Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with The Sound Lab, Halestorm’s Josh Smith revealed that the band are “working on new music.” However, release plans are still pending.

Smith said the following when asked if work has commenced on the band’s next album:

“Yes, it has. When we were just home, we spent a week with someone who I’m not sure I’m at liberty to say. So I’m just gonna keep it hush for now. I try my best not to speak out of turn, which means I usually don’t speak a lot. But yes, we’re working on new music.

There’s been a lot of rehearsing and preparing for [the current European shows], but it’s fun to sort of couple [that with writing] when you are in this mindset, because then you are thinking about what would be effective in front of a crowd. Yeah, it’s been really productive, and some ideas have just popped out, which is exciting. They’re cool, which means we’ve still got it. [Laughs]”

He also added the following about the writing process:

“It happens every which way. This last time we were all involved. But it started with this little melody line that Lzzy [Hale] had. That was it. It was just this idea that could potentially be a melody line and an idea for a chorus, maybe. So we went with it, and it popped out really quick.

But, yeah, truly, [it happens] any and every which way. I could be playing something on the piano or Lzzy or Joe [Hottinger] plays a riff and [we go], ‘Oh, that’s cool.’ It’s just, like, anything goes. We just try to spend a lot of time together so we can sort of bottle that spontaneous magic.”

[via Blabbermouth]