YouTube Channel Profile Series: TheLateandLoud's Channel

It's now time for our last monthly feature post on the SMS for July 2025, namely this month's YouTube Channel Profile! This monthly feature looks at a randomly selected YouTube channel whose content is at least half devoted to local metal, hard rock, or punk artists/concerts, and this month, we're heading back 13-14 years in the time machine for a prominent local metal band's early YouTube content, so here's what you should know!

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TheLateandLoud's Channel (http://youtube.com/@TheLateandLoud)

Owner: A member of 2010-2014 local classic metal quartet Late & Loud, exact identity unclear (my best guess is guitarist Jonathan Tiberi based on who largely filmed their webseries episodes)

Channel Timeline: Launched on October 26th, 2010; Videos uploaded from that day until May 2012

Channel Summary: The official YouTube channel for Late & Loud, it features nine videos from their their first year & a half together, including the three episodes of their webseries, three live performance videos, and a clip of them during recording sessions for their EP.

Why You Should Watch: If you were a fan of this talented (yet too short-lived) 1980s metal throwback group, then you should get a kick out of their channel, especially as it captures things when they were on the local upswing and still had lots of big plans laid out! This channel was not used during their final two years as an active band and their posthumous activity, including their battle of the bands successes, their 2019 reunion gig, and their kinda-sorta revival via the Late & Legends podcast, but more videos from later projects are lurking online, including on their Facebook page.

 Our Recommended Videos To Check Out:

 

Late and Loud ep. 1: Upon their debut, Late & Loud launched a webseries on their channel featuring three episodes (though the third episode was broken up into three chunks) featuring the guys hanging out away from concerts. The first episode from October 2010 starts with guitarists Brendan Christie (now of Convergence) and Jonathan Tiberi (now of Hamilton's Astral Witch) picking up drummer Josh Hatherley so they can drive to St. Joseph Island to jam at bassist Benn Garside's place, but not before enjoying a bonfire and having some fun (and a few drinks) that night. Almost four minutes of this 10+ minute video is blacked out in a dark room, but this is some loose casual entertainment that fans and friends will get a kick out of! The following episodes feature more rural and largely outdoor antics, and while performances are not the focus, episode 3 part 1 does feature the guys covering a White Whizzard song, albeit instrumentally. 

 

Chylde of Fire - Cover: The most popular video on Late & Loud's channel sees them covering Witchcraft's "Chylde Of Fire" at Foggy Notions (now Coch's Corner) circa March 2011. Featuring Jon on lead vocals, this unexpected cover of the Swedish metal veterans comes off well, and while vocal abilities was always Late & Loud's Achilles heel, Jonathan handles this one as well as you can expect! For more cover action, the guys can be seen covering two Judas Priest songs in their last video from their set at the Dead In The Van fundraiser at The Canadian in March 2012, and it ends with two originals.

Recording session at the Tiberi Villa: The only video here that isn't a live concert recording or a webseries episode is this May 2012 video of Late & Loud relaxing at "the Tiberi Villa" in Gros Cap during recording sessions for their demo EP "Heavy Rockin' Hard Metal". Here, Brendan is behind the camera, with Jon attempting to make a boom mic handle out of objects at hand, while the rhythm section relax after a long night. Casual look at their DIY recording process, and if you're curious to hear that EP, click here for the extended 2013 "Still Hard" reissue!

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I hope you guys liked this month's YouTube Channel Profile! Next month, our latest randomly selected channel will be the YouTube Music channel for local "blue Chinese metal crash punk" quartet Sykotyk Rampage, featuring two of their studio albums, so look for that on or around August 26th, and for more news and notes on the site soon! Thanks everyone!