
Joe Daly
Hailing from San Diego, California, Joe Daly is an award-winning music journalist with over thirty years experience. Since 2010, Joe has been a regular contributor for Metal Hammer, penning cover features, news stories, album reviews and other content. Joe also writes for Classic Rock, Bass Player, Men’s Health and Outburn magazines. He has served as Music Editor for several online outlets and he has been a contributor for SPIN, the BBC and a frequent guest on several podcasts. When he’s not serenading his neighbours with black metal, Joe enjoys playing hockey, beating on his bass and fawning over his dogs.
Latest articles by Joe Daly

Iron Maiden's Senjutsu: an electrifying, cinematic masterpiece
By Joe Daly last updated
Metal’s most travelled champions Iron Maiden reach new states of grandeur with Senjutsu

Watch Dave Grohl try to keep his cool during this adorably awkward meeting with Slayer in 1998
By Joe Daly last updated
It seems that the Foo Fighters frontman can become a giddy little goat just like us mere mortals

The 20 greatest horror movie themed metal anthems
By Merlin Alderslade, Chris Chantler, Joe Daly, Dom Lawson, Adam Brennan last updated
Metal’s history with horror movies goes back decades. We count down the 20 greatest anthems inspired by the screen, from the gruesome, to the grizzly, to the straight-up glorious

10 of the best metal bands from California
By Joe Daly last updated
Looking at some of the best contributions to metal from The Golden State of California

Watch a young, pre-fame Lzzy Hale explain the importance of Avril Lavigne in this wholesome, unearthed video
By Joe Daly published
A young Lzzy was filmed for an Avril Lavigne documentary released almost 20 years ago!

Megadeth’s The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!: what doesn’t kill Dave Mustaine only makes him stronger
By Joe Daly last updated
Album review: The Second Golden Age Of Megadeth continues on new album The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!

Someone has reimagined a ton of metal classics in major key and the results will warm your heart
By Joe Daly last updated
Happy Metal is a brilliant experiment that will have you hearing Metallica, Maiden and Megadeth like never before

Slayer's Kerry King: "Dave Mustaine helped Metallica become what Metallica is"
By Joe Daly last updated
Legendary Slayer axeman Kerry King talks 40 years of thrash history with fellow Big Four alumni Metallica

Metallica - Master Of Puppets: Remastered Deluxe Boxed Set album review
By Joe Daly last updated
Thrash metal masterpiece gets a definitive makeover

The A-Z of Megadeth
By Joe Daly last updated
Everything you need to know about Dave Mustaine and Megadeth

The Metallica Blacklist: thrash icons' landmark album gets covered across the musical spectrum
By Joe Daly last updated
Ghost, The Hu and… Miley Cyrus go all in on a Metallica lovefest

This video of Lemmy and Joey Ramone hanging out and bantering MTV (while on MTV) is the definition of friendship goals
By Joe Daly published
Motörhead and The Ramones had an immense amount of love for each other, and it really shows here

Ten things we learned from the emotional new Ronnie James Dio film, Dreamers Never Die
By Joe Daly published
From Dio's school days to his final hours, here are our takes from this year's must-see metal documentary

The Hu’s Rumble Of Thunder: Mongolian folk-metal heroes’ unstoppable march continues
By Joe Daly published
Album review: Mongolian folk metal sensations The Hu add a touch of the 21st century on new album Rumble Of Thunder

The Top 20 best Five Finger Death Punch songs
By Joe Daly published
The songs that have turned Five Finger Death Punch into one of modern metal’s biggest bands

Farewell to Kings: how Kiss built and sustained The Greatest Show on Earth for 50 years
By Joe Daly published
Kiss are preparing to close the door on their remarkable career. As with all the greats, we will never see their like again...

Watch Rob Halford be the classiest guy in the room on a 1994 TV debate about obscene lyrics
By Joe Daly published
When Judas Priest's Rob Halford appeared on Australian TV for a censorship debate, he was the personification of charm and thoughtfulness

We asked Tobias Forge how much he uses social media and he gave us a mini-lesson in how brains work
By Joe Daly published
Ghost mastermind Tobias Forge is no fan of social media - and he gave us a very scientific explanation as to why

Why Heavy Trip is the funniest metal movie since This Is Spinal Tap
By Joe Daly published
Director Juuso Laatio reveals the challenges of making a film featuring grave robbers and a band called Impaled Rektum

A love letter to Airheads: one of the great metal cult classics of the 90s
By Joe Daly published
Michael Lehmann's 1994 comedy Airheads bombed on release, but has since been embraced by metalheads the world over

Watch the heartwarming moment Avenged Sevenfold's M Shadows took a stage dive - and got a very special t-shirt as a result
By Joe Daly published
Avenged Sevenfold and their fans created a spontaneous but heartfelt tribute to The Rev

The Decline Of Western Civilization Part II's infamous Chris Holmes pool scene was a dark glimpse inside 80s metal excess
By Joe Daly published
Inside W.A.S.P.'s Chris Holmes' infamous appearance in Penelope Spheeris's documentary

Watain’s The Agony & Ecstasy Of Watain: savage, brutal and… catchy?!
By Joe Daly published
Album review: Watain take black metal into stellar new realms on The Agony And The Ecstasy of Watain
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