,
right yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
And what I always like to add ask the bands,
and you've had a few experiences, has Danny Wimmer treat
you as an artist?

Speaker 3 (02:06):
We haven't met him personally, but it's like the you know,
I mean, the whole experience is catered towards the artist
for sure. Like we feel very well taken care of
anytime we play one of these.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
Yeah, yeah, one hundred percent.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
Like everybody I've ever talked to in sixteen years never
has anything bad to say, And That's so important to
me because you come into a festival, it's not really
your venue, it's not really your stuff, and it can
be super fucking stressful, to be honest. Yeah, you know, sure,
and that's not good for a set. I find love ours.

(02:38):
Tell me like it's so stress fit free that they
really can have fun when they get up on stage.

Speaker 1 (02:45):
Yeah, it shows, yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:47):
And that's key.

Speaker 2 (02:47):
If you're not having fun, I'm not having fun, don't
know what I mean. And you can see it. So
I was listening to your newest music. It's pretty fucking badass.
It's gonna be blunt, Okay, I'm just gonna be blunned.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Oh yeah, I know, right.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
So tell us about the new music and how you
think it has evolved from your beginning.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Good question.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
It was like kind of the first time that we
set out with a specific sound in mind. We have
collections of music previously. Some people are calling it like
the New World Heat is our sophomore album, but we're
kind of looking at it as our debut album, just
because this is the first time we had intention on
setting out a.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
Writing music with a purpose.

Speaker 3 (03:29):
And yeah, we tried a lot of stuff that we
haven't done previously, and I think it shows and we
had a blast writing and it comes across in the record.

Speaker 4 (03:36):
See.

Speaker 2 (03:37):
I love hearing that too, because especially the fact that
you consider it your debut, because what that tells me
is you finally found who you guys want.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Be as artists one hundred percent. What do you think
prompted that to get to that point? Now? What what
did road did you go through to get to a
point where you finally found your sound?

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Yeah?

Speaker 5 (03:58):
I feel like went through I mean a lot of
shows and a lot of touring. The main thing I
think that really led to the sound was seeing what
worked in previous releases, like in EPs, and then also
just revisiting something like a few years after you write
it and put it out, you kind of get fresh
ears on it of like who do we want to be?

Speaker 1 (04:17):
And did this fit?

Speaker 5 (04:19):
And did this not fit? And maybe this was popular
a few years ago, but it's not popular now, and
really just what do we want to be? And I
think it was easy to implement the things that we
wanted to add in and then just pick and choose
the things that we had already been doing. And you know,
it's just kind of a perfect storm of tweaking the
sound in certain ways to be exactly what we wanted

(04:40):
it to sound like and have the intensity that we
wanted to have. And we couldn't be more proud of
the record.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
And what were the components of it that make it
your sound now compared to previous music you've put out,
What do you think are the ideas, the concepts, the creativity,
the experimentation that led to that.

Speaker 5 (05:00):
Well, for me, for the lyrics, it was a lot
more directly written to be a little more new metal
rather than more kind of hip hop versus. So that
was a big thing for me, while keeping kind of
like we've always had one liners and call outs for
the breakdown everything, but I think writing things in a
way that wasn't necessarily verse chorus first chorus like kind

(05:23):
of a rapping verse and a screaming chorus and more
focused on a new metal style of music was definitely
something for me.

Speaker 4 (05:30):
Cool do you guys have anything you want? Had for me.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Instrumentally, I think the.

Speaker 6 (05:36):
Difference between the first couple of EPs to this record
was those EPs were written to keep the band floating
to we needed more music to be able to play live,
We needed more music to be able to release, and
it was always kind of like, yeah, like we'll go up,
we'll write some songs, we're happy with them, and I
truly like, to this day, I'm very happy with almost
our entire discography. But getting into the studio for this

(05:59):
album specifically was so much more intentional, and we took
like four or five weeks of pre production and writing,
and then we had I think like five weeks of recording,
just going over everything with a fine tooth comb and
making sure that it's exactly what we wanted to present.
And also having a full track list as opposed to
four songs. Yeah, we felt like we could kind of

(06:21):
stretch our legs a little bit more into it's okay
to have this kind of heavy song, because that doesn't
define the record if it's twenty five percent versus if
it's ten percent. Yeah, So being able to do a
little bit more of everything because you can pad the
track list with all the different kind of sounds and things,
your influences that you're trying to present, versus being like
we've only got four songs, we have to make sure that.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
It's this specific thing.

Speaker 6 (06:44):
So that really, yeah, just made space for us to
write in a different way and to present the music
in a different way.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
That's really exciting for us.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
I think that's a great answer right there, because I
don't think most people realize that that they think it's
easier to write an EP than an album, and you're
proving different.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Obviously, there's pros and cons for everything.

Speaker 6 (07:06):
Only having a couple of things you're responsible for is
easier overall and takes less time and money and stuff
like that. But being able to not have to worry
about cutting out ideas nearly as much and shaping something
to be a full presentation as opposed to like, here's
a handful of songs was really exciting and it gave
us a lot more room.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
And the key word that Floyd in my head is
that experimentation. You can't really experiment on EP, but you
can on an album, and I think all artists should
experiment one percent. You have anything else you want to
tell the listeners that we haven't covered already that they
need to know Number one, Number two toe your socials,

(07:48):
your web, and how they buy your merch because they
can't listen to my show unless they buy your merch.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Sure it's a good real foxgband dot Com we've got
all of our tour dates on there. After Louder than Life,
we've got about a month of headliner shows with Kawanashi
does Madre Teeth freaking extortionists.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
So I think that's how all let a lineup surface.

Speaker 1 (08:08):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (08:09):
I know there's one more in there. It'll be nine
twenty six to ten nineteen, and then we'll be home
for a while and then now with Coban gray Haven
from mid November to mid December, so come check out
a show.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
Nice.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Well, you guys are fucking here at Louder than Life
and to me, your music's louder than life. And thanks
for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 3 (08:30):
Thanks man, Thanks appreciate it.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of Pipe Man
on w for CUI Radio.
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