Metal Anarchy

During a recent appearance on The VORTX Podcast, Halestorm drummer Arejay Hale offered an update on the band’s new album. According to him, the group are hoping to release the effort in 2025.

Hale said the following:

“I’m hoping next year… We always say the same thing. It’s, like, it’ll be out when we’re done with it [laughs] and the whole process after it — getting it mixed, getting it mastered, getting the promotion campaign together and all that. There’s a lot to it. But the experience has been great ’cause we’re doing it in Savannah with [producer] Dave Cobb, and Dave Cobb is absolutely killing the game right now.”

He continued when asked about working with Cobb:

“It’s always good for a band to, if you want your sound to evolve, bring in some fresh minds into it. And the cool thing about Dave is that he’s a total hard rock and metalhead at heart. A lot of his most successful projects have been a lot of country, a lot of alternative — I mean, he’s all over the spectrum — so when works with us, you can tell… There’s a really great mutual respect between [us], ’cause we’ve been doing this long enough and he’s been doing it for so long. We’ve been a huge fan of his as well, so there’s a lot of mutual respect between the two of us, and you can feel it in the room.”

He also added the following when asked if the band have set a deadline for themselves:

“It used to be a lot more stringent in the early days. ‘Cause when you’re trying to get the band off the ground, you really wanna kind of keep that momentum going. But our last couple of records have been a little bit more laid back, which is nice. It kind of gives it room to breathe. It gives us time to like really assess where we wanna go. And definitely COVID changed everything.”

He also confirmed that the band prefer to work in person:

“Oh, it’s so much more effective for us to be in the same room. I think it kind of forces you to just… I guess we work well under pressure, ’cause, going back to your last question… We definitely feel the pressure to get the album out at a certain time, but what really cranks up the pressure is the fact that we’re leaving Nashville and going to Savannah for only a set period of time, ’cause Dave [only has certain] windows [of availability]. And it really forces us to just dig into your gut and just pull things out. And when we’re all together in the room and Joe [Hottinger] starts playing around with the riff and I start jamming with them, things just come out, things just happen. There’s a magic there.”

[via Blabbermouth]