Joseph Michael Poole (born August 12, 1976), better known by his stage name Wednesday 13, is an American singer and musician.

Joe Poole's musical career began in 1992 when he played guitar in his first band Mizery, which was later renamed Psycho Opera.

In 1996, Joe Poole decided to leave Maniac Spider Trash behind and formed the more punk inspired Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 with Doug McCollum (drums) and Robby McGalliard (bass).

In 1997, Ray Franks was invited to step in to carry the guitar duties and assumed the stage name Abby Normal.

The years that followed spawned many songs that would go on to become horror punk cult classics and many performances that left audiences entertained, shocked, and bewildered.

Because Wednesday 13 had written and produced every album by Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, he caught the attention of Joey Jordison from Slipknot.

Originally formed as a collaboration between Jordison and Tripp Eisen of Static-X and Dope, Poole became the driving force of the band after he moved from bass guitar to lead vocals.

Both Poole and Jordison maintained that the band did not split up for good, and that they would return to record a second album in the future.

[2] Poole returned to North Carolina in June 2004 and began to put together a more permanent band, with whom he would perform under the Wednesday 13 name.

The band is heavily influenced by KISS and Alice Cooper, while not straying far from Poole's previous horror punk projects.

In 2005, after touring, Poole released his first album Transylvania 90210,[3] and made a music video for the track "I Walked with a Zombie", depicting the band members in footage from the original Night of the Living Dead horror movie.

Also in 2005, they played on the main stage of the Download Festival at Donington and opened some shows for Alice Cooper around Halloween.

Poole left Roadrunner Records before signing a new deal with Rykodisc, with whom he released Fang Bang on September 12, 2006.

and the Japanese edition has the same track listing as the European CD, with a bonus song entitled "Good Day to Die".

During May 2011, Poole released a remix album/EP titled Re-Animated and announced that a portion of all sales for the first month would be donated to the American Red Cross.

Wednesday 13 was in contact with the former drummer Jeff Washam from Psycho Opera and was going to tour on the East Coast project.

Poole teamed up with Todd Youth of The Chelsea Smiles to write and record an album with a more glam rock sound and without any horror themes,[8] under the band name Gunfire 76.