![]() ![]() “The love they’ve given us comes full circle.” “I feel like our fans deserve that type of openness from us at this point,” she says. The musician, who calls the band’s fanbase “our comrades in this crazy life,” wanted to drop Easter eggs into the lyrics, reminding longtime listeners of past conversations or instances in Lzzy’s personal life they’ll likely remember. References to Halestorm’s fans and Lzzy’s constant interactions with them online or on Twitter thread through the album. And, in fact, you should be proud of that.” This song is saying that it’s okay to not make everyone happy all the time. I saw a lot of our fans struggling with that. “By being yourself you may make people uncomfortable. “You can’t please everybody as much as you may want to try,” Lzzy says of the song. ![]() “The climate of the world right now is always seeping in, so we wanted it to feel really positive and empowering.” “Uncomfortable,” one of the first songs written for the album, has a similar tone, featuring a rapid-fire verse and impressive vocal licks on the chorus. “It’s about being strong and fierce,” Lzzy says. The song features the line “What doesn’t kill me makes me vicious,” a rallying cry to overcome any obstacles. The album’s title comes from “Vicious,” a gritty, surging rock number that was written during the last moments of studio time. Ultimately, it’s not just about being strong and taking on the storm – but also about how you rise above that storm. It’s about empowerment, an ideal that the musicians have encouraged for years, and the songs urge you to be unapologetically yourself. The resulting album, which was culled from over 20 recorded tunes, solidifies everything Halestorm stands for as a band. “The idea was: Where can we take this that’s not predicable?” “It wasn’t just about looping the same thing over and over again,” Lzzy notes. The musicians worked to ensure that every song had its own dynamic feeling, both overall and within each verse. The music on Vicious embraces this sensibility. In recent years, Halestorm has introduced improvised flashes into their live sets with the idea of creating controlled chaos between the more orchestrated songs. One of the main goals in the studio was to capture real, human moments within the music, the sorts of unexpected instances that occur onstage. To be able to still surprise each other like that – and to surprise yourself – is no small feat.” It was really exciting to see that happen for the first time in the studio. There are some things on this record that I didn’t think were physically possible for both myself and my bandmates. “Nick pushed us from 10 to 11,” Lzzy says. Each song went through five or six versions, and ultimately carry the listener on a journey, emphasizing the band’s strengths while revealing a dynamic evolution. “This record was like therapy.” The album was recorded with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains and Rush) at Nashville, TN’s Rock Falcon recording studio, and the producer, with whom the band had previously worked with on their 2017 covers EP ReAniMate 3.0: The CoVeRs eP, pushed each musician to a new place musically. “I don’t think there was any other way for me to get through that difficult time than to write about it,” she says. And in the end, Vicious represents Halestorm’s most personal and most inventive album, a deeply lived-with collection of songs teaming with genuine heart and soul. The band began writing, but the first batch of songs didn’t feel quite right, so Halestorm scrapped it and started over. This record was about overcoming inner demons.” I needed to get over a lot of internal hurdles during this writing and recording process. “I went down a lot of rabbit holes, and I’m my own worst critic. “I kept thinking, ‘Can I still do this?’” she says. When she and her bandmates, Arejay Hale, Joe Hottinger and Josh Smith, began writing, Lzzy wasn’t even sure who she was. ![]() The musician didn’t feel like she was where she needed to be, both professionally and personally. Self-doubt and depression clawed at the edges of Lzzy Hale’s mind when it came time to pen Halestorm’s fourth album, a follow-up to 2015’s Into The Wild Life. ![]()
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