PipemanRadio Interviews Hinder at Louder Than Life 2025

PipemanRadio Interviews Hinder 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
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/LTLFest
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TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@louderthanlifefestival
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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hey you lunt, here's sure.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Fore wow, crazy young.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
This is Pipe Man here on the Adventures Pipe NW
four c Y Radio, and I'm here.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
With what's up. This is Cody and this is Marshall
from hinder Nice here at Louder than Life.

Speaker 3 (00:30):
Wetter than Life?

Speaker 2 (00:33):
Is that today?

Speaker 3 (00:34):
It could be worse though, because I did Bourbon and
Beyond last week and this is what our code read
was last week.

Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh wow. Yeah, that's quite the lightning strike.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Right, and that's that first wheel right there, So I
won't be going on that today.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
Yeah. Well, now you got me thinking about bourbon, so
thank you for that.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
There you go. Well, there's plenty of bourbon here at
Lowerdan Life, as you probably might know it. We are
in Kentucky, so absolutely, it's just part of the gig.
So besides the fact that you've been on Code Read
and sheltered in place, what do you think about being
that Louder than Life?

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Oh? Man, it's awesome to be here. I was just
walking around seeing a lot of old friends and bands
that we've toured with in the past. It's been crazy.
Some of these guys we haven't seen play since twenty fourteen, right,
and they've been some of our best friends for years
and years. So it's really great to see everybody.

Speaker 3 (01:26):
Who are you looking forward to seeing? And here at
Louder in Life.

Speaker 2 (01:30):
Rev Theory Actually, like I said, yeah, like I said,
we've been friends with them for forever. We got woken
up by Rich their singer, at like eight thirty am
this morning, just comes barging in the busking us up
in monk Alley. So that part wasn't quite so pleasant.
But besides that, it's great to see.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
But that is the life. I love that. Yeah, that
shows the camaraderie to friendships and could just go in
and do that. Yeah, that's something I would do too. Yeah,
and you've had some new music recently. It's really really good.
How do you keep coming up with new music that's good?
Like I always think about, like it's gotta be hard

(02:08):
after a while to come up with music and you're
always trying to outdo what you did before.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Well, lucky for us, Marshall went through a breakup, so
his heartache was our win here. So that helped a
lot of the subject matter on the record and kind
of makes you think, you know, even for me, like
writing along with him, like bringing up old emotions to
try to add to the storyline and stuff. So it's fun, man,
And a lot of the material that was on this
record we'd written quite a while back. It's been sitting

(02:36):
on a hard drive and we got to go back
through it and revive some of it and reimagine them
as Hinder tracks, and so that was a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
So question on that is what made it sit for
a while? Like, and I don't know how long that
while is or else I would say, well, it was
probably COVID, but now we're like six years from COVID
or whatever.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, some of the songs were written for other side
projects that we were doing. We were doing some things
for a while and outside of Hinder, and we always
loved the songs but never really felt like it was
the time to put them out. But over COVID, we
actually did write an entire album and decided we weren't
happy with it and it didn't feel like us, so
we threw it away and kind of started over.

Speaker 3 (03:19):
What do you think attributed to the fact that album
wasn't you?

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I think at the time we had this plan of
attack that was like, let's try to reimagine what it
would be like if we redid the first record today.
So we were trying to kind of stick to the
roots of the first record to see what happened right,
and what turned out ended up sounded a little dated.
It didn't really have this fresh take on that first

(03:44):
record like we had hoped for. It just sounded like
us doing a dated version of ourselves.

Speaker 2 (03:50):
So I think that's what made us kind of shel
of it.

Speaker 1 (03:54):
But you know what's funny about that is, like, we
listened back to some of those songs recently and there's
actually some really good songs in there that we had
kind of overlooked and discounted then. So you know, maybe
they'll see the light of day sometime.

Speaker 3 (04:09):
Well, And you did make a good point, because if
you just try to be who you were, then it
might not gel with new people. Now, like maybe the
old people will be like, yeah, finally they're back to
their roots. But you got to evolve as an artist,
and like, if you are evolved and got better at

(04:30):
your craft, you might look back on that. Like Hetfield,
he always talks about how the San Jose Sharks play
Seek and Destroyed, but they played the original versions, and
he's like, why don't they played the newer version that
I've re recorded, because what I can sing now I
sucked them.

Speaker 2 (04:49):
Well, yeah, yeah, exactly what you said is right. But
also we've changed its people too, you know what I mean,
We're not We're not the same kids we were when
we did that first record. So you evolve not only
as like musicians and songwriters, but as human beings. So
it definitely makes a difference.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, that's a big point of it too, right, And
as you get older, your thought process kind of changed.
What you would sing about is different when I would
sing about at sixteen, certainly I wouldn't sing about now exactly.
Tell us about the heartbreak, not the details, because that sucks,
But tell us how it motivated you to write some

(05:26):
great new music.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Well, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:28):
I mean, I think it was like it was the
combination of a breakup but also a midlife crisis in
a sense for me. So I was losing my mind
about a lot of things, having a hard time mentally
dealing with the fact that I was getting older. So
there was just a lot of emotions on top of
the heartbreak and stuff. So it was just it was

(05:49):
so easy to just say how I felt because I
felt emotionally charged at that time.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, I think it does help. Like emotions are music,
that's what it's all about. Yeah, And sadly enough, dude,
there's play more to write about nowadays. Who would think
that we would have the same and worst things to
write about twenty twenty five. It's like in the eighties.

Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah, it's a trip to me.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
I think you can take a bunch of eighties songs
right now, change names in them and it's the same song.

Speaker 1 (06:22):
Well, you know what's crazy is like when you're really
content and life can be really great, but that doesn't
mean that you have anything to say about it. I mean,
try writing a song that's like about something happy and
not tragic. It's a lot more difficult than you think.
Right then, when you're upset and you're going through a
bunch of turbulence that you know, that kind of material
is easy to pull right out of you.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
That's why sometimes I think it must be really hard
to write like a pop song because a pop song
doesn't go deep. Usually sometimes it does, but if you're
not going deep, it's a trip.

Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah. The thing about pop, though, is like pop sounds happy, right,
so you can make it match the mood, But try
writing a happy rock song, right that, just those two
things don't go together. That's not gonna make any sense.
It just sounds cheesy and lame. Nobody wants to.

Speaker 3 (07:10):
Hear that, right, Like tonight bring Me to Rise in headline,
and I don't think I could ever hear Ali singing
a happy song except the happy song.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
Right exactly exactly?

Speaker 3 (07:24):
And so what else you got planned after Louder than Life?
What's going on that we need to tell the listeners about?

Speaker 2 (07:30):
After this, We're gonna go home for ten days and
then we're heading back west to go do Aftershock. You
have a few shows on the way there and home,
and then after that we're gonna kind of take it
easy and we'll probably get back in the studio and
try to write some new materials just to see what happens.

Speaker 1 (07:45):
You know.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
We're not going to put any pressure on ourselves or
anything like that. And then we have a show with
Creed right after Christmas, and that'll be it for the year,
and then we kind of start looking at next year.

Speaker 3 (07:54):
Is it wild to you to be doing a show
with Creed in twenty twenty five?

Speaker 2 (07:59):
Is absolutely insane?

Speaker 3 (08:01):
Right?

Speaker 2 (08:02):
Yeah? I never thought that would happen in a million years.
We've gotten to do a few of them now, and
it's wild.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
Man.

Speaker 2 (08:06):
It's crazy to go back and hear all those songs
now one time and see it in person. It's like
it's like a flashback, and it is so damn good.
They are so good, man.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
I almost think a lot of music was better back then.
I find a lot of specifically metal bands nowadays they
use it's like I called it, algebraic equation to write
their songs. It's like, no, metal doesn't use formulas, right,
And then I think back when I was a kid

(08:39):
listen to metal and my dad goes or people that
didn't like metal, going, oh, that sounds the same, and
I'm like, no, it doesn't sound the same. Metallica doesn't
sound the same as Slayers, Anthrax, as Motley Crue, as whoever.
But now I'm like, yeah, that shit sounds the same.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
But they're all using the same guitar tone and the
same snare snare sample and the same you know what
I mean. So yeah, it does sound the same.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
Intentionally like people back then though, It's like my mom,
even my brother, they would say that about rock music,
like it all.

Speaker 2 (09:13):
Sounds the same.

Speaker 1 (09:14):
I'm like, you guys are listening to the country, you
know you're gonna tell me that all that stuff doesn't
sound the same without.

Speaker 2 (09:20):
Man, it's like.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
I could write a country song with just like five
words as with a shruck alcohol exactly, and women trusting
a lost dog and the dog I forgot the dog.
So mud story good or bad for both of you
in your whole musical journey? What would you share?

Speaker 2 (09:42):
Oh that's really hard, man, I know.

Speaker 3 (09:45):
That's why I like that question, to.

Speaker 2 (09:48):
Be honest, Like, it's kind of a broad story. I
think for us, the fact that we've gone through all
the things that we have as a band, and the
fact that we're still here and we've kind of like
clawed our way back out of the shit, you know
what I mean, and the fans stuck around and continue
to embrace us, and we're out doing it. Man, that's
that is the story for me. I think I love it.

(10:10):
Just a story. Random story.

Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
First thing that pops into mind the first time I
ever sang for Hind, the very first time I filled
in singing for Hinder, we opened for Lynyrd Skinnard.

Speaker 3 (10:23):
That's a cool opening.

Speaker 1 (10:24):
Right during the breakdown of Tuesday's Gone. A singer comes
right over on a side stage. He walked up, He's like, hey, man,
I heard you sing earlier. You got some great pipes. Man,
that was awesome and that Like wow. I was just thinking,
like if I could go tell my fifteen year old
self that was gonna happen one day, Like wow.

Speaker 3 (10:40):
I interviewed them like three times, and they're just good
old boys. I was just talking about this icons like
that they have no clue that the rock stars. They're
just like good old boys playing music, you know. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
One time, I remember we were in Ashville doing a
tour of Blackbird Studio and somebody opened the door. Whoever
was doing the tour for us, opened the door and
walked right into one of Flindard Skinner's sessions when I
was sitting in there just listening to one of the mixes.
And they couldn't have been nicer. Even in that instance
where we just kind of barged in on their recording session,
they were still so nice.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
And that's so cool to hear because most of the
time that wouldn't be the case.

Speaker 2 (11:17):
Exactly exactly.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
So I'll share with you this answer that Rossington gave
me to that same question I just asked you. He
goes like, just like this, he goes the time we
had sex with the Spice girls backstage. Wait wait wait
edit that out? Great answer, right, I mean it was
just classic. So how do you feel the band is

(11:44):
better now with the current lineup bent ever been?

Speaker 2 (11:49):
I think the fact that just together we are stronger.
We all just have such a great relationship. It's stable,
it's steady for one team marching toward a common goal.
It's all about us collectively. It's all about the band,
and that's really what it's all about. You can't survive otherwise.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
I think that's an important point too, because when you're
teenagers starting out a band, you think a certain way,
but then as you get older, you all start like
I couldn't hang out with most any of my teenage
friends anymore. So I think as you get older, then
you find your tribe to be part of your band,

(12:27):
Like you're on the same page. Yep, it's not gonna change.
Things change drastically between that teenage years and even thirty,
like all the way through or even up to forty.
Man changes drastically. I think at some point you finally
become who you really are, and then you attract the

(12:49):
others that are the same thing.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
Yep, yeah, no, I mean you nailed it absolutely right.

Speaker 3 (12:55):
Anything else you want to share with the listeners that
you got coming up, or anything we didn't cover, you
want them to know.

Speaker 2 (13:01):
We always like to just say a huge thanks to
everybody that's stuck with us through like I said, all
the bullshit that we've been through. I mean, without our fans, obviously,
we couldn't do it and we know that and they're everything.
And also, go check out the new album back to Life. Yeah,
that's a big deal for us.

Speaker 3 (13:15):
It is a great album. I'm so pumped you're here
at loud in Life and Aftershock because that's a killer
one too.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Yeah, I was looking forward to that.

Speaker 3 (13:24):
And thanks for being on the Adventures of pipe Man.

Speaker 2 (13:26):
Thanks for having us.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Thank you for listening to the Adventures of pipe Man.
I'm w for CUI Radio.