A fun-loving hard rock/funk/alt-metal group from Southern California, Ugly Kid Joe found mainstream success in the early '90s with the double-platinum selling efforts As Ugly as They Wanna Be and America's Least Wanted. The band ceased operations in 1997 but re-formed in 2010 and released Uglier Than They Used ta Be in 2015. Seven years would pass before the arrival of the group's fifth full-length effort, 2022's raucous Rad Wings of Destiny.
Ugly Kid Joe (a spoof on glam-metal outfit Pretty Boy Floyd) formed in 1989 around vocalist Whitfield Crane, guitarists Klaus Eichstad...