Joe Daly is a seasoned music journalist with over three decades of experience chronicling the loud, the heavy, and the unapologetically weird. Based in the sun-drenched outskirts of San Diego, he’s been a regular contributor to Metal Hammer since 2010, while also lending his voice to Classic Rock, Bass Player, Men’s Health, and others. A former music editor and contributor to outlets including SPIN and the BBC, Daly specialises in longform features, irreverent cultural critiques, and the occasional existential meltdown. When he’s not writing, he’s usually blasting black metal at intolerable volumes, punishing his P-bass, or walking his two rescue dogs through the beaches and canyons of North County, contemplating the collapse of linear time.
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Joe has interviewed hundreds of artists over the past twenty-five years, including Black Sabbath, Metallica, Pantera, Slayer, Public Enemy, The Pixies, Moby, Def Leppard and a legion of European black metal and death metal outfits of whom you have almost certainly never heard.
When Joe’s not writing about himself in the third person, he additionally works as research assistant for various authors and he has served as music editor for both The Weeklings and The Nervous Breakdown. Joe is also a live music photographer who practices way too much on his two dogs. Together, they live near the beach in San Diego and when Joe’s not taunting the sun with his pasty Irish skin, you can find him at home, blasting Motörhead at neighbor-bothering volumes, beating on a perfectly good bass guitar or yelling at the television during hockey games .
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