Halestorm originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 & rescheduled to April 21st, 2021 is now CANCELEDHuntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Monday, March 15th @ 10am EST) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Halestorm - originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 & postponed until April 21st, 2021 - is now CANCELED. Refunds are now available at your point of purchase. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300 or visit paramountny.com. Halestorm originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 now rescheduled to April 21st, 2021 - Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Monday, July 20, 2020 @ 12pm EST) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Halestorm - originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 has been postponed until April 21st, 2021. No exchanges are required - all tickets from 4/22/20 will be valid for 4/21/21. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300....
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Halestorm originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 & rescheduled to April 21st, 2021 is now CANCELED
Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Monday, March 15th @ 10am EST) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Halestorm – originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 & postponed until April 21st, 2021 – is now CANCELED. Refunds are now available at your point of purchase. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300 or visit paramountny.com.
Halestorm originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 now rescheduled to April 21st, 2021 – Huntington, Long Island, N.Y. (Monday, July 20, 2020 @ 12pm EST) – Due to circumstances outside of our control, Halestorm – originally scheduled for April 22nd, 2020 has been postponed until April 21st, 2021. No exchanges are required – all tickets from 4/22/20 will be valid for 4/21/21. For any questions or concerns, you can call the venue at (631) 673-7300 or visit paramountny.com.
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. The musician didn’t feel like she was where she needed to be,
both professionally and personally. When she and her bandmates, Arejay Hale, Joe
Hottinger and Josh Smith, began writing, Lzzy wasn’t even sure who she was. “I
kept thinking, ‘Can I still do this?’” she says. “I went down a lot of rabbit
holes, and I’m my own worst critic. I needed to get over a lot of internal
hurdles during this writing and recording process. This record was about
overcoming inner demons.”
The band began writing, but the first batch of songs didn’t
feel quite right, so Halestorm scrapped it and started over. 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. It’s also
how Lzzy got her groove back. “I don’t think there was any other way for me to
get through that difficult time than to write about it,” she says. “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. 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.
“Nick pushed us from 10 to 11,” Lzzy says. “He pushed us
mentally and physically. There are some things on this record that I didn’t
think were physically possible for both myself and my bandmates. It was really
exciting to see that happen for the first time in the studio. To be able to
still surprise each other like that – and to surprise yourself – is no small
feat.”
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. In recent years, Halestorm has introduced improvised flashes into
their live sets with the idea of creating controlled chaos between the more
orchestrated songs. The music on Vicious embraces this sensibility. The
musicians worked to ensure that every song had its own dynamic feeling, both
overall and within each verse. “It wasn’t just about looping the same thing
over and over again,” Lzzy notes. “The idea was: Where can we take this that’s
not predicable?”
The resulting album, which was culled from over 20 recorded
tunes, solidifies everything Halestorm stands for as a band. It’s about empowerment,
an ideal that the musicians have encouraged for years, and the songs urge you
to be unapologetically yourself. Ultimately, it’s not just about being strong
and taking on the storm – but also about how you rise above that storm. The
album’s title comes from “Vicious,” a gritty, surging rock number that was
written during the last moments of studio time. The song features the line
“What doesn’t kill me makes me vicious,” a rallying cry to overcome any
obstacles. “It’s about being strong and fierce,” Lzzy says. “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. “You can’t please everybody as much as you may want to try,” Lzzy
says of the song. “By being yourself you may make people uncomfortable. I saw a
lot of our fans struggling with that. This song is saying that it’s okay to not
make everyone happy all the time. You can be yourself and that’s okay. And, in
fact, you should be proud of that.”
References to Halestorm’s fans and Lzzy’s constant
interactions with them online or on Twitter thread through the album. 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. “I feel like our fans deserve that type of openness from us at this
point,” she says. “The love they’ve given us comes full circle.”
Since their inception in 1998, Halestorm have toured
extensively with a diverse variety of artists, including Eric Church, Joan
Jett, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, ZZ Top and Evanescence.
They’ve played around 2,500 dates around the world to date, and performed at
festivals like Taste of Chaos and Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival. Most
recently, the band scored a 2019 Grammy nomination for “Best Rock Performance”
for “Uncomfortable,” marking their second after their 2013 win for “Best Hard
Rock/Metal Performance.” Loudwire named Lzzy their “2018 Rock Artist of the
Year,” last year, and two years prior, she was named the “Dimebag Darrell
Shredder of the Year” at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. Both Halestorm
and The Strange Case of… were certified Gold, further evidencing Halestorm’s massively
supportive fanbase. Halestorm have also made history: “Love Bites (So Do I),” the hit single from The
Strange Case of… ascended to No. 1 at Active Rock radio in the U.S., making
Halestorm the first-ever female-fronted group to earn the top spot on the
format.
Today Halestorm exists as a beacon of hope and inspiration
for musicians, particularly female musicians who want to brave the challenges
of the music industry. Lzzy has been a pioneer in rock and proven that women
have a place on the stage. Every night on tour, women – and men – in the
audience can look to her and realize they too have the power to carve out their
own path. Younger musicians admire her the same way she grew up admiring artists
like Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks. “They helped me feel like I could do it, and I
hope I’ve done the same for women today,” Lzzy says. “Trying to be my best self
and not trying to be anything I’m not and being unapologetic feels like a good
message. I feel a lot of responsibility to keep upholding that. I’m just trying
to be the best me.”
Two decades into an accomplished career, Halestorm
represents the results of true passion and hard work. The band has out-survived
many of its peers and the musicians are still having fun after all this time. Vicious
is evidence of a group of artists who refuse to ever plateau.
“This music chose us and we’re just hanging on,” Lzzy says.
“Our greatest accomplishment is that we’ve been the same members for over 15
years and we’re continuing to make and release music. We want to always try new
things. We’re still extremely hungry and open to opportunities, and we’re
hungry to prove we deserve to be here. We’re so lucky to still be a band and
have people care about our music. And there’s still so much more to do.”
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