On The Road – Lou Brutus

ON THE ROAD AGAIN!

It’s been a busy run of live concerts around the country for your friend and humble narrator!

In recent weeks, Lou Brutus has been to Baltimore MD to cover Deftones, then in Des Moines IA to host the L.D. 50 25th Anniversary Tour featuring Mudvayne, Static-X, and Vended. This was followed by run of days traveling on the Rise of Roach Tour with Papa Roach, Rise Against, and Underoath. It included a day off in Washington DC where LB took the band to some of the nation’s finest art galleries! He then bounced back to Madison WI to host the nEVEREST Tour with Halestorm, Lindsey Stirling, and Apocalyptica. While in town, Lou also took to time to photograph the former site of Smart Studios, where classic albums were recorded by the likes of Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, Garbage, and many others.

Upcoming shows and tours you can catch LB on include Mammoth, Tom Morello, AVATAR, and Seether.

Hit both the HardDriveRadio and LouBrutus socials to see the photos and videos!

ROCK FEST 2025

The lineup for Rock Fest 2025 has dropped and Lou Brutus will return as host! The shows run from Thursday July 17 to Saturday July 19 with a special Bonus Bash on Wednesday July 16 in Cadott, Wisconsin.

The stages will be jammed with incredible artists including Bad Omens, Three Days Grace, Five Finger Death Punch, Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie, Knocked Loose, Slaughter to Prevail, Architects, Crossfade, In This Moment, Nothing More, Poppy, We Came As Romans, Sick Puppies, The Funeral Portrait, Tim Montana, Mushroomhead, The Plot in You, Taproot, Cane Hill, Dead Poet Society, and dozens of others. The Bonus Bash will feature Eve 6, Drowning Pool, Born of Osiris, and others.

Lou will host onstage, interview bands backstage, and shoot the artists from the photo pit. It is one of the concert highlights for the United States each year and we hope to see you there!

Get more information and tickets here.

AVATAR IN GERMANY

Our friends in AVATAR were recently working on their forthcoming new album at a studio located in a castle just outside of Dresden, Germany and Lou Brutus was on hand for several days of recording. While there with the group, he also hosted a raucous Q&A live on their Instagram account!

The band is again working with legendary producer Jay Ruston. Basic tracks and vocals were done in Germany with additional vocals added in Helsinki, Finland. The plan for 2025 is to release a single by the end of the Spring with the full album dropping sometime in the Fall. The group will be on the road this Summer opening in Europe for Iron Maiden. They will then launch their biggest ever headlining tour in North America in late-October.

Lou wants to thank AVATAR, Jay, and the rest of the studio crew for the hospitality. Hit the socials for selections of images he shot of the band and the beautiful Saxony area of Germany while he was there.

IN DUST WE TRUST

Sevendust makes their triumphant return to the Epic Event Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin and Lou Brutus will be on hand as host. They are one of his favorite bands of all time and the entire evening promises to be filled with music and insanity.

The show is Friday March 07, 2025 with Horizon Theory as openers. Lou will hang for pictures and autographs ahead of the music. Bring your own stuff to be signed or grab a copy of his memoir “Sonic Warrior” at a special merch area to have personalized.

There will also be limited edition Lou Brutus and hardDrive Radio guitar picks and temporary tattoos. You will need to get these direct from LB, so find him early.

In Dust We Trust!

THE GREAT NORTH AMERICAN ECLIPSE

For the second time in seven-years, a total solar eclipse recently swept the United States and Lou Brutus was on hand to photograph the spectacle. Dubbed The Great North American Eclipse as it crossed from Mexico into the USA and then finally up into Canada, it was the last total eclipse in the lower forty-eight states until 2044.

After months of planning, LB flew into Columbus, Ohio the morning of the eclipse. He had chosen a spot just north of the city in Lewis Center, Ohio to set up his equipment. The location was picked as it got him far enough into the Path of Totality to see a total eclipse of one-minute and fifty-seven seconds, but not too far away from the airport as he needed to be on a flight back shortly after totality ended. The plan came off without a hitch and Lou was on-the-air according to schedule that night.

In the run up to the event, a number of news outlets used Lou’s eclipse photographs from 2017 in new articles including Yahoo Entertainment here.

There are three major eclipse events on the way in the coming years including Spain 2026, Egypt 2027, and Australia 2028. Lou his hoping to catch at least one of those. As he said shortly following totality in Ohio, “You have got to see a total solar eclipse at least once in your life. It will fill you with shock, awe, and a sense of wonder. It’s kinda like a Slipknot concert in that respect.”