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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